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Hi all, |
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I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to |
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ask this again. |
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I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the |
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graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up. |
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I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the (preinstalled) |
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Linpus Linux has messages about PCI bus faults in the syslog. I still |
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haven't the notebook back but ... |
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... I'm sort of nervous. I've Googled a bit about SiS and found a lot of |
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posts reporting the SiS chipset working on RedHat, SuSe, Debian ... and |
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some posts this chipset NOT to work on Gentoo. |
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Well, most of the posts I found are 2 to 3 years old. Maybe this isn't |
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an issue at all furthermore. |
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Has someone got this to work? My provider gives me a 100Mbps FD link. In |
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the kernel documentation there is still this: |
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3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet |
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by ifconfig causes the media link down. |
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Will I have to do a ``mii-tool -a 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD'' before being |
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able to use this NIC? |
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I found: |
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* SiS |
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300/630/730/540/315/550/[M]650/651/[M]661[FM]X/740/[M]741[GX]/330/[M]760[GX] |
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in /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis. |
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Due to this and reading the information on: http://www.winischhofer.net/ |
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the graphics should'nt be an issue, should it? |
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Excuse me my impatience but I'd like to install some Linux as soon as I |
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get the machine back ... and I'd prefer Gentoo (using the NIC ;) over |
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Fedora (using Click'nClay with Anaconda) |
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Regards |
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Frank |
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