Network Module wont load.

[Master of Reality]

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My sis900 module wont load for my sis900 network card in redhat 8.0 (linux 2.4.18-14)
The exact same module is running my network card fine in RedHat7.3. Is there any other things i should try to load this module?

[voidmain]

Were any parameters passed to the module in /etc/modules.conf? Do you have a copy of that file from your RH73 setup? Also there is an "sis900_old" driver. Did you try that (modprobe sis900_old)?

Also look for any related error messages in your /var/log/messages and related messages from the "dmesg" command.

Also, does it show up in an "/sbin/lspci -v"?

P.S. I just looked through the driver source code and it doesn't appear that the driver takes any parameters so looking for the old modules.conf probably wouldn't be of any use.

[ November 16, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Master of Reality]

i hate most other linu users that use sis900 because they feel the need to post how good it is everywhere.

I found somewhere that the sis900 module was upgraded in the 2.4.17 kernel, so i might want to try the old one.

[voidmain]

Yes, but RH73 uses the 2.4.18 kernel. Question is, did your machine detect and use sis900 or sis900_old? We may never know....unless you do a small RedHat 73 on some spare space on the machine...

And I searched bugzilla at RedHat and the only problems I saw with the driver were way back on 2.4.9 on Advanced Server. Looks like you have a fairly uncommon problem. Might want to report it on bugzilla (only after you verify again that it will work with 7.3).. What does "/sbin/lspci -v" say again?

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Master of Reality]

whoops... i meant Redhat 7.2 it works on (linux 2.4.7)

[root@localhost root]# lspci -v
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

thats a bad thing isnt it?

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

[voidmain]

Yes, and probably has something to do with your network card not working. You didn't happen do do an "upgrade" install of RedHat 8.0 did you?

[Master of Reality]

nope... I did a full isntall, and the only thing i touched since install was XF85Config.

[voidmain]

That's very strange. RH8 must not like your MOBO/Chipset for some reason. And that's unusual in my experiences with RedHat. Let me check over bugzilla some more, is there anything else that doesn't work?  Could you post the output of a "dmesg" right after a fresh reboot?

[Master of Reality]

output from dmesg after rebooting and tryin modprobe sis900 and getting the same error as above

Linux version 2.4.18-14 ([email protected]) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000005ff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000005ff0000 - 0000000005ff8000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000005ff8000 - 0000000006000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
95MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 24560
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 20464 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hdb3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 995.701 MHz processor.
Speakup v-1.00 CVS: Tue Jun 11 14:22:53 EDT 2002 : initialized
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1976.57 BogoMIPS
Memory: 92844k/98240k available (1311k kernel code, 4244k reserved, 987k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults>
ramfs: max_pages=11701 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=11701
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000, vendor = 2
Enabling Disabled K7/SSE Support...
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
PCI: System does not support PCI
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
speakup:  initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
block: 176 slots per queue, batch=44
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2550A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MAXTOR 4K040H2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-ROM CDU571-Q, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: 6X4X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 5008752 sectors (2564 MB) w/76KiB Cache, CHS=621/128/63
hdb: 78198750 sectors (40038 MB) w/2000KiB Cache, CHS=4867/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
Adding Swap: 306424k swap-space (priority -1)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
ohci1394: pci_module_init failed
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
sis900.c: v1.08.04 4/25/2002

[voidmain]

Notice the line that says "System does not support PCI"?  That don't look good. Can you give me a description of this machine? The motherboard in particular, chipset etc..

[Master of Reality]

SIS 650 chipset

sis650 video
sis900 network card
sis7012 sound
all^ are integrated.

has 3 PCI slots and they worked when i put in a Realtek8139 a few months ago (which isnt in it now).

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

[ November 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

[voidmain]

Try adding pci=bios to the boot options and see if it helps.

At your GRUB menu, press "a" and at the end of the line add " pci=bios". If that works, add it to your grub configuration.

[Master of Reality]

your last name doesnt happen to be torvalds, does it??

That worked, my sound works now too, so do my USB ports.
(i am posting from RH8)

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
your last name doesnt happen to be torvalds, does it??

It might be. Yeah right!

[hm_murdock]

mine is.