Re: [PLUG] sis900 (sos!)

[Time <time@clockbot.net>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:52:10PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> If you are sure that's the right module (you can check what the kernel
> thinks of your card with lspci

r2d2:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0648 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0963 (rev 04)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] OHCI Compliant FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 (GeForce3) (rev a3)

and from dmesg:

Nov 17 18:10:59 r2d2 kernel: sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001
Nov 17 18:10:59 r2d2 kernel: eth0: Error EERPOM read ffff


> and cross-reference with /usr/src/linux/Documentation,

doing that now.

> although you probably know that (^: )

yes, but I do appreciate your reminding me 8)

> try modprobe instead of insmod - it's much smarter about loading, and will
> load other modules if needed.

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to tell modproe where the
device is located since it seems to be looking (and failing) at ffff
which, according to bc is address 00 on the pci bus, which is returning
in lspci as an unknow device.




-- 
Regards,

Time



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