Comment 0 for bug 247889

I have a motherboard ASUS P5SD2-VM (E3464) with SIS968 chipset and SIS190/191 10/100 ethernet controler. Using ubuntu 8.04.1-server (kernel 2.6.24-9) this device is found by kernel but dont send trafic.

Clables and connections are checked and orange led indicating 100Mbps are on.

What to do? it´s a problem with some configuration or is a driver problem?

more information:

 uname -a
 Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 15:18:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

 modproble sis190 && dmes | tail -n 11
[ 259.833889] sis190: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
[ 259.834785] sis190 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded.
[ 259.834823] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 259.834837] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
[ 259.834846] 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from EEPROM
[ 259.834847] 0000:00:04.0: Error EEPROM read 0.
[ 259.834850] 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from APC.
[ 259.952632] 0000:00:04.0: Unknown PHY trans at address 0x1 phy->id[0]= 0x4d phy->id[1]=0xd021.
[ 261.310970] 0000:00:04.0: SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter at f920ac00 (IRQ: 21), 00:1e:8c:a9:f9:9d
[ 261.310974] eth0: GMII mode.
[ 261.310977] eth0: Enabling Auto-negotiation.

 /sbin/ifconfig eth0
 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:8c:a9:f9:9d
          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:300