On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:47:51PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I am not the guy you talk about, but with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said: > sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 > eth0: Error EERPOM read ffff > > I was told, that the reason was the driver not able to read the mac address > on the card. I had to update to kernel 2.4.20 and switch ACPI off to get > sis900 running. (The ACPI stuff seems to be related to my motherboard).
yeah, that's the error i was talking about. you can tell because of the typho (should be EEPROM, not EERPROM). do you still get that message? i wrote a patch for it that i believe works, but i don't have a card to test it on :) sean
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