SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Tue Apr 27 14:05:32 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:38, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:20, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> > 
> > I've got an Advent 5372 laptop with what MS Windows detects as a 'SIS 900 PCI 
> > Fast Ethernet Adapter'.
> > 
> > When I had RH7.3 on the NIC was detected straight out of the box and worked 
> > fine.  When I replaced this wic FC1 everything looked fine, with it finding 
> > the card okay and allowing me to configure it.
> > 
> > However, there's absolutely no traffic happening with the card (booting to 
> > windows proves the card, cable etc work).
> > 
> > my /etc/modules.conf has the line
> > 
> > alias eth0 sis900
> > 
> > and lsmod includes sis900, sis and sisfb
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> > -- 
> > Gary Stainburn
> >  
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> What does route -n and ifconfig indicate? Can the card ping itself. I
> have the same adapter in my firewall/gateway as eth0 (Ext IF) running
> FC1. It upgraded without any issues from RH9.0.
> -- 
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
Let me add my FW/GW is a desktop system.-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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