sis 900 10/100BaseTX

[freebsd]

I have a laptop (i-buddy) that I have put FreeBSD on.  Everything works great except 
for the NIC.  I think the problem is that freebsd does not have any support for this 
sis card because it is too new.  Anyone know what to do ?  I have included the 
description of the NIC from the web site that I bought the laptop, and the chunk of 
dmesg that has information about the sis card.

(sis discription)
Communications:
Onboard full duplex 10/100 Base-T ethernet, MAC: SiS? 961 built-in
56K / V.90 Conexant PCI software data/fax modem
Built-in SIR transceiver module, IrDA 1.3 standard compliant up to 4.0Mbps

(chunk of dmesg)
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: multimedia, audio at device 2.7 (no driver attached)
sis0: SiS 900 10/100BaseTX port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xcfff9000-0xcfff9fff irq 5 at 
device 3.0 on pci0
sis0: Ethernet address: 00:50:eb:0e:40:d7
sis0: MII withour any PHY!
device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6
pci0: simple comms at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: serial bus, FireWire at device 7.0 (no driver attached)

Thanks,
Dave

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Re: sis 900 10/100BaseTX

[northern snowfall]

sis0: MII withour any PHY!


the SiS900 driver has been around for a while. According to the code
if_sis.c's sis_miibus_readreg (redirected from mii.c:^mii_phy_probe)
returns if the phy number is not zero and the SiS900 revision is 
revision 635. I'm going to guess that this might be incorrect for your
chip. Why? Duno.. You could try removing the sc-sis_rev  SIS_REV_635
to see if a phy is on a higher level than zero.
Another option is to check the PCI values. SiS7016 is similar to the 
SiS900, but,
has no internal PHY. Maybe FreeBSD is incorrectly seeing the chip as a 900
when its a 7016? Sometimes that happens if you have an OEM fscking the
PCIDID.
Don



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