No ethernet, nor sata-disks with AMD64/K8S-MX

[Anders Wallenquist]

The Asus K8S-MX are based on chipset SiS760gx/SiS965L

 1) Ethernet controller are unknown (SiS191). According to sis.com whould
 modprobe sis900 / 8139too and kernel 2.6.10 do the magic.

 2) No disks, SATA/RAID (SiS182). Sis.com: modprobe sata_sis.

 I beleive this is an issue for all motherboards based on SiS760

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Created an attachment (id=1929)
dmesg

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Created an attachment (id=1930)
lspci -v

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Created an attachment (id=1931)
/etc/modules

Tried booth modprobe <module> and modules put in /etc

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

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lspci -n

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

According to your dmesg, your hard drives have been detected and the kernel does
come with 8139too and sis900. Since I am using sis900. Maybe Im missing something

chuck

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> According to your dmesg, your hard drives have been detected and the kernel does
> come with 8139too and sis900. Since I am using sis900. Maybe Im missing something
>
> chuck

The harddrive that are detected are an external old ide hanging outside the
cabinet in a flat cable, and the detected 8139-ethernet card are also optional.
Without disk or ethernet you cant even try to install anything from a ubuntu
installmedia. You get a red flashing screen, a real showstopper.

I believe that is the lack of SATA-disks that is the largest problem, its easyer
to live with a cheap optional ethernet card than without hard disks.

And yes all drivers that should be nessesary are loaded, sata_sis for SATA and
sis900 for ethernet on motherboard. According to SIS they have put the latest
versions of SATA drivers with kernel 2.6.10 (if I did not missundertod their
README-file distributed with the sata_sis-driver, see uploaded file)

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Created an attachment (id=1972)
Readme from SATA_SIS-driver

[Ralf Pichner (p3d-desti)]

I tried the ubuntu-5.10-preview-install-amd64.iso and it still doesn't work.
Mandriva is working on the sata patch, see this bug:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192

The second is the SIS965L NIC, the sis900 driver is the wrong one. This chip
needs the sis190 driver, which could be found at
http://www.sis.com/download/agreement.php?id=155884

Mandriva had also added a sis190 patch into their kernel (
http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en/mandrivalinux-2006-beta.php3
# kernel 2.6.12-12mdk

    * 2.6.12.6
    * Added sata_sil24 module, SiS182? minimal support, SiS190? driver, support
of the IDE chipset of the SiS965L? boards.)

[Ralf Pichner (p3d-desti)]

Created an attachment (id=4049)
Mandriva_sis190_patch

[Joris van Mens (spamandeggs)]

I've got exactly the same problem with my Asrock 939S56-M motherboard
(Northbridge SiS 756, Southbridge SiS 965L): no SATA nor ehternet detection.
Since I don't have an extra HD I can't even install. It's the first time I'm
installing linux so I can't really give any more in-depth information, if you
need it, tell me what to do.

Board specs:
http://www.asrock.com/product/product_939S56-M.htm

I'm using the AMD64 version of Kubuntu 5.10.

[Qautchat (philippe-godin)]

I have the same problème, exactly as description. I've try suse 10.0, and the
modprobe SATA-SIS does'nt work. It seems that only mandriva has patch the kernel.
It seems also the the 2.6.14 kernel works.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This bug has been flagged because it is old and possibly inactive. It may or may
not be fixed in the latest release (Breezy Badger 5.10). It is being marked as
"NEEDSINFO". In two weeks time, if the bug is not updated back to "NEW" and
validated against Breezy, it will be closed.

This is needed in order to help manage the current bug list for the kernel. We
would like to fix all bugs, but need users to test and help with debugging.

If this change was in error for this bug, please respond and make the
appropriate change (or email <email address hidden> if you cannot make the
change).

Thanks for your help.

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Breezy-release did not fix this bug. There is not so many chipsets form AMD64,
and more computers are shiped with SATA-disks only today, so I think this apply
to many configurations.

Please tell me how I can help. Give me instructions how to build a new kernel
and I test it.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

If possible, please upgrade to Dapper's 2.6.15-7 kernel. If you do not want to
upgrade to Dapper, then you can also wait for the Dapper Flight 2 CD's, which
are due out within the next few days.

Let me know if this bug still exists with this kernel.

[Gustavo (gustavo-andriotti)]

There is just an unanswared question: how do I install Ubuntu 5.10 without an IDE disk? I just have my SATA disk. Moreover: FC5 already have that module incorporated on installing process. Can I make my "home-made" ubuntu DVD install disc with that module already on kernel?

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Ethernet and SATAa does work with Dapper Drake (kernel 2.6.15 and later), now there is sound that is missing.

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

Thanks for testing that the ethernet and SATA works with the kernel in Dapper. I'll mark this bug as fixed.

As for the sound problem, please open a new bug report about that specific problem (if you haven't done so yet).