Howto setup SiS190 Ethernet - not working for me

Hi to all,

I'm trying to setup a new computer, with the following configuration:

* Motherboard ASUS P5SD2-VM
* 2 CPU Core Duo
* SiS968 Southbridge
* SiS672 Northbridge
* Ethernet card SiS191-based

Now, almost everything works, except the network card.

I found the howto of howtoforge.org about the setup of this card, and used it. But the card still doesn't work.

When I insmod the new module, I get the output on the attached file "output_sis190.txt"

I'm using Slackware 12 with a vanilla kernel 2.6.22, as the howto says.

By the way, when I edited the "sis190.c" file, the piece of code that I must edit doesn't look the same as in the howto. You can see it in the attached file "code_sis190.txt"

Thanks for any opinion .

 

As you can see in "output_sis190", the card is detected, but when the system tries to configure it, I got a "link is not ready" message...

 

Hi again,

I just tried a 2.6.25 vanilla kernel, and I got this output:

ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:04.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from EEPROM
0000:00:04.0: Error EEPROM read 0.
0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from APC.
0000:00:04.0: Unknown PHY transceiver at address 1.
0000:00:04.0: SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter at f8e1ec00 (IRQ: 19), 00:1e:8c:a7:1f:8e
eth0: GMII mode.
eth0: Enabling Auto-negotiation.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

Seems to be a kernel problem, maybe the card is NOT supported

 

Hm... Do you see the card in the output of

Code:

lspci

?

 

Here is the output of "lspci":

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Unknown device 0671
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-t o-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (r ev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethern et Adapter (rev 02)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mo de (rev 03)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
00:0f.0 Audio device: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller
00:1f.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

As you can see, the ISA line and the Ethernet line looks just like in the HOWTO (chipset 968 and 191 Gigabit Ethernet). But the solution of the howto doesn't work.

 

Strange...