On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 04:40, Marcos Vinicius Lazarini wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to install SuSE Linux Pro 9.1 using the ftp-version into an old Celeron Machine, with a sis900 Ethernet NIC. After running into a *lot* of trouble to make the sis900 Network Card work (logs were complaining about ISA Bridge), I discovered that it's support is broken in kernels from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 (perhaps 2.6.6 also) here: http://teg.homeunix.org/sis900.html (Just to mention, last updated kernel from SuSE 9.1 uses 2.6.5) I could not find any reference thee this problem in the list's archives.
In that page there is a patch to the kernel-source, but I was looking for a more easily maintained version - so I don't have to recompile the kernel myself to fix the security holes.
My question: is it possible to restore sis900 support (using the simple patch in the page above) in the next update of the kernel image? Who can I mail to ask this change to be made in the next versions?
Regards, Marcos Lazarini NICS Admin @ Unicamp - Brazil
Hi .. I think sis900 support is just fine .. 0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90) works just fine here never misses a beat yast found it on install ok .. Try the latest Suse kernel 2.6.5-7.104-default the sis900 is ok and aas far as i know the holes that existed have been plugged . Pete. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN