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Hi, |
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I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this |
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weekend. |
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Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. |
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The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' |
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there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card |
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and bringing the link up. |
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The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an |
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``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights |
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turn both off for about one second and then both on again. |
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I see the link coming up in the log and in dmesg. |
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Trying to ping some address I get "network unreachable". The network |
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connection itself works. This is tested with another (Acer) notebook. |
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Due to the fact that there are a couple of messages about disconnecting |
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and connecting PCI devices in the log I'm wondering about a hardware |
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problem. |
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Well this all don't happen with Gentoo. Acer (fortunately) has a "Linpus |
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Linux" installed on delivery. So I have a means to do some recovery. |
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I've tried this of course with the Gentoo install CD too. Further on |
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I've tried Knoppix, Mandrake, SuSe, Ubuntu and Fedora. |
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I know I've seen some messages about Acer notebooks on this list. |
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Unfortunately I cannot search the archives without a network connection. |
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My chief tolerates if I'm writing a mail during working time. I'm afraid |
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he won't tolerate me spending hours searching something private on the |
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WEB. |
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If someone knows about issues with the sis900.c module please let me |
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know. |
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Thanks in advance |
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Frank |
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PS: ... and yes, I did RTFM ``menuconfig'' points to. ;) |
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