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
