Hi all, I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to ask this again.
I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up. I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the (preinstalled) Linpus Linux has messages about PCI bus faults in the syslog. I still haven't the notebook back but ... ... I'm sort of nervous. I've Googled a bit about SiS and found a lot of posts reporting the SiS chipset working on RedHat, SuSe, Debian ... and some posts this chipset NOT to work on Gentoo. Well, most of the posts I found are 2 to 3 years old. Maybe this isn't an issue at all furthermore. Has someone got this to work? My provider gives me a 100Mbps FD link. In the kernel documentation there is still this: 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet by ifconfig causes the media link down. Will I have to do a ``mii-tool -a 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD'' before being able to use this NIC? I found: /* * SiS 300/630/730/540/315/550/[M]650/651/[M]661[FM]X/740/[M]741[GX]/330/[M]760[GX] in /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis. Due to this and reading the information on: http://www.winischhofer.net/ the graphics should'nt be an issue, should it? Excuse me my impatience but I'd like to install some Linux as soon as I get the machine back ... and I'd prefer Gentoo (using the NIC ;) over Fedora (using Click'nClay with Anaconda) Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
