Just a sample of what can happen. The K7SEM has two ethernet chips on it, both will probe fine. But if you try to really use the build-in sis900 chip, it hangs the board, because there is no PHY installed. So you really need a bios built for that specific motherboard.
PC hardware is really just horrible. There ought to be a spec for reading vendor/mainboard ID. But the vendors change it so often that I doubt that would ever really work.
ron
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:07:09 +0800 From: Ollie Lho ollie@sis.com.tw To: Nikolai Vladychevski niko@isl.net.mx Cc: Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov, linuxbios@lanl.gov Subject: Re: sorry, it works, K7SEM
Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
Ronald G Minnich writes:
please send us your kernel output. You can capture the serial output using minicom.
yes, I am doing this, aparently it dies on loading sis900.c code .... I am compiling the kernel without it, lets see what happends. this is the current kernel output:
The is the problem. Do not include the SiS 900 driver for any 730 board which does not have PHY with it. Those boards with RTL 8139 as LAN device are in this category. The driver will hang the machine in probing PHY.
Ollie
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