Thanks, that makes me a lot more serene. :))
Frank On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:36 +0200, Sandy McGuffog wrote: > Frank, > > The SiS 900 works fine for me on 100 Mbps without any specific > ifconfig instructions, so should work for you unless Acer have it in a > (very) non-default configuration. > > Note however that when you compile the kernel, you do need to change > the config to include SiS 900 support, it's not included by default. > > Can't help on the graphics. > > On 8/11/05, Frank Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've reported this already in a former post and maybe it's too early to > > ask this again. > > > > I've bought an Acer 2313NLC notebook. The NIC is a SiS 900 and the > > graphics controller is a SiSM661MX. I wasn't able to bring the NIC up. > > > > I gave the notebook to the Acer service because the (preinstalled) > > Linpus Linux has messages about PCI bus faults in the syslog. I still > > haven't the notebook back but ... > > > > ... I'm sort of nervous. I've Googled a bit about SiS and found a lot of > > posts reporting the SiS chipset working on RedHat, SuSe, Debian ... and > > some posts this chipset NOT to work on Gentoo. > > > > Well, most of the posts I found are 2 to 3 years old. Maybe this isn't > > an issue at all furthermore. > > > > Has someone got this to work? My provider gives me a 100Mbps FD link. In > > the kernel documentation there is still this: > > > > 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet > > by ifconfig causes the media link down. > > > > Will I have to do a ``mii-tool -a 10baseT-FD,10baseT-HD'' before being > > able to use this NIC? > > > > I found: > > /* > > * SiS > > 300/630/730/540/315/550/[M]650/651/[M]661[FM]X/740/[M]741[GX]/330/[M]760[GX] > > > > in /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/sis. > > > > Due to this and reading the information on: http://www.winischhofer.net/ > > the graphics should'nt be an issue, should it? > > > > Excuse me my impatience but I'd like to install some Linux as soon as I > > get the machine back ... and I'd prefer Gentoo (using the NIC ;) over > > Fedora (using Click'nClay with Anaconda) > > > > > > Regards > > Frank > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
