On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:47:51 +0100 Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > do you have anything in your kernel logs that looks like: > > > > ... Error EERPOM read ... > > > > ? i remember a fellow on another list i'm on had a problem with > > his sis900 card too, it was a bad eeprom that returned bogus values. > > I am not the guy you talk about, but with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said: > sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 > eth0: Error EERPOM read ffff > > I was told, that the reason was the driver not able to read the mac > address on the card. I had to update to kernel 2.4.20 and switch ACPI > off to get sis900 running. (The ACPI stuff seems to be related to my > motherboard). > I never had a problem with that - used kernels between 2.2.19 to 2.4.20 Dhcp has very rarely problems - only time it didn't work at all was with the 'testing netinstall' CD's from debian and it is flakey with mandrake and libranet 2.0. But no kernel errors.Of course I can't vouch for the failing 'testing netinstall' but 'insmod sis900' doesn't report any trouble there. Regular netinstall(boot.iso) works fine. There seem to be a lot of different revisions of sis900 out there.So everybody is probably talking about a different problem. I installed at least 10 different distros over the last year and never had a kernel related problem with my sis900. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]