Need help getting FreeBSD to run

[Scott Mitchell]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 01:02:51PM +0100, Mike Doyle wrote:
> sis900.c: v1.08.06 9/24/2002
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
> eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
> eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
> eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x8800, IRQ 12, 00:e0:18:d8:b4:2a.
> eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex

Mike,

It looks like you have a SiS 900 Ethernet controller there, with a RealTek
PHY attached.  The SiS 900 is supposedly supported by the 'sis' driver,
which seems to be in the generic kernel config.  The 'miibus' driver knows
about a RealTek PHY8201L PHY, which may or may not be the same one you have
there.  It seems like this combination *should* work, but maybe this is a
strange configuration that the sis driver can't cope with.

Is there any chance you can get the so-called experts at your ISP to boot
FreeBSD on this box again and give you some more information on what's
actually going wrong?  ie, commands they're trying, error messages they're
getting, etc.

Cheers,

	Scott

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