Hi,
I have an ASUS L3180M notebook with a SiS 740 chipset and a SiS 900 ethernet
card.
With the driver update at the developer’s site I was able to ping from both
sides of a crossover connection. But when I try to connect to our LAN
through a hub I can’t even ping my default gateway. I get no errors from the
driver, everything seems just fine, except that ping’s output, after 20-30
seconds, is “host is down”. Not to mention that DHCP doesn’t work and I’m
trying with a static IP.
Now, I know this may sound like an IP config problem, but the same settings
work just fine under Linux and Windows XP on the same machine. I’m going
crazy with that and I don’t know how to detect what’s wrong… I can only
think it is a driver problem.
When I use ping I can see that sent bytes increases in nicinfo’s output, but
no packets are being sent, but I suppose that’s normal. Is it? Apart from
that, nicinfo shows no errors, no bad packets.
The only strange thing I get is just after the boot, when I receive a lot of
packets from the LAN and the sloginfo output is full of “sis9: MORE bit not
clear”. But after a while I don’t get any more packets and error messages
like that (those are actual Rx errors, as showed by nicinfo, but most of the
packets I receive are good). I guess that the other machines in our LAN try
to connect to me with NetBIOS, because the same happens under Windows.
So what can I do?
-Paolo
Previously, Paolo Messina wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.os:
Hi,
I have an ASUS L3180M notebook with a SiS 740 chipset and a SiS 900 ethernet
card.
With the driver update at the developer’s site I was able to ping from both
sides of a crossover connection. But when I try to connect to our LAN
through a hub I can’t even ping my default gateway. I get no errors from the
driver, everything seems just fine, except that ping’s output, after 20-30
seconds, is “host is down”. Not to mention that DHCP doesn’t work and I’m
trying with a static IP.
Now, I know this may sound like an IP config problem, but the same settings
work just fine under Linux and Windows XP on the same machine. I’m going
crazy with that and I don’t know how to detect what’s wrong… I can only
think it is a driver problem.
When I use ping I can see that sent bytes increases in nicinfo’s output, but
no packets are being sent, but I suppose that’s normal. Is it? Apart from
that, nicinfo shows no errors, no bad packets.
The only strange thing I get is just after the boot, when I receive a lot of
packets from the LAN and the sloginfo output is full of “sis9: MORE bit not
clear”. But after a while I don’t get any more packets and error messages
like that (those are actual Rx errors, as showed by nicinfo, but most of the
packets I receive are good). I guess that the other machines in our LAN try
to connect to me with NetBIOS, because the same happens under Windows.
So what can I do?
We are waiting for the new docs from SiS on this chipset. I’m not sure how
long this is going to take, as there are NDA issues as well. Unfortunately
this is rather difficult to debug, as the hardware is integrated on the
motherboard and we don’t have one of these boards.
-Paolo
We are waiting for the new docs from SiS on this chipset. I’m not sure how
long this is going to take, as there are NDA issues as well. Unfortunately
this is rather difficult to debug, as the hardware is integrated on the
motherboard and we don’t have one of these boards.
Ok, I will just wait then… > 
Thanks for your interest!
And if you need some beta-testing for a next release of the driver, I’d be
happy to help.
-Paolo