Fedora Core 1, sis900 and averatec laptop

[Peter L. Hurd]

Dear lcchang,

I'm trying to get my sis900 equipped laptop (Averatec 3120V) to network
under Fedora Core 1.  Networking worked the very first time I booted
after installing FC1, but hasn't worked since.

I've seen some mention of this problem with "eth0: Media Link Off" with
other linux distributions and I'm wondering if this is the bug "3) The
media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet by
ifconfig causes the media link down." mentioned in the driver code.

Here's the output from dmesg:

sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: ICS LAN PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:40:45:11:3e:4c.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 292 bytes per
conntrack
sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: ICS LAN PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:40:45:11:3e:4c.
eth0: Media Link Off

Best Regards,
-P.

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Peter L. Hurd                                  Department of Psychology
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