[Gllug] Network/Ethernet problems

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Tue Aug 26 00:41:06 UTC 2003 

it sems from dmesg that your card is there,

what distro are you using? are you using dhcp?

if you simply want static addressing, you can use ifconfig to configure the
card


On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:45:31PM +0100, ted.bell wrote:
> I am having some problems setting this machine up as part of a home network. 
> There is an onboard sis900 network card which works fine in windose!
> 
> I have taken out the firewire card which was sharing the interup but I am 
> still unable to see the card. I have gone through the Ethernet howto but I 
> suspect the problem is with the driver. I have found lots of stuff about the 
> driver but no idiots guide on installing it!
> 
> I have attached an output from Dmesg and the outputs from cat dev and cat 
> interupts.
> 
> Ted
> edward at family:~$ cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
>  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:    5122      78    0    0    0     0          0         0     5122      78    0    0    0     0
> 0          0
>   eth0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0
> 0          0

> edward at family:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
>            CPU0
>   0:      99637          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       1106          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   5:      24432          XT-PIC  cmpci
>   8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>  10:        109          XT-PIC  usb-ohci
>  12:      21647          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  14:      22295          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:          5          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:          0

> Linux version 2.4.20 (root at midas) (gcc version 3.2.2) #4 Mon Mar 17 22:08:41 PST 2003
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000e000000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 224MB LOWMEM available.
> On node 0 totalpages: 57344
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 53248 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=303
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 902.039 MHz processor.
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 1795.68 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 223640k/229376k available (1872k kernel code, 5348k reserved, 610k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 128K
> CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 0a
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
> PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 14 for device 00:0f.0
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xce80d000, size 32768k
> vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a3d0
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
> Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
> PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 14 for device 00:0f.0
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 194
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 2B020H1, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> hdc: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> blk: queue c03b7784, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hda: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63, UDMA(33)
> blk: queue c03b7ac8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hdc: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77545/16/63, UDMA(66)
> hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3 hda4
>  hdc: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdc1
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
> Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
> md: linear personality registered as nr 1
> md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
> md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
> md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
>    8regs     :  1492.400 MB/sec
>    32regs    :   895.200 MB/sec
>    pIII_sse  :  1848.800 MB/sec
>    pII_mmx   :  2023.200 MB/sec
>    p5_mmx    :  2111.200 MB/sec
> raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1848.800 MB/sec)
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:03) ...
> Using r5 hash to sort names
> ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
> Adding Swap: 586332k swap-space (priority -1)
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:04) ...
> Using r5 hash to sort names
> ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
> parport0: device reported incorrect length field (61, should be 62)
> parport0 (addr 0): SCSI adapter, IMG VP1
> parport0: device reported incorrect length field (67, should be 69)
> parport0: Printer, Lexmark ExecJet IIc
> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
> PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:0e.0
> eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 3, 00:d0:09:d0:40:df.
> cmpci: version $Revision: 5.64 $ time 15:37:53 Mar 11 2003
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0c.0
> cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xd800 irq 5
> cmpci: chip version = 039
> cmpci: Enable SPDIF loop
> usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> usb.c: registered new driver hub
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:02.0
> usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd09e8000, IRQ 10
> usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller
> usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> hub.c: USB hub found
> hub.c: 2 ports detected
> hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 2
> usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x207) is not claimed by any active driver.
> usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
> usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
> usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
> uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>   Vendor: HP        Model: CD-Writer+ 8200f  Rev: 1.0A
>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
> imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 16 bit
> imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use SPP
> imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using SPP
> scsi1 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
>   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: P.05
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
>  sda: sda4
> cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

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