Hardy cannot recognize sis191 network adaptor

[firas]

Hardware : Laptop Fujitsu semens 5515v
OS: Hardy Alpha-3 Live CD

When booting using the live CD, the OS cannot detect laptop gaga bit network interfaces adapter sis191. An error message shown: "No network interfaces detected.". Also it could not detected the wireless adapter for this laptop. The wireless is not important, but the network adapter is very very important. Thank you for this wonderful operating system.

Best Regards,

Firas

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in linux.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi firas,

Just a few things. Hardy Alpha 4 is set to come out in a few days. It will have an updated version of the kernel. It would be great if you could verify if this issue still exists with Alpha 4 as well. The reason I say this is I noticed some changes that were pulled in for the sis190 diver: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/ . If the issue still exists, per the kernel team's bug policy, can you please attach the following information. Please be sure to attach each file as a separate attachment.

* uname -a > uname-a.log
* cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
* dmesg > dmesg.log
* sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log

For more information regarding the kernel team bug policy, please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks again and we appreciate your help and feedback.

[firas (firasmail2000)]

Hi,

Hardy Alpha 4 also did not recognized the SIS191 Gaga bit network adapter. Attached is the requested files.

Note:
A similar problem for Fujitsu Siemens v5535 sis191 driver was solved by working around the problem as in :
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-January/134789.html

I'm ready for any further investigations until we can fix this problem.

Best Regards

Firas Abbas

Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote: Hi firas,

Just a few things. Hardy Alpha 4 is set to come out in a few days. It
will have an updated version of the kernel. It would be great if you
could verify if this issue still exists with Alpha 4 as well. The
reason I say this is I noticed some changes that were pulled in for the
sis190 diver: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/ . If the
issue still exists, per the kernel team's bug policy, can you please
attach the following information. Please be sure to attach each file as
a separate attachment.

* uname -a > uname-a.log
* cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
* dmesg > dmesg.log
* sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log

For more information regarding the kernel team bug policy, please refer
to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks again and we
appreciate your help and feedback.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Hardy cannot recognize sis191 network adaptor
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Bug description:
Hardware : Laptop Fujitsu semens 5515v
OS: Hardy Alpha-3 Live CD

When booting using the live CD, the OS cannot detect laptop gaga bit network interfaces adapter sis191. An error message shown: "No network interfaces detected.". Also it could not detected the wireless adapter for this laptop. The wireless is not important, but the network adapter is very very important. Thank you for this wonderful operating system.

Best Regards,

Firas

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Firas,

It looks like the files didn't get attached. I'm guessing you attached them via email which launchpad is unfortunately unable to handle. You'll have to use the "Comment or attach file" link in the "Actions" section of this bug report. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks.

[firas (firasmail2000)]

Hi,

First attachment again

[firas (firasmail2000)]

Im ready for any help.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi firas,

I noticed the following interesting lines in your dmesg output:

[ 139.783453] sis190 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded.
[ 139.783509] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 139.783530] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
[ 139.798261] 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from APC.
[ 139.798271] 0000:00:04.0: Can not find ISA bridge.
[ 139.798293] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:04.0 disabled
[ 139.798308] sis190: probe of 0000:00:04.0 failed with error -5

However, taking a quick glance at the sis190 driver it appears support for your ISA bridge vendor and device id [1039:1968] was added:

ogasawara@yoji:~/ubuntu-hardy$ git log -p ebc71647309539aaf9088f4e41b9f364cce8f7eb

commit ebc71647309539aaf9088f4e41b9f364cce8f7eb

Author: Francois Romieu <email address hidden>

Date: Tue Dec 4 22:58:41 2007 +0100

    sis190: add cmos ram access code for the SiS19x/968 chipset pair

    More work is needed to handle correctly the PHY of the new devices

    when connected to a 10Mb link but this change already helps some

    users as is.

So needless to say, I'm reassigning to the kernel team to take a closer look. Thanks.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Ooops, I typo'd your device id in the comment above, it should be [1039:0968] (as shown in your lspci output). Thanks.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Support for the sis190 0968 appeared Dec 4, 2007.

[youtin (tintin-suing)]

Sorry if this seems like thread hijacking but I'm a first time Linux user and I'm confused on how I should report the bug. I have the same problem with my 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, Vendor: [SiS] on 7.10 Gutsy. It wouldn't recognize my wired connection.

[firas (firasmail2000)]

Hi,

I write here to confirm that my SIS191 Gigabit network adapter is recognized and working well by Ubuntu Hardy Alpha-5.Thank you for this great work.
Is it possible to make a patch file to solve this problem in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy also?.

