On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Harald Milz wrote:
> Petr Sebor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, I have almost went nuts about that card, after I have discovered a
> > small
> > notice on Donald Becker's RTL site that some older motherboards do not
> > support PCI burst modes and that this may be the cause of the problem...
> > My motherboard is not that old, but it is noname VX-PRO II board.. god
> > knows who manufactured it. I have borrowed different board from another
> > computer ( actually VX-PRO+ chipset on noname board but with AWARD
> > BIOS instead of AMI ) and the card now runs like a charm... perfectly...
>
> Some followup from here...
>
> I have a no-name SiS900 based card in a Tyan Trinity S1590S board (VIA
> Apollo 82C597/82C586B VP3 based) just in case someone has a clue about
> PCI burst modes or not.
This was my bug.
Quick answer: use the SiS driver, not rtl8139.c
Story:
The RTL8139 has a feature that allows the PCI Vendor and Device ID to be
loaded from the EEPROM at power-up time (along with the usually-loaded
Subsystem IDs). When the SiS900 cards first came out the early reports had
them looking just like the RTL8139 chips with programmed ID, so I
incorrectly added the IDs to the rtl8139.c list. Oooopsss. Since removed.
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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