[PATCH] remove obsolete sis900 documentation
This documentation is mostly obsolete, and should therefore either be updated or removed (this patch does the latter). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
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kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
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procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \
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sis900.xml kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
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kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
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gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml
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###
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
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<book id="SiS900Guide">
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<bookinfo>
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<title>SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Ollie</firstname>
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<surname>Lho</surname>
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</author>
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<author>
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<firstname>Lei Chun</firstname>
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<surname>Chang</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<edition>Document Revision: 0.3 for SiS900 driver v1.06 & v1.07</edition>
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<pubdate>November 16, 2000</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>1999</year>
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<holder>Silicon Integrated System Corp.</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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</para>
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<para>
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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</para>
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<para>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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<abstract>
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<para>
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This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS 900/7016
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device driver under Linux.
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</para>
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</abstract>
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</bookinfo>
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<toc></toc>
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<chapter id="intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>
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This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet
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device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by Silicon Integrated
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System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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The driver can be compiled as a loadable module and used under Linux kernel
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version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06)
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With minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernel
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(rev. 1.07), please see
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<xref linkend="install"/>. If you are intended to
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use the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own.
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</para>
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<para>
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The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including
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FTP, Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers.
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</para>
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<para>
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Please send all comments/fixes/questions to
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<ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">Lei-Chun Chang</ulink>.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="changes">
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<title>Changes</title>
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<para>
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Changes made in Revision 1.07
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most
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constant definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were
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corrected)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not used,
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just simple pci_find_*.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and
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more comments were added to reflect the real situation.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer
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descriptors.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Better transmit/receive error handling.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management
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scheme to improve performance.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Names of variables were changed to be more consistent.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Bug in mac probing fixed.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround rule.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Support for media select by ifconfig.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Added kernel-doc extratable documentation.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="tested">
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<title>Tested Environment</title>
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<para>
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This driver is developed on the following hardware
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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and tested with these software environments
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Red Hat Linux version 6.2
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Linux kernel version 2.4.0
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Netscape version 4.6
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Samba version 2.0.3
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="files">
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<title>Files in This Package</title>
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<para>
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In the package you can find these files:
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</para>
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<para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>sis900.c</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Driver source file in C
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>sis900.h</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Header file for sis900.c
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>sis900.sgml</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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DocBook SGML source of the document
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>sis900.txt</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Driver document in plain text
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="install">
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<title>Installation</title>
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<para>
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Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux Kernel
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developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by the usuall channels
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for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar files for official kernel and
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patches for kernel pre-release can be download at
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<ulink url="http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/">official kernel ftp site</ulink>
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and its mirrors.
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The 1.06 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and pre-2.2.14,
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and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0.
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If you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read
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<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Ethernet HOWTO</ulink> and
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<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink> available from
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Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
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</para>
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<para>
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The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this
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is the most easy case.
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Be sure you have the appropriate packages for compiling kernel source.
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Those packages are listed in Document/Changes in kernel source
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distribution. If you have to install the driver other than those bundled
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in kernel release, you should have your driver file
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<filename>sis900.c</filename> and <filename>sis900.h</filename>
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copied into <filename class="directory">/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/</filename> first.
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There are two alternative ways to install the driver
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</para>
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<sect1>
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<title>Building the driver as loadable module</title>
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<para>
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To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to reconfigure
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the kernel to activate network support by
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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make menuconfig
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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Choose <quote>Loadable module support ---></quote>,
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then select <quote>Enable loadable module support</quote>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Choose <quote>Network Device Support ---></quote>, select
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<quote>Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)</quote>.
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Then select <quote>EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers</quote>,
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and choose <quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote>
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to <quote>M</quote>.
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</para>
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<para>
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After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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make modules
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the driver,
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the driver can be installed to proper place by
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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make modules_install
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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Load the driver into kernel by
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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insmod sis900
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be view by
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</para>
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<para>
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<screen>
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dmesg
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</screen>
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or
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<screen>
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cat /var/log/message
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>
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If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to this:
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000
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eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4.
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eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
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eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine.
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</para>
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<para>
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Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast address and
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netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used by the device.
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Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet) or "100baseT"
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(twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more information on how to configure
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network interface, please refer to
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<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink>.
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</para>
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<para>
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The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after the
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network interface is activated, you may have the message:
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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eth0: Media Link Off
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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indicating that the link is failed.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>Building the driver into kernel</title>
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<para>
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If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose <quote>Y</quote>
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rather than <quote>M</quote> on
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<quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote>
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when configuring the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way
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</para>
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<para><screen>
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make clean
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make bzlilo
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</screen></para>
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<para>
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Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="problems">
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<title>Known Problems and Bugs</title>
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<para>
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There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs please
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mail to <ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">lcchang@sis.com.tw</ulink>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some
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bugs in the <quote>on the fly</quote> change of transceiver.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code,
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the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is
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caught before bad things happen and reported with the message:
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<computeroutput>
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eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
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</computeroutput>
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which can be viewed with <literal remap="tt">dmesg</literal> or
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<literal remap="tt">cat /var/log/message</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet
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by ifconfig causes the media link down.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="RHistory">
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<title>Revision History</title>
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<para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem fixed
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and further clean up.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up
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and optimization.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="acknowledgements">
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<title>Acknowledgements</title>
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<para>
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This driver was originally derived form
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<ulink url="mailto:becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov">Donald Becker</ulink>'s
|
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<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/pci-skeleton.c"
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>pci-skeleton</ulink> and
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<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/rtl8139.c"
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>rtl8139</ulink> drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion
|
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regarded with improvements made in revision 1.06.
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</para>
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<para>
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The 1.05 revision was created by
|
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<ulink url="mailto:cmhuang@sis.com.tw">Jim Huang</ulink>, AMD 79c901
|
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support was added by <ulink url="mailto:lcs@sis.com.tw">Chin-Shan Li</ulink>.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="functions">
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<title>List of Functions</title>
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!Idrivers/net/sis900.c
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</chapter>
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</book>
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@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ routing.txt
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- the new routing mechanism
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shaper.txt
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- info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic.
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sis900.txt
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- SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet device driver info.
|
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sk98lin.txt
|
||||
- Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit
|
||||
Ethernet Adapter family driver info
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|
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@ -1,257 +0,0 @@
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|
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SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver
|
||||
|
||||
Ollie Lho
|
||||
|
||||
Lei Chun Chang
|
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|
||||
Copyright © 1999 by Silicon Integrated System Corp.
|
||||
|
||||
This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS
|
||||
900/7016 device driver under Linux.
|
||||
|
||||
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
|
||||
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|
||||
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
|
||||
your option) any later version.
|
||||
|
||||
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
|
||||
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
|
||||
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
|
||||
General Public License for more details.
|
||||
|
||||
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
|
||||
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
|
||||
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
|
||||
USA
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Table of Contents
|
||||
1. Introduction
|
||||
2. Changes
|
||||
3. Tested Environment
|
||||
4. Files in This Package
|
||||
5. Installation
|
||||
|
||||
Building the driver as loadable module
|
||||
Building the driver into kernel
|
||||
|
||||
6. Known Problems and Bugs
|
||||
7. Revision History
|
||||
8. Acknowledgements
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 1. Introduction
|
||||
|
||||
This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016
|
||||
Fast Ethernet device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by
|
||||
Silicon Integrated System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU
|
||||
General Public License (GPL). The driver can be compiled as a loadable
|
||||
module and used under Linux kernel version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) With
|
||||
minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x
|
||||
kernel (rev. 1.07), please see Chapter 5. If you are intended to use
|
||||
the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own.
|
||||
|
||||
The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including FTP,
|
||||
Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers.
|
||||
|
||||
Please send all comments/fixes/questions to Lei-Chun Chang.
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 2. Changes
|
||||
|
||||
Changes made in Revision 1.07
|
||||
|
||||
1. Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most constant
|
||||
definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were corrected)
|
||||
2. Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not
|
||||
used, just simple pci_find_*.
|
||||
3. MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver.
|
||||
4. Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed.
|
||||
5. Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and more
|
||||
comments were added to reflect the real situation.
|
||||
6. Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer
|
||||
descriptors.
|
||||
7. Better transmit/receive error handling.
|
||||
8. The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management scheme to
|
||||
improve performance.
|
||||
9. Names of variables were changed to be more consistent.
|
||||
10. Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code.
|
||||
11. Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly.
|
||||
12. Bug in mac probing fixed.
|
||||
13. Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround
|
||||
rule.
|
||||
14. Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver.
|
||||
15. Support for media select by ifconfig.
|
||||
16. Added kernel-doc extratable documentation.
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 3. Tested Environment
|
||||
|
||||
This driver is developed on the following hardware
|
||||
|
||||
* Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset
|
||||
* SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card
|
||||
|
||||
and tested with these software environments
|
||||
|
||||
* Red Hat Linux version 6.2
|
||||
* Linux kernel version 2.4.0
|
||||
* Netscape version 4.6
|
||||
* NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18
|
||||
* Samba version 2.0.3
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 4. Files in This Package
|
||||
|
||||
In the package you can find these files:
|
||||
|
||||
sis900.c
|
||||
Driver source file in C
|
||||
|
||||
sis900.h
|
||||
Header file for sis900.c
|
||||
|
||||
sis900.sgml
|
||||
DocBook SGML source of the document
|
||||
|
||||
sis900.txt
|
||||
Driver document in plain text
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 5. Installation
|
||||
|
||||
Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux
|
||||
Kernel developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by
|
||||
the usuall channels for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar
|
||||
files for official kernel and patches for kernel pre-release can be
|
||||
download at official kernel ftp site and its mirrors. The 1.06
|
||||
revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and
|
||||
pre-2.2.14, and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. If
|
||||
you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read
|
||||
Ethernet HOWTO and Networking HOWTO available from Linux Documentation
|
||||
Project (LDP).
|
||||
|
||||
The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this
|
||||
is the most easy case. Be sure you have the appropriate packages for
|
||||
compiling kernel source. Those packages are listed in Document/Changes
|
||||
in kernel source distribution. If you have to install the driver other
|
||||
than those bundled in kernel release, you should have your driver file
|
||||
sis900.c and sis900.h copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first.
|
||||
There are two alternative ways to install the driver
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Building the driver as loadable module
|
||||
|
||||
To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to
|
||||
reconfigure the kernel to activate network support by
|
||||
|
||||
make menuconfig
|
||||
|
||||
Choose "Loadable module support --->", then select "Enable loadable
|
||||
module support".
|
||||
|
||||
Choose "Network Device Support --->", select "Ethernet (10 or
|
||||
100Mbit)". Then select "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers", and
|
||||
choose "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" to "M".
|
||||
|
||||
After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by
|
||||
|
||||
make modules
|
||||
|
||||
The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the
|
||||
driver, the driver can be installed to proper place by
|
||||
|
||||
make modules_install
|
||||
|
||||
Load the driver into kernel by
|
||||
|
||||
insmod sis900
|
||||
|
||||
When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be
|
||||
view by
|
||||
|
||||
dmesg
|
||||
|
||||
or
|
||||
cat /var/log/message
|
||||
|
||||
If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to
|
||||
this:
|
||||
|
||||
sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000
|
||||
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4.
|
||||
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
|
||||
eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
|
||||
|
||||
showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine.
|
||||
|
||||
Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by
|
||||
|
||||
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE
|
||||
|
||||
where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast
|
||||
address and netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used
|
||||
by the device. Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps
|
||||
Ethernet) or "100baseT" (twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more
|
||||
information on how to configure network interface, please refer to
|
||||
Networking HOWTO.
|
||||
|
||||
The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after
|
||||
the network interface is activated, you may have the message:
|
||||
|
||||
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
|
||||
|
||||
If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get
|
||||
|
||||
eth0: Media Link Off
|
||||
|
||||
indicating that the link is failed.
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Building the driver into kernel
|
||||
|
||||
If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose "Y" rather than "M"
|
||||
on "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" when configuring
|
||||
the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way
|
||||
|
||||
make clean
|
||||
|
||||
make bzlilo
|
||||
|
||||
Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory.
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 6. Known Problems and Bugs
|
||||
|
||||
There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs
|
||||
please mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw
|
||||
|
||||
1. AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some
|
||||
bugs in the "on the fly" change of transceiver.
|
||||
2. A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code,
|
||||
the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is
|
||||
caught before bad things happen and reported with the message:
|
||||
eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping which can be
|
||||
viewed with dmesg or cat /var/log/message.
|
||||
3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet
|
||||
by ifconfig causes the media link down.
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 7. Revision History
|
||||
|
||||
* November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem
|
||||
fixed and further clean up.
|
||||
* November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up
|
||||
and optimization.
|
||||
* August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release
|
||||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||||
|
||||
Chapter 8. Acknowledgements
|
||||
|
||||
This driver was originally derived form Donald Becker's pci-skeleton
|
||||
and rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion regarded
|
||||
with improvements made in revision 1.06.
|
||||
|
||||
The 1.05 revision was created by Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 support was
|
||||
added by Chin-Shan Li.
|
|
@ -1613,11 +1613,7 @@ config SIS900
|
|||
---help---
|
||||
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
|
||||
the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in
|
||||
SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. If you have one of those, say Y and
|
||||
read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available at
|
||||
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Please read
|
||||
<file:Documentation/networking/sis900.txt> and comments at the
|
||||
beginning of <file:drivers/net/sis900.c> for more information.
|
||||
SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets.
|
||||
|
||||
This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use
|
||||
your phone line as a network cable.
|
||||
|
|
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