[PLUG] FC4, Acer Aspire, SiS900, and Network Troubles

[Jason R. Martin]

On 3/3/06, Christian Brink <cbrink at brinkrods.com> wrote:
> I just got my new Acer Aspire3005WLCi. It has an internal SiS900
> Ethernet NIC, but I can't get it to work at all. No ARP, no ping,
> nothing. But the lights work.
>
> I reloaded Windows (as much as it pained me) and the NIC worked fine. I
> am using the same cable/cable path as the Windows test. It's going to a
> D-Link DSS-5+ 10/100 Fast Ethernet Switch.
>
> lsmod shows the sis900 module loaded.
>
> modprobe.conf shows:
> alias eth0 sis900
>
> dmesg shows:
> sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan 22 2005
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x1800, IRQ 3, (MAC in Hex)
>
> messages shows:
> kernel: sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan 22 2005
> kernel: 0000:00:04.0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 13
> kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast EThernet at 0x1800, IRQ 3, (MAC in Hex)
> kernel: eth0 Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
> kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

This part is bad news, as it means the driver timed out trying to talk
to the hardware.  There is either a device driver problem or a
hardware problem at work here.  Does ethtool show anything
interesting?  What are the outputs of ethtool by itself, ethtool -S
and ethtool -k?

Jason