Re: [PLUG] sis900 (sos!)

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:34:12PM -0500, Time said:
> Under Debian stable, I have the 2.4.18-686 kernel-image (w/ initrd)
> running in hopes that it would provide working sis900 on-board lan
> chipset support. Unfortunately, its not working. Output from modprobe:
> 
> 
> r2d2:/lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers# modprobe sis900
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o: init_module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/net/sis900.o: insmod sis900 failed
> 
> 
> : Am I missing something? It is enabled in the bios and it does function
> under Win2k (on partition /dev/hda1) Thanks in advance.

If you are sure that's the right module (you can check what the kernel
thinks of your card with lspci, and cross-reference with
/usr/src/linux/Documentation, although you probably know that (^: ) try
modprobe instead of insmod - it's much smarter about loading, and will
load other modules if needed.

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