strange error on sis900 ethernet

[ollie lho]

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 22:30, zhu shi song wrote:
> I met one strange error on sis900 ethernet driver. 
> I'm using cvs freebios on 6 Oct, 2002 , kernel 2.4.17,
> mainboard is winfast6300. After booting using
> linuxbios stored in DOC, I boot 
> my host linux system using normal bios.  the host
> linux
> is the same system as in DOC.  I test pings, the
> result
> is ( after linuxbios booting):
>  ping -s 2592 192.12.11.1 ( remote ip addr )  0% lost
>  ping -s 2593 192.12.11.1 ( remote ip addr ) no
> response, 100% lost

Why are your using a packet size of 259x bytes ?? It just makes
no sense since the MTU of ethernet is about 1500.

> I can't make the mainboard work correctly until I have
> booted
> windows98.  Then I use my host linux system to boot, 
> the thing is ok. (after windows98 booting )
>   ping -s 2592 192.12.11.1 0% lost
>   ping -s 2593 192.12.11.1 0% lost
> 
>   What's the problem, maybe something wrong with pci
> ,or sis900 init 
> code.

Some early 630A/E chips has some kind of bugs due to semiconductor 
fab process. Probably you are just unlucky to get a bad one.

Ollie