[KLUG Members] network issues

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:35, Benjamin Stuart wrote:
> dmesg output:
> PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
> eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11, [mac]
> eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
> *note: initially the USB hub and the NIC were being given 
> the same IRQ (11).  I disabled the USB hub in BIOS, so 
> there shouldnt be any IRQ-sharing issues...
> *note: this is an onboard NIC from a K7S5A motherboard.  
> the manual gives absolutely no more information about it 
> other than that its 100Mbps.

The SiS900 has varied support in older Linux kernels.  SiS is being much
more "pro-active" in its support in newer kernels.  It seems to work
_flawlessly_ in kernel 2.4.18 -- including the RedHat Rawhide kernels
(latest is 2.4.18-0.19).

It also seems to work in RedHat's 2.4.9-31 kernel release (which is part
of RedHat's 7.2 updates), but I've had disconnections when running in
100Mbps or auto-negotiate mode.

-- Bryan

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