SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 6:50 pm, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:48, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > However, the ping problem confuses me.
> >
> > I can ping myself 10.2.1.7) which tell me that the IP stack is working
> > and that the card's been recognised right?
>
> Verify that the host isn't dropping or not getting your pings for some
> reason, such as an intermediate gateway.

I think I've confused things here. 10.2.1.7 is the IP address of the laptop. 
It's not going out over the wire. 10.2.1.1 was the remote host I was trying.

>
> > I don't know what the broadcast ping proves though, and when I try to
> > ping a remote host, or from another box try to ping my laptop it doesn't
> > work. Surely, this is still an IP related issue.
> >
> > > 2) Is there another Linux box to check for configuration information?
>
> I don't know how 'skilled' you are with Linux so I assumed nominal
> knowledge.
>
> > How do you mean check the config? If you mean the IP settings, they're
> > correct and match all the other boxes I have.  I did statr off with dhcp
> > enabled, but changed it to manual settings when that didn't work
> > initially.
> >
> > If you mean card settings, then I can't help as I don't have another box
> > with a SIS900 card in.
> >
> > > > --- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics ---
> > > > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
> > > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2
> > > > [root at localhost root]# uname -a
> > > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51
> > > > EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > > > [root at localhost root]#
> > > > [gary at gary gary]$
>
> I suspect that there is something strange going on here. I do know when
> running RH6.2 I had to download and compile the SIS drivers from their
> web site. This would be the only option I see at this point.
> BTW the only module my modules.conf shows for this card is sis900.
>  --
> jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>

Now I'm confused.  I'm at a different site today, but plugging into the same 
make/model switch, and everything's working fine.  I'm currently running 
up2date quite happily.

I would now suspect the switch I was using yesterday except that my dual-boot 
laptop was working fine yesterday in Windows.

Anyone got any ideas on why this would be, and how I can fix it - other than 
replacing the switch.
-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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