Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ECS DeskNote A929 (i-Buddie XP) (Kernel 2.4.18 & 2.4.19rc3) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 22 Jul 2002 13:35:18 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 10:29, Dave Humphreys wrote: > I have just aquired an ECS DeskNote A929 (i-Buddie XP). This > machine is supposed to be based on: > SiS 740 North Bridge > SiS 961 South Bridge > with integrated network interface (and graphics and other features). > > I found that I could not make the kernel detect the network > card, despite the fact that I had built support for 'SiS 900/7096' > into the kernel. > > I found a patch which identified a need to add the SiS 740 and > SiS 961 into pci.ids, and which suggested that this was all that was > necessary to make the 740/961 work. > > I find that my kernel does not create /proc/pci which suggests > to me something quite fundamental. > > I ran lspci -H2 and I get: > > 00:04.0 Class 000e: 00c1:0000 > 00:08.0 Class 000e: 00c1:0000 > 00:0c.0 Class 0000: 0040:0000 > > The 0000 class code worries me, as do the vendor and device ID's. > > The machine came with a 'ThizLinux' CD which has 2.4.18 kernel, > so someone has made it work, but I don't have the sources.
The GPL license requires they provide you the sources to the GPL'd code at cost. If they fail to do so they are violating copyright law.
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