Dear FreeBSD friend,

Indeed it is, as you call it, one of those 'silicon on the motherboard' things.
So I don't know if this is more difficult for you to do.

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:44:05AM -0700, Howard Harvey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Willy Offermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Wolfgang Zenker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:26 AM
> Subject: Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card
> 
> 
> > Dear FreeBSD friend,
> >
> > I'm not able to hack the code myself, I'm just a FreeBSD user
> > (enthousiastic one) not a developer. So it would be nice if someone
> > else could do it.
> 
> Is this one of those 'silicon on the motherboard' things or
> an external PCI card?  I've hacked ethernet drivers before
> and if it's just a PCI card, I would certainly be willing to
> have a (w)hack at it.
> 
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> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > > sis0@pci0:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0xb7321019 chip=0x09001039 rev=0x91
> hdr=0x00
> > > >     vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
> > > >     device   = 'SiS900 Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Ctrlr'
> > > >     class    = network
> > > >     subclass = ethernet
> > >
> > > that's apparently a SiS962 chip. This one is not (yet) supported in
> FreeBSD;
> > > the MAC address is stored on an EEPROM that is shared with the IEEE 1394
> > > port and needs a special access protocol. If you want to hack on the
> driver
> > > yourself, a search for "sis962" and "sis900.c" or "sis900.h" on google
> > > should get you the information what was changed on the linux driver to
> > > support this particular chip. I _might_ find the time next weekend to
> > > cobble together a patch you could try.
> > >
> > > Wolfgang
> >
> > --

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
With kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Willy

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