Subject: Problem installing sis900.o on Potato
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:44:50PM +0000
In reply to:Chan Siu On
Quoting Chan Siu On([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi all,
>
> I have a SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter installed on my computer but I
> have no idea how to install the module properly.
> I am using Debian Potato 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19pre17. When I select
> sis900 module from "modconf"->"net", insmod complains that the selected
> device or resource is busy and installation fails. It says that I/O or IRQ
> may not be configured properly. I try to add "io=0xcc00 irq=05" as the
> command line arguments, it then says that parm_io is invalid. However, the
> ethernet adapter is found in `cat /proc/pci`, therefore Linux must have
> detected the adapter.
> Does anyone have any idea?
I have a SiS 900 built into the motherboard of my Athlon box. I
could not get it running, correctly, until I went to the 2.4.x kernels.
Currently running fine with kernel-2.4.9. I did this before the
2.2.19 kernels were released tho.
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RAM disk is NOT an installation procedure.
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