Re: problem with sis900

[Dominik Karall <dominik.karall@gmx.net>]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:17, Daniele Venzano wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:30:12AM +0200, Dominik Karall wrote:
> [...]
>
> > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> > 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-5336  Wed
> > Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
>
> [...]
>
> Your kernel is tainted, but I'm willing to think that you can reproduce
> the problem without binary modules loaded. Please confirm this.

Yes, I'm using the kernel nv driver now.

>
> > Let me know if you need more infos!
>
> It seems that the driver is confused by the on chip informations it
> reads and detects some 'ghost' transceivers, then decides to use one of
> those, instead of taking the real one.
>
> The following patch is a guess in this direction, it should make the
> driver get the PHY at address 1, the one detected correctly for you.
> Obviously, if it works, I'll need to make the patch a bit more
> general before submission...

Sorry, but the patch does not help, same error messages in log, and can't 
change to full-duplex mode.

sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 0.
eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 2.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 3.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 4.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 5.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 6.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 7.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 8.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 9.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 10.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 11.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 12.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 13.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 14.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 15.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 16.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 17.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 18.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 19.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 20.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 21.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 22.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 23.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 24.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 25.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 26.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 27.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 28.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 29.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 30.
eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 31.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 30 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 19, 00:10:dc:8f:a9:ac.