Matt,
It looks like the 8201L PHY was first supported in 4.6-RELEASE, but the PR
wasn't updated to reflect this.
Guido, if possible, could you try with 4.6.2-RELEASE and see if your card
gets detected?
I am running 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
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From: Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sis900: sis0 attach returned 6
Guido,
I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD. Patches to support
this PHY, along with reports of successful testing
From: Matthew Emmerton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sis900: sis0 attach returned 6
Guido,
I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD. Patches to
support
this PHY, along with reports of successful
Matt
When you see the boot: prompt, hit space and then type 'boot -v' and
watch your system boot. Then send the list the detailed information about
the sis0 driver (use the dmesg command once you've booted.)
...
pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1039, dev=0x7012) at 2.7 irq 10
sis0: SiS 900
Matt,
What's probably happening is that we're not recognizing the PHY device that
the sis900 uses, or the card itself is doing something wierd.
I wondered what would happen under RedHat 7.3 so I installed it on a
spare partition. I hoped that this may be helpfull to pinpoint the
problem
Matt,
What's probably happening is that we're not recognizing the PHY device that
the sis900 uses, or the card itself is doing something wierd.
This desknote computrer came with an OEM version of ThisLinux. So I
installed that to find out how it handles the sis900 and all other
pci-devices.
Guido,
I did some more digging and it appears the bigger problem is that the
RTL8201 external PHY isn't supported (yet) in FreeBSD. Patches to support
this PHY, along with reports of successful testing in numerous
configurations, are reported in PR kern/30836 (and kern/35691).
This PR has been
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Trying to install FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 on a
new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26
GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
repeated blocks of output about the
I am trying to install 'FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 14 21:23:26
GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
i386' on a new ECS iBuddy4 desknote with sis900 fast ethernet card.
The sis900 is never attached. When I look at dmesg output, I see
repeated blocks of output about
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