Re: Integrated ethernet on SiS chipset doesn't work

From: Daniele Venzano
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 03:33:11 EST


On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:42:36PM +0200, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> Here is the interesting part of his dmesg, after reloading the
> sis900 driver. We can see that the card
> indentifies a VIA transceiver at address 1 but instead uses the
> (inexistent) one at address 31.

> eth0: VIA 6103 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
...
> eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 31.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 31 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xe800, IRQ 11, 00:0c:76:68:a9:89.

This behaviuor should be corrected in tha latest kernels (mm or bk) by
the patches available here:
http://teg.homeunix.org/sis900.html

If all fails this patch should work just fine:
http://teg.homeunix.org/download/kpatches/sis900-list-phy-ids.diff
But is just for that particular case.


--
-----------------------------
Daniele Venzano
Web: http://teg.homeunix.org

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/