OK.....At least for me, this is not new... I've tried with a Cnet NIC with a Davicom chipset and with a sis900. I could not make it work with: Mandrake 8.1 with ALL the kernels that are available on th CD, Mandrake SNF as well, SuSE 7.2, 7.1 and 7.3, Caldera 3.0, Coyote Linux and I guess that all were those tried.
IN ANY OF THOSE CASES I could get the sis worked fine. In SuSE I get the Davicom one as the "unique" by Yast2. In Mandrake I get both recognized and configured. However, the network didn't work. I don't know where that could be from but I just recommend one thing: If you try to join a Linux machine to a network never try it with a Sis ethernet card. Are the worst!!! Nicolas Gomez ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juergen Hammelmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:14 PM Subject: [expert] ATTENTION! Bug in new mandrake kernel 2.4.18 and sis900 driver Hello together, We have two pc's which are connected with two sis900 lan cards and crosswire. one pc runs with win98, the other with kernel 2.4.18.6mdk. After every reboot of the win98 pc, the eth0 device is only dropping and very slow, pings are hanging, kernel shows messages like following NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000000 I have to ifdown/ifup eth0 device, and then all runs fine. earlier kernel 2.4.16-11mdk and original kernel 2.4.18-1linus run fine! Ciao, J�rgen -- Lack of capability is usually disguised by lack of interest. system: 4:49pm up 44 min, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.12, 0.49 -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address: J. Hammelmann, Br�hlstr. 6 phone: +49-7034-61578, +49-179-2178869 D-71157 Hildrizhausen, Germany fax: +49-7034-652189 www: http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~hammelje ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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