Re: SiS 964 ethernet with sis(4)?
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:55:49AM +0200, Soner Tari wrote: I'm planning to purchase a motherboard with SiS 661FX/964 chipset. Can I assume sis(4) driver on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64 supports the ethernet on SiS 964? (In other words, sis(4) mentions SiS 900, does it mean 9xx?) Thanks, The recent integrated Ethernet MACs on SiS south bridges are known as the sis 190/191, they are not compatible with sis(4). SiS have repeatedly ignored requests for documentation on this, people need to try to contact SiS and ask for documentation that isn't electrical pinouts but something along the lines of SiS 965 MuTIOL Media I/O Programming Guide. The documentation exists, we don't have it, talk to them. This also affects other things in the south bridge we currently don't handle as well as we could.
Re: SiS 964 ethernet with sis(4)?
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:55:49AM +0200, Soner Tari wrote: I'm planning to purchase a motherboard with SiS 661FX/964 chipset. Can I assume sis(4) driver on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64 supports the ethernet on SiS 964? (In other words, sis(4) mentions SiS 900, does it mean 9xx?) Thanks, The recent integrated Ethernet MACs on SiS south bridges are known as the sis 190/191, they are not compatible with sis(4). SiS have repeatedly ignored requests for documentation on this, people need to try to contact SiS and ask for documentation that isn't electrical pinouts but something along the lines of SiS 965 MuTIOL Media I/O Programming Guide. The documentation exists, we don't have it, talk to them. This also affects other things in the south bridge we currently don't handle as well as we could. Jonathan is right. People need to try to help us find new channels into SIS, by showing their disgust at their policies. We've been trying for months to get in touch with someone who will even reply to mail. It's stupid. Don't just avoid their products. Contact them and indicate your disgust.
SiS 964 ethernet with sis(4)?
I'm planning to purchase a motherboard with SiS 661FX/964 chipset. Can I assume sis(4) driver on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64 supports the ethernet on SiS 964? (In other words, sis(4) mentions SiS 900, does it mean 9xx?) Thanks,
Re: SiS 964 ethernet with sis(4)?
On 2006/11/25 03:55, Soner Tari wrote: I'm planning to purchase a motherboard with SiS 661FX/964 chipset. Can I assume sis(4) driver on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64 supports the ethernet on SiS 964? Looks like it probably does. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-06/1627.html Don't know about anything else though. Generally, you get to try it out, and work out what to do if something doesn't work satisfactorily (disks, usb, blah blah...). If you mention the motherboard model, you might be lucky and find someone else who already has one who could let you know more...or then again, you might not.
