Re: [gentoo-user] SiS 900 Fast Ethernet Adapter and Gentoo

[Frank Schafer]

Thanks,

that makes me a lot more serene. :))

Frank

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:36 +0200, Sandy McGuffog wrote:
> Frank,
>
> The SiS 900 works fine for me on 100 Mbps without any specific
> ifconfig instructions, so should work for you unless Acer have it in a
> (very) non-default configuration.
>
> Note however that when you compile the kernel, you do need to change
> the config to include SiS 900 support, it's not included by default.
>
> Can't help on the graphics.
>
> On 8/11/05, Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@×××××××××.cz> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to
> > ask this again.
> >
> > I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the
> > graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up.
> >
> > I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the (preinstalled)
> > Linpus Linux has messages about PCI bus faults in the syslog. I still
> > haven't the notebook back but ...
> >
> > ... I'm sort of nervous. I've Googled a bit about SiS and found a lot of
> > posts reporting the SiS chipset working on RedHat, SuSe, Debian ... and
> > some posts this chipset NOT to work on Gentoo.
> >
> > Well, most of the posts I found are 2 to 3 years old. Maybe this isn't
> > an issue at all furthermore.
> >
> > Has someone got this to work? My provider gives me a 100Mbps FD link. In
> > the kernel documentation there is still this:
> >
> >  3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet
> > by ifconfig causes the media link down.
> >
> > Will I have to do a ``mii-tool -a 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD'' before being
> > able to use this NIC?
> >
> > I found:
> > /*
> >  * SiS
> > 300/630/730/540/315/550/[M]650/651/[M]661[FM]X/740/[M]741[GX]/330/[M]760[GX]
> >
> > in /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis.
> >
> > Due to this and reading the information on: http://www.winischhofer.net/
> > the graphics should'nt be an issue, should it?
> >
> > Excuse me my impatience but I'd like to install some Linux as soon as I
> > get the machine back ... and I'd prefer Gentoo (using the NIC ;) over
> > Fedora (using Click'nClay with Anaconda)
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Frank
> >
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> >
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