Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:31:10 +0700 | From | Brian Durant <> | Subject | Newbie with SiS 900 NIC driver, SuSE 8.1 and Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC. |
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Please personally CC the answers/comments posted to the list in response to my posting, as I am not a list member. I have tried getting the SiS 900 driver to run on SuSE 7.3, (and now) 8.1, Mandrake 8, 8.1, 9, Debian 3 rev.1 as well as running the latest Knoppix, none of which has been successful. Being a newbie and having only an interest in this one issue that I have never been able to resolve, I really don't belong on the list either. However, I believe that there is either a bug in the driver or my configuration is not supported. Either way, I would like to get the issue cleared up.
Anyway, to the issue at hand. There is a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC connected to my home WAN/LAN that I have been trying to get to work with the SiS 900 driver. The box has a SiS 900 NIC built into a Biostar motherboard and uses an Award BIOS. The WAN/LAN consists of 4 computers connected to a LinkSys router and a 3 Com cable modem. All other computers are able to connect to the Internet through auto DHCP, including one that is a dual boot Win2k Pro and SuSE 8.1 box. The Celvin is neither able to connect through auto DHCP or with a static IP address. I have checked the physical connection using a USB to Ethernet adapter and Knoppix, so I know the problem doesn't lie there. The SiS 900 NIC itself, works fine under Win 98 SE. This seems to me to rule out a number of things. Using SuSE 8.1, I have tried:
su hwinfo --network_ctrl
Included in the info that came back was the following:
Revision: 0 x 01 Driver status: active Config status: cfg=yes avail=yes need=no
I have found a couple of lines in /var/log/boot.msg that are of relevance as well. With auto DHCP, the message says "DHCP no IP address yet... backgrounding". When set to static IP, the boot.msg lists eth0 with the correct IP address and subnet mask and that is it.
I don't want to confuse the issue as I am using SuSE 8.1 at this time however, I think it is also worth noting that with Debian 3 rev. 1 installed, the output of # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.111 was:
eth0 Media Link Off.
The result of "$ ping 216.239.57.100" was:
Network is unreachable
I understand if you don't want to help me with my own personal configuration problems, but it would be nice to know if there is a bug in the driver or if my configuration is unsupported.
Cheers,
Brian Durant
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