My distro is Linux FC2 and in my PC I have a main board with Sis 900 network device embedded in the main board. After installation of Linux FC2 the network hardware was automatically found by the system and I only configured the network device using the graphic interface (no dhcp and I put IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway Address).
When I restart the PC I have this error at boot: "Sis 900 device eth0 does not seem to be present. Delaying initialization" I have the same error if I try to Activate the device from the graphic interface.
I have checked BIOS and it seems OK: I have no plug and play OS setted and the LAN board is active.
ifconfig does not show me any information about my device. Just the loopback interface.
I run modprobe sis900 but it did not help.
I tried also to disable OnBoard LAN from BIOS and enable it again just to run Kudzu and configure again the NIC board but it did not help.
I attach the dmesg output .
I am new to Linux, can anyone help me? Thanks.
ciao
Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.3.3 2 0040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
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sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:01.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0f.1 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Can not find ISA bridge
This may be a problem related to the chipset PCI ID changing; see: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0405.2/0071.html
Try one of the recent errata kernel updates (> 2.6.6) and it may well be fixed.
Paul.
