Subject: Re: SiS 900 revision 635+ support
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/14/2003 17:07:09
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:14:26PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > dmesg shows (with this patch):
> >
> > sip0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: SiS 900 10/100 Ethernet, rev 0x90
> > sip0: interrupting at irq 11
> > sip0: Ethernet address 00:07:95:0a:bf:eb
> > ukphy0 at sip0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
> > ukphy0: OUI 0x000004, model 0x0020, rev. 1
> > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>
> I think it's finding a phy there just fine. It's just not one that
> matches a more specific driver than ukphy.  Does the interface
> work?

Kinda. It works ok for small packets under light load. But say try to do
NFS (for an install, as an example), and it dies.

Not sure if it's the PHY or the chip that's causing the error.

Take care,

Bill