Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1700, cbb and sip problems
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2004 17:57:56
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David Brownlee wrote:
> sip0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: SiS 900 10/100 Ethernet, rev 0x91
> sip0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19 (irq 10)
> sip0: Ethernet address 00:c0:9f:2f:af:72

> sip0: device timeout

I can second this. Either, the driver is quite buggy or this chip is
simply a POS. Even a Realtek 8139 works better than this. The SiS 900
has very bad performance, is almost unusable in 100 Mbit mode and
will die sooner or later until you reboot your system.

--=20
Christian

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