Re: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 2:44 pm, Chan Siu On wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I
> have no idea how to install the module properly.
> I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select
> sis900 module from "modconf"->"net", insmod complains that the selected
> device or resource is busy and installation fails. It says that I/O or IRQ
> may not be configured properly. I try to add "io=0xcc00 irq=05" as the
> command line arguments, it then says that parm_io is invalid. However, the
> ethernet adapter is found in `cat /proc/pci`, therefore Linux must have
> detected the adapter.
> Does anyone have any idea?
>
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I had a similar experience trying to set up a Clevo 2700C. There are several
versions of the sis900.o module floating around, and the only ones that work
are the 2.4.x kernel ones. As far as I can tell for many 900s the old module
does not work properly, and the new module is 2.4 only.
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