Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 1700, cbb and sip problems
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Quentin Garnier <netbsd-port-i386@quatriemek.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2004 20:22:22
Le Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:15:04 +0000 (GMT)
David Brownlee a ecrit :
> 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...
All of you are using rev. 0x91 SiS900 chipsets, or are there other
revisions with issues?
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