Re: Re: Problems with sis900 after upgrading to 2.4.20
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:40, demslh wrote:
> > sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
> > > PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
> > > eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> > > eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> > > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11,
> 00:d0:09:fe:58:6e.
> > > [drm] AGP 0.99 on SiS @ 0xd0000000 64MB
> > > [drm] Initialized r128 2.2.0 20010917 on minor 0
> > > eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
> > >
> > > ********
> > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:09:FE:58:6E
> > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > > RX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> > > RX bytes:15777 (15.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400
> > >
>
>
> It looks like your NIC is working, but not picking up an IP address. Do
> you use DHCP to give out addresses? i had a problem similar to this when
> i compiled my own kernel, because i forgot to select something in the
> kernel. this meant that DHCP wouldn't work. trouble is, i have a memory
> like a seive, and i cant remember what it was you need.
>
> try doing
> ifconfig eth0 [IP address you want]
>
> and see if that gets your networking working.
>
>
> Ian
>
>
Does not help. :-( I have DSL connection at home. I am not sure but I
guess pppoeconf use to configure DHCP. I looked around in the kernel but
did not find any option for DHCP. If I boot off a Kernel-2.2.20 floppy,
I get the network running without any problem.
Punit
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