Re: ASUS motherboard

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both
suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus
P4S533-E.

I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900
(with modprobe or with insmod or with kerneld) produces:

  eth0: Error EERPOM read 0
  sis900.o: init_module: No such device

Those of you who have got the LAN on this motherboard to work with the
sis900 driver, are you sure that this is the Asus P4S533-E (rather
than the Asus P4S533). The SiS900 chipset on the E-model is at
revision 91, while on the plain P4S533 it's at revision 90. Would you
mind running lspci and seeing if it has:

 SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90)   (this is the P4S533)

or:

 SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)   (this is the P4S533-E)

My suspicion is growing that the problem is one of defective
hardware. When we did the install, the installation procedure couldn't
even detect that there was an ethernet adapter anywhere on the system
(at the `Configure the Network' point). Isn't that a sign that there
is some hardware problem?

The rest of the install was beautifully smooth,

Jim