Best Regards,

Firas

[Harvey Entendez Diaz (harveydiaz)]

hi,

i have the same problem, but i'm using hardy heron the stable (released) version. eth0 is detected but it does not have any connection even on roaming mode, hdcp or using static ip. i have to put in another card (realtek) just to have internet connection. my SiS NIC is gigabit capable. here's my details:

harvey@datasphere:~$ lspci -vv | grep 00.02.0
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 01)

harvey@datasphere:~$ lspci -vv | grep 00.04.0
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 02)

harvey@datasphere:~$ dmesg | grep 00:04.0
[ 40.624841] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 40.624852] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
[ 40.624864] 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from APC.
[ 40.678342] 0000:00:04.0: Unknown PHY transceiver at address 1.
[ 41.189814] 0000:00:04.0: Using transceiver at address 1 as default.
[ 41.221995] 0000:00:04.0: SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter at f8970c00 (IRQ: 19), 00:1d:60:a1:87:9e

on hardy beta the NIC doesn't work but i haven't reported the bug since its already logged, hoping that the stable release will fix it, but it doesn't apparently (at least on my machine).

tried to recompile the sis190.ko driver (following this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-482284.html and this howtoforge howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-the-sis191-gigabit-ethernet-driver-on-linux-2.6) but when i check the source it seems that there were already fixes made, only it didn't work for my machine which is described by lshw as:

harvey@datasphere:~$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for harvey:
datasphere
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: System Product Name
    vendor: System manufacturer
    version: System Version
    serial: System Serial Number
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.1 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=2 uuid=40DE4187-8DFE-D511-B3A3-001D60A1879E
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: P5S-MX SE
       vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
       physical id: 0
       version: Rev x.xx
       serial: MS6C79B22408454
       slot: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: 0306 (09/05/2007)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification

any work around or patches from the kernel team will be greatly appreciated ...

[idokibovito (idokibovito)]

I have the same problem on a Fujitsu Scaleo P (with a sis 966 bridge), even in Hardy.
Any chance this driver will work soon?
Or is there a fix I could do myself without recompiling the whole kernel?

Thanks!

[Pik Master (pikmaster)]

See this link help helps. If yes, then this is a problem with sis190.c driver using one hardcoded value for ISA bridge, which still needs to be patched in Ubuntu 2.6.22 and previous kernels.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/192293/comments/5

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The 18 month support period for Feisty Fawn 6.10 has reached it's end of life - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.04-end-of-life . As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.20 kernel task. For those of you still experiencing issues, it would be good to open a new bug report as it will likely require a different fix. You can referecne this report in your new report if you like. Thanks.

[Braam Wijsmuller (stratofarmer)]

Hi I'm using Intrepid Ibex and I ran into this issue with my Asus laptop having a SiS191 Gigabit Ethernet card.
I installed the kernel from Jaunty which solved the issue for me. Kernel version 2.6.28-8 to be precise. It needs a few dependencies (eg: wireless-crda), I'll try to look which ones you'll need exactly.

Even then there's still a bug in the sis190 driver itself, it needs a workaround to work properly by setting the MTU to 1024. Don't know exactly why but it works for me.
Something like: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1024 up

P.S. Incidently, the new kernel also fixed my Atheros wireless card connection.

You can get all necessary packages here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/li...6.28-8-generic

The MTU workaround can be set automatically upon connection by NetworkManager by adding a script to /etc/network/if-up/

[macsim (macsim)]

Hi, I got the same issue, on ASUS X71SL-7S134C laptop Ubuntu jaunty

eth0 exist but is unusable

kernel 2.6.28-11-generic

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:8c:1c:9c:d8
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
          Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B) Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
          Interruption:19 Adresse de base:0xdead

$lspci -nn |grep Ethe
00:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1039:0191] (rev 02)

I attach lspci -vnn and dmesg, is something missing just ask ;)

thanks.

[firas (firasmail2000)]

Hi,

I see it is configured. It needs DHCP only.

Best Regards,

Firas

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, macsim <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: macsim <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 186666] Re: Hardy cannot recognize sis191 network adaptor
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 2:48 PM
> Hi, I got the same issue, on ASUS
> X71SL-7S134C laptop Ubuntu jaunty
>
> eth0 exist but is unusable
>
> kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
>
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:24:8c:1c:9c:d8
>           UP BROADCAST
> MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           Packets reçus:0
> erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0
> dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 lg file
> transmission:1000
>           Octets reçus:0 (0.0 B)
> Octets transmis:0 (0.0 B)
>           Interruption:19 Adresse
> de base:0xdead
>
> $lspci -nn |grep Ethe
> 00:04.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Silicon Integrated
> Systems [SiS] 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1039:0191] (rev
> 02)
>
> I attach lspci -vnn and dmesg, is something missing just
> ask ;)
>
> thanks.
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "dmesg and lspci"
>    http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24102080/lspci_dmesg.tar.gz
>
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> Hardy cannot recognize sis191 network adaptor
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186666
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> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Fix
> Released
> Status in “linux-source-2.6.20” source package in
> Ubuntu: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Hardware : Laptop Fujitsu semens 5515v
> OS: Hardy Alpha-3 Live CD
>
> When booting using the live CD, the OS cannot detect laptop
> gaga bit network interfaces adapter sis191. An error message
> shown: "No network interfaces detected.". Also it could not
> detected the wireless adapter for this laptop. The wireless
> is not important, but the network adapter is very very
> important. Thank you for this wonderful operating system.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Firas
>