Re: SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

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On Tuesday 27 April 2004 3:26 pm, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:55, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 2:38 pm, jludwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 09:20, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > > Hi folks.
> > > >
> > > > I've got an Advent 5372 laptop with what MS Windows detects as a 'SIS
> > > > 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter'.
> > > >
> > > > When I had RH7.3 on the NIC was detected straight out of the box and
> > > > worked fine.  When I replaced this wic FC1 everything looked fine,
> > > > with it finding the card okay and allowing me to configure it.
> > > >
> > > > However, there's absolutely no traffic happening with the card
> > > > (booting to windows proves the card, cable etc work).
> > > >
> > > > my /etc/modules.conf has the line
> > > >
> > > > alias eth0 sis900
> > > >
> > > > and lsmod includes sis900, sis and sisfb
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> > > > --
> > > > Gary Stainburn
> > > >
> > > > This email does not contain private or confidential material as it
> > > > may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown
> > > > and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,
> > > > 2000
> > >
> > > What does route -n and ifconfig indicate? Can the card ping itself. I
> > > have the same adapter in my firewall/gateway as eth0 (Ext IF) running
> > > FC1. It upgraded without any issues from RH9.0.
> >
> > Below is the info you asked for.  I can't see anything wrong (apart from
> > it not working).
>
> The ping indicates that the card driver/card combination is functioning
> and talking. N
>
> 1) Netmask looks good
> 2) Route looks good
> 3) What does mii-tool say?
> 4) Does you network use a standard "class B" netmask?

Yes, all of our addresses are 10. with the second octet being the site, and a 
class b subnet manages this.

> 5) Try ping -b -c 3 10.2.0.0 to see if you can see anyone?

See below
>
> I don't see any indications of the kernel version my kernel is
> 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on my GW/FW.
>

Again, see below.  It's actually a clean install from the FC1 CD's with no 
updates applied yet (needs network working first).

>
> [root@localhost root]# ping 10.2.1.7
> PING 10.2.1.7 (10.2.1.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.357 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.258 ms
>
>
> jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[root@localhost root]# mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
[root@localhost root]# ping -b -c 3 10.2.0.0
WARNING: pinging broadcast address
PING 10.2.0.0 (10.2.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.263 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.259 ms
64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms

--- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2
[root@localhost root]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost root]#
[gary@gary gary]$

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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