Bug 80351

Summary: sis900 eth0 module reports "failed: no link present. Check cable?"
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Scott Dowdle <dowdle>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Scott Dowdle 2002-12-24 21:47:29 UTC
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Description of problem:
onboard SiS900 ethernet no longer works.  It worked in 7.x and 8.0.  Not sure
what the problem is.  The /etc/modules.conf has it in there:

"alias eth0 sis900" and the module is loaded:

Module      Size   Used by   Not tainted
sis900     16492   0

At boot time get an error message about "failed: no link present.  Check
cable?"... and yes, I've checked the cable... works fine on reboot into Windows
and worked fine on previous RHL installs.

The phoebe install was a fresh install (did NOT upgrade) and I haven't done any
messing around to break it (nor to fix it).

/proc/pci says:

Bus 0, device 1, function1:
  Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
(rev 130)
    IRQ 12.
    Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52. Max Lat=11
    I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff].
    Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffb000 [0xcfffbfff].

/proc/pci also shows a SiS 56k Winmodem (Smart Link HAMR5600 compatible) (rev1
60) also on IRQ 12.

Repeated attempts to "service network restart" result in same error (failed: no
link present. Check cable?").

Not sure where to go from here.  Suggestions?!?


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try Booting System
2. Seems to initialize device but can't obtain an address
3. Worked fine in previous RHL versions
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-24 21:59:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80322 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:33 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.