Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection.
The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card and bringing the link up. The lights on the NIC are both (continous) lighting. If I do an ``ifconfig eth0 down'' followed by an ``ifconfig eth0 up`` the lights turn both off for about one second and then both on again. I see the link coming up in the log and in dmesg. Trying to ping some address I get "network unreachable". The network connection itself works. This is tested with another (Acer) notebook. Due to the fact that there are a couple of messages about disconnecting and connecting PCI devices in the log I'm wondering about a hardware problem. Well this all don't happen with Gentoo. Acer (fortunately) has a "Linpus Linux" installed on delivery. So I have a means to do some recovery. I've tried this of course with the Gentoo install CD too. Further on I've tried Knoppix, Mandrake, SuSe, Ubuntu and Fedora. I know I've seen some messages about Acer notebooks on this list. Unfortunately I cannot search the archives without a network connection. My chief tolerates if I'm writing a mail during working time. I'm afraid he won't tolerate me spending hours searching something private on the WEB. If someone knows about issues with the sis900.c module please let me know. Thanks in advance Frank PS: ... and yes, I did RTFM ``menuconfig'' points to. ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
