[Wylug-help] SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> 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.
> >From 10.2.1.7 icmp_seq=0 Destination Host Unreachable
> >From 10.2.1.7 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
> >From 10.2.1.7 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> --- 10.2.1.1 ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4287ms
> , pipe 4
> [root at localhost root]# iptables -L
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> [root at localhost root]#
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix it?

The sis900 driver should report link status changes to syslog.  Is it?
There's always a debug option to turn on for the module to make it a bit more
verbose which might be revealing?

jh

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