Re: problem with sis900 driver 2.6.5 +

From: mike
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 05:24:22 EST


On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 21:50 -0300, Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:
> > In kernels 2.6.5 and above (may affect 2.6.4 as well) there seems to be
> > a problem with the sis900 eth driver
> >
> > I have a sis chipset with integrated ethernet sis900 driver which has
> > always worked perfectly up to and including 2.6.3 (fedora)
> >
> > Now with both fedora 2.6.5 kernel and vanilla 2.6.6 eth0 does not come
> > up
> >
> > relevant messages
> >
> > sis900 device eth0 does not appear to be present delaying initialisation
> >
> > and from dmesg eth0: cannot find ISA bridge
> >
> > 2.6.3 works fine
> >
> > lsmod shows sis and sis900 modules loaded fine
> I had the same problem, the patch attached is a dirty fix to get it
> running again. in newer kernels its isa bridge is listed with a different
> product id (0x0018). no idea why.
>

this works fine - thanks

> --
> Aristeu
>
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