Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1700, cbb and sip problems
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2004 18:15:04
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Christian Biere wrote:

> 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.

	Setting it to 'media 10baseT' sometimes gets the interface working
	long enough to ping, but not nfs mount... ack...

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