Re: ASUS motherboard
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 08:22, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> I've been trying to install Debian (Woody) on a machine built around
> an Asus P4S533-E motherboard. I'm using the vf-2.4 kernel-flavor.
>
> The problem I'm having is with the onboard LAN controller.
>
> It's listed among the PCI controllers at the initial stage of the boot
> process (assigned IRQ 5) and lspci can find it and reports:
>
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
>
> I'm trying to use the eepro100 driver, but the interface cannot be
> brought up. I get NO SUCH DEVICE error messages, and this in dmesg:
>
> eth0: EEPROM read 0
>
> I installed (and run) Debian testing on a machine with an ASUS P4S533
> with no difficulties whatever, using the eepro100 driver.
>
> Does anyone know what might be different between the P4S533 and the
> P4S533-E that could be at the root of this difficulty?
>
> I saw a reference to what looks like the same problem on a SuSe
> web-site, and it suggested that a patched kernel was needed. The
> information and advice was very specific to SuSe however.
>
> Might the sis900 driver be a better choice?
>
Definitely.
I have an ASUS board with a sis900 on board LAN card. I don't actually
use the pre-compiled kernels that you can apt-get and instead compile my
own. However, I had absolutely no problems with this ethernet on board
device. I just compiled the sis900 driver as a module and modprobed it
and it worked.
What I would suggest is the following:
1. Check if your kernel has compiled support for sis900 driver. You can
do this by trying to modprobe sis900. If that doesn't work then grep
through the config file for the kernel you are running like:
grep -i 'sis900' /boot/config-2.4.20 (or whatever your kernel version
is). You should see something like:
CONFIG_SIS900=m or CONFIG_SIS900=y
2. If your kernel doesn't have support for the sis900 device then you
can compile your own kernel with the support.
The sis900 ethernet card worked great on my ASUS system.
Cheers.
Mark.
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