Re: SiS900 configuration problem
MCA-support is turned off!!!
On Wednesday 25 July 2001 18:43, you wrote:
> Franz Keferbvck wrote:
> > XAIPETE! I have an IPC Top H Notebook with the "famous" SiS chipset
> > which is in several new laptops (gericom, ipc, ...). I had no problems
> > installing Debian on it, but since I updated to woody i have a big
> > problem with my SiS900 network device! The hardware is found by the
> > kernel without any problem, but when the System "Configures the
> > network devices" the whole boot-process stops for about a minute and
> > the kernel says "Media Link Off". Then everything goes on as it should
> > - but ONE minute delay on a laptop is a very long time (its being
> > booted and halted several times a day!).This brehavior is new to me,
> > but it appears with kernel 2.2.19pre as well as 2.4.3!Can anybody help
> > me solve the problem and "speed up" my boot-time??? ThanxFranz
> > Keferbvck
>
> Well I had a similar problem which meant that I could not use Debian
> with a 2.2.19 kernel
> with a sis900 on a Clevo 2700C. This was because the stock kernel was
> built with MCA
> support and it tried to find a serial port in the middle of the Ethernet
> ioports, and thought
> it had succeeded and then refused to allocate the addresses to the
> Ethernet port. The
> symptom was that it allocates ttyS44 at address 0x3220. This problem
> has been
> reported and Alan Cox has put in a fix (which might be in 2.4.7 I am not
> sure, it was in
> one of his 2.4.6-ac builds) which stops it looking for MCA ports if this
> is not an MCA
> box.
>
> The fix is to define a device at /dev/ttyS44 with the appropriate major
> minor numbers
> and then in interfaces put a "pre" command to setserial ttyS44 port 0
> irq 0 which
> disables the serial port and frees the address range.
>
> However this may not be your exact problem.
>
> David
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