I just had a look at
http://www.sis.com/products/chipsets/integrated/socketa/730s.htm and the
block diagram shows the two PHY's one to a HomePNA
and one to what looks like a mother board add on!
I hope this problem can be solved since I just ordered the board yesterday.
Regards,
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: Nikolai Vladychevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:16 PM
Subject: disable sis900
> Hi there!
>
> I stil fighting with my system.... now I beleive that having sis900
> ethernet on my board (ECS K7SEM) may be not a good idea
>
> This motherboard has a realtek controler onboard and Sis730 chipset, wich
> comes with sis900 inside. So , really I have 2 lan controlers:
>
>
> 00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900
10/100
> Ethernet (rev 82)
> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
> I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
> Memory at 88000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev
> 10)
> Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at 2800 [size=256]
> Memory at 88004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
>
> The original BIOS flash disables somehow the sis900 , so I don't see it in
> the lspci......
>
> In src/northsouthbridge/sis/730/southbridge.c on line 262 i found this
code:
>
> pcidev = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x0900, (void *)NULL);
> if (pcidev != NULL) {
> u32 bar0 = 0xb001;
> // set the BAR 0 to 0xb000. Safe, high value, known good.
> // pci config set doesn't work for reasons we don't
> understand.
> pci_write_config_dword(pcidev, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, bar0);
>
>
> I replaced it by:
>
> pcidev = pci_find_device(PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x0900, (void *)NULL);
> // if (pcidev != NULL) {
> if (0) {
> u32 bar0 = 0xb001;
> // set the BAR 0 to 0xb000. Safe, high value, known good.
> // pci config set doesn't work for reasons we don't
> understand.
> pci_write_config_dword(pcidev, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, bar0);
>
>
> but the controler wasn't disabled.... how do I disable it?
>
> Nikolai
>
>
