I'll comment by saying that developing a storage driver remotely is a total pain in the ass bordering impossible.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:16:26PM -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote: > You should try current. I have these very chipsets on a board I have, and > the IDE support works great for PATA drives, haven't plugged in any SATA > drives I will admit, mind showing a dmesg so we can get an idea of how > old a kernel you are running/ > > It was suggested to me the SIS 190 is such a rare find that it might not be > worth the effort to support it. I'll let others comment if this is > accurate or not. > > Thanks, > -- > Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net > > _____________________________________________ > | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) > | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) > | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) > | "..in support of free software solutions." \ 250797 (FWD) > | \ > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > > 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A > http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt > > Penned by Rene Maroufi on 20081226 21:26.45, we have: > | Hi, > | > | I have a new PC with an Athlon 64 CPU, and SiS Chipsets. The SiS SATA > | Chip, and the SiS Onboard Ethernet Controller doesn't work on OpenBSD. > | The SATA-HDD works without DMA. I plugged in a PCI-Ethernet Card and an > | IDE HDD, but if any developer have interest to develop a driver for the > | SiS 190 Ethernet Controller, or the SiS 183 SATA Chip, I can provide SSH > | access to the machine for developing (including sudo-root access of > | course). > | > | Full dmesg (after plugging in the extra ethernet card, but before using > | the IDE-HDD): > | http://www.maroufi.net/dmesg_gawain > | > | A FreeBSD driver for the SiS 190 ethernet card exists here: > | http://www.nabble.com/SiS-190-NIC-driver-td14260735.html > | > | Cheers > | Reni > | -- > | Reni Maroufi > | i...@maroufi.net
