On Friday 03 March 2006 19:22, Tony Dietrich wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 18:51, Christian Brink wrote: > > I just got my new Acer Aspire3005WLCi. It has an internal SiS900 > > Ethernet NIC, but I can't get it to work at all. No ARP, no ping, > > nothing. But the lights work. > > > > I reloaded Windows (as much as it pained me) and the NIC worked fine. I > > am using the same cable/cable path as the Windows test. It's going to a > > D-Link DSS-5+ 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch. > > > > lsmod shows the sis900 module loaded. > > > > modprobe.conf shows: > > alias eth0 sis900 > > > > dmesg shows: > > sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan 22 2005 > > eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x1800, IRQ 3, (MAC in Hex) > > > > messages shows: > > kernel: sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan 22 2005 > > kernel: 0000:00:04.0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 13 > > kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast EThernet at 0x1800, IRQ 3, (MAC in Hex) > > kernel: eth0 Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex > > kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > > kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 00000004 00000241 > > (last 2 messages repeated) > > > > lspci shows: > > 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI > > Fast Ethernet (rev91) > > > > I ping a machine and I only see my side sending out an arp request with > > no response. Obviously nothing shows in the arp table. > > > > > > -- > > Christan Brink > > Add > acpi=ht > to the end of the boot line in your grub.conf and reboot. > > - > -- > Tony You may also like to try the tutorial at http://republika.pl/homeofwojtekjs/ to see if you can get your battery monitor and wireless to run as well. -- Tony
