[Wylug-help] SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I've got an Advent 5372 laptop with what MS Windows detects as a 'SIS 900 PCI
Fast Ethernet Adapter'.

When I had RH7.3 on the NIC was detected straight out of the box and worked
fine.  When I replaced this wic FC1 everything looked fine, with it finding
the card okay and allowing me to configure it.

However, there's absolutely no traffic happening with the card (booting to
windows proves the card, cable etc work).

my /etc/modules.conf has the line

alias eth0 sis900

and lsmod includes sis900, sis and sisfb

Everything looks fine, as shown here.

[root at localhost root]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.2.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         10.2.1.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
[root at localhost root]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:C5:9D:7E
          inet addr:10.2.1.7  Bcast:10.2.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:18690 (18.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000

[root at localhost root]# ping 10.2.1.7
PING 10.2.1.7 (10.2.1.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.357 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.258 ms

--- 10.2.1.7 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 2007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.258/0.307/0.357/0.052 ms, pipe 2
[root at localhost root]# ping 10.2.1.1
PING 10.2.1.1 (10.2.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.