Re: sis900 problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:32:35PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> (Please CC, I'm not subscribed to the list)
> 
> I had a working GRUB boot floppy which loaded a Linux kernel over the
> network and booted it, and life was grand.  However, I've upgraded the
> motherboard in that system, and this one has an onboard LAN interface
> (sis900) that I'd like to use.  So I rebuilt grub with the sis900 driver
> (using CVS from 2002/08/23), installed it on my floppy, and I get:
> 
> Found SIS900 at 0xd400, ROM address 0xff00
> Probing...[SIS900]sis900_probe: Error EERPOM[sic] read 0000
> sis900_probe: Error MAC address not found
> [the same thing repeated]
> 
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
> I had been using this particular motherboard in a different machine, and its
> onboard LAN worked fine with the Linux sis900 driver.

I noticed that there is a new etherboot out (5.0.7), which includes an
updated sis900 driver from Linux 2.4.17.  I very crudely hacked this updated
driver into grub, and it gets much closer to success, but still fails:

Probing...[SIS900]Found SIS900 ROM address 0xff00

sis900_probe: MAC addr 00:D0:09:E4:99:EE at ioddr 0XD400
sis900_probe: Vendor:0X1039 Device:0X0900
sis900_probe: AMD 79C901 10BASE-T PHY transceiverfound at address 1.
sis900_probe: Using AMD 79C901 10BASE-T PHY as default
amd79c901_read_mode: Media Link On 10mbps full-duplex

Error 12: Invalid device requested

So I imagine that this could work if etherboot 5.0.7 were correctly merged
in.  Are there any plans or work in progress in this area, or shall I give
it a try?

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 - mdz