i disabled the sis ethernet card in the bios ... tried for quite some time to make it work .. but failed
i decided to put the network card from my old pc in my new pc.
this 'old' card is a realtek rtl8029(AS) pci ethernet nic
it works fine under win98se ... using irq5 and i/o 1040-105F
when i boot under linux (rh8, kernel 2.4.18-14) i get the following :
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localhost ifup: sis900 device does not seem to be present, delaying eht0 initilization
localhost network: bringing up interfact eth0: failed
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those 2 lines are directly underneath eachother in /var/log/boot.log
in /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net i have (among others) 2 files :
8390.o
ne2k-pci.o
i can successfully insmod 8390
when i then do : insmod me2k-pci
then i get :
pci: no irq known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0e.0
eth0: realtek rtl-8029 found at 0x8400, irq 0, oo:c0:f0:53:18:05
both in /proc/ioports and in /proc/pci the realtek card shows up
on another page i read something about /proc/interrupts but i dont have that file
in the bios i tried both setting the irq of pci1 as well as the irq of pci2 to a fixed value (tried 5 and 7) and both tried to set them to 'auto' as well
i am doing this on an asus barebone system (terminator p4) pc
i'll have a look if i can find the exact specifications of the sis ethernet chipset