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> Cannot get Mandrake 9.1 to properly find my onboard SiS NIC card. While it
> correctly assigns an IP and all network parameters are correct, I cannot
> ping anywhere (including default gateway). The only error I could find was
> in dmesg:

> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
> eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:65:e6:0a.

> Based on some googling, here is what it should look like:

> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
> eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:65:e6:0a.

> Any ideas?

>> Cannot get Mandrake 9.1 to properly find my onboard SiS NIC card.
>> While it correctly assigns an IP and all network parameters are
>> correct, I cannot ping anywhere (including default gateway). The only
>> error I could find was in dmesg:

>> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
>> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
>> eth0: Unknown PHY transceiver found at address 1.
>> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
>> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:65:e6:0a.

>> Based on some googling, here is what it should look like:

>> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
>> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
>> eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
>> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
>> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 11, 00:0a:e6:65:e6:0a.

>> Any ideas?

> I had to put something like

> alias  eth0  tulip

> into my modules.conf file to get the system to recognize my Enet card.
> Here, "tulip" is the driver module to be used for my card. For your
> card the driver will be different, SiS 900 is not the DEC "Tulip"
> chip.

> Uli