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: 01/13/2004 23:33:19
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, David Brownlee wrote:
> 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...
1.87 of sys/dev/pci/if_sip.c and my 0x91 revision sip in my
Acer laptop is very happy. Many thanks cube. Now if only
xf86cfg didn't core dump... :)
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