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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 ]

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