Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>]

sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> writes:

> do you have anything in your kernel logs that looks like:
>
> ... Error EERPOM read ...
>
> ?  i remember a fellow on another list i'm on had a problem with
> his sis900 card too, it was a bad eeprom that returned bogus values.

I am not the guy you talk about, but with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said:
sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001
eth0: Error EERPOM read ffff

I was told, that the reason was the driver not able to read the mac address
on the card. I had to update to kernel 2.4.20 and switch ACPI off to get
sis900 running.  (The ACPI stuff seems to be related to my motherboard).

Robert