SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Tue Apr 27 13:38:56 UTC 2004


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>





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