Fedora FC2 and SIS 900 ethernet controller

[rjhewitt]

Ok so I broke down and installed Fedora FC2 but I can't get the ethernet driver to work I have tried everything I can think of and no luck. I can't remove the NIC because it is onboard and no open PCI slots are avaliable. can't remove anything because the video (PCI) and SCSI controllers (PCI) are needed to make this server work. the SCSI is the main drive controller and also controls the Tape Drive (and yes I do use the tape drive). is there a better module that I can load for the ethernet or should I just junk the box for something better.



RObert
If it's new smash it
If it's old Trash it
If it's Microsoft just run from it

[rjhewitt]

the nic worked with the RedHat 9 disto that I installed on the same system as before, and the first attempt to upgrade was to upgrade redhat 9 the network was not working so I tried a fresh install so at this point I have no Idea what to try to do next



Robert

[Shrekkie]

I believe you need the EthernetExpress Pro 100 , the module eepro100.
Can you paste here an output of "lsmod"and maybe a "dmesg | grep eth".

Cheers

[rjhewitt]

That didn't do the trick either, apparentl there is a problem with the sis 900 and it hasa been this way befor with the older Redhat 7.3 that was corrected in 8.0 and 9.0 it seems that the problem has returned again. DOes anybody understand what is going on I went to bugzilla and found a bur report about it. how do I get hold of the people who found what went wrong and what they did to fix it. here is the report #70927 and then again at # 122089



any help would be appreceated.



RObert

[Shrekkie]

ok Gimme the next ouput from the next commands (in a shell) :

1. #lspci
2. #lsmod
3. #ifconfig

Then we'll be able to give further help. I have myself an k7s5a mobo with the sis900 chipset running under slack.

Greetz,

[rjhewitt]

DOn't worry I decided that I would just make some hardware changes and then reinstall so it works



RObert