I've just loaded Red Hat Linux 8.0 on a computer with a new Asus
P4S533-E motherboard, and am unable to get the on-board NIC working.
I've left all the critical BIOS settings at their defaults, with "Plug
& Play OS" set to "No", as setting it to "Yes" panics the kernel.
The chipset includes an sis900 10/100 Ethernet controller. This is
also known as a RealTek 8201. Any attempt to insmod the sis900 driver
fails with a "No such device" error. The dmesg file reports:
sis900.c: v1.08.04 4/25/2002
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Error EERPOM read 0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
>From looking through the source code, the EERPOM (sic) error occurs
when the driver gets an all zeros or all ones result when trying to
read the MAC address.
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