This patch is required to get sis900 ethernet working well on a Foxconn
661FX7MI-S motherboard which uses the SiS 661FX chipset. The patch adds
an entry to mii_chip_info for the transceiver.
The PHY ids were found using the sis900_c_122.diff patch from
http://brownhat.org/sis900.html but that patch didn't solve the problem,
because the PHY at address 1 was already being chosen.
Without my patch, when bursts of packets arrive from other hosts on a
LAN, the interface dropped one roughly 10% of the time, causing
retransmits. There were fifth second pauses in refresh of large xterms,
and it made Netrek suck. I can provide further test data.
Workaround in lieu of patch is to use mii-tool to advertise
100baseTx-HD, then force renegotiation.
I wasn't able to identify the actual transceiver, so the description
field is a guess.
This patch is similar to Artur Skawina's patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114297516729079&w=2
I'm not sure, but I wonder if it means the default behaviour should be
changed, so as to better handle future transceivers.
Diff is against 2.6.16.13.
Signed-off-by: James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- sis900.c.orig 2006-05-09 10:36:54.000000000 +1000
+++ sis900.c 2006-05-09 12:16:26.000000000 +1000
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
} mii_chip_table[] = {
{ "SiS 900 Internal MII PHY", 0x001d, 0x8000, LAN },
{ "SiS 7014 Physical Layer Solution", 0x0016, 0xf830, LAN },
+ { "SiS 900 on Foxconn 661 7MI", 0x0143, 0xBC70, LAN },
{ "Altimata AC101LF PHY", 0x0022, 0x5520, LAN },
{ "AMD 79C901 10BASE-T PHY", 0x0000, 0x6B70, LAN },
{ "AMD 79C901 HomePNA PHY", 0x0000, 0x6B90, HOME},
