New: Network don't work with SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet. Mainly, I tried with DHCP interface. With exacly the same configurations network works on olders kernels and don't work on the newest
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Quoted 41 lines · On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:35:20 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11649
Summary: Network don't work with SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet.
Mainly, I tried with DHCP interface. With exacly the same configurations network works on olders kernels and don't work on the newest
Product: Drivers
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.26.5
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: Network
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]Latest working kernel version: 2.6.23.x
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24.x
Distribution: Debian Etch 4.0
Hardware Environment: PC
Software Enviroment:
Problem Description:I installed Debian Etch 4.0 (with kernel 2.6.18-6-k7) on my machine with ECS K7S5A with built-in network card SIS900. During the installation and after first boot internet worked like a dream with auto configurated DHCP interface. But after change kernel to version 2.6.26.5 internet didn't work. In this moment I realized that I didn't change internet configurations, but I thought that it can be wrong in hardware configurations. On the other hand, the results by lspci and lspci -n, said that everything had worked perfectly. Then, I compiled kernel 2.6.26.5 with exacly the same .config file like kernel from debian distribution (2.6.18-6-k7) and internet didn't work too. After that, I compiled older kernel (2.6.17) with this .config file and internet started working! I think, it is proof that it is something wrong in module sis900 in the newest kernel versions, because I didn't change others system configurations!
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What is more, system didn't have interrupt for ethernet, thought lspci recognized network card, sis900 module was started and DHCP was set. To confirm my view I attache interrupt's list and logs from internet starting/restarting:
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A mystery regression in sis900. There's quie a bit more info i te bugzilla report.
Andrew Morton wrote, On 10/04/2008 12:33 PM:
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Quoted 22 lines · On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:35:20 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11649
Summary: Network don't work with SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet.
Mainly, I tried with DHCP interface. With exacly the same configurations network works on olders kernels and don't work on the newest
Product: Drivers
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.26.5
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: P1
Component: Network
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]Latest working kernel version: 2.6.23.x
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24.x
I guess it's because of this missing MAC address (as seen in your dmesg):
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 10, 00:00:00:00:00:00
Jarek P.
PS: there was a change of kernel policy wrt. this.