[sclug] SiS onboard LAN troubles

[James Fidell]

As luck would have it, I built a new desktop box for myself last night,
based around a P4 motherboard with a SiS 900 on-board LAN device.

It's enabled in the BIOS, but win98 (which I install so I can use it
from VMware) couldn't see it at all, even after I'd installed the drivers
that came with the motherboard.

RH8.0 kind of knows the card's there (it asked for network config. and
put the relevant bits in /etc/modules.conf at install time), but now
staunchly refuses to do anything with it when the driver's loaded.
Kudzu knows it's there though.

Most odd.

Anyway, to save a lot of messing about, I fixed the problem by turning
it off in the BIOS and sticking in a 3c905C that I had sitting around.

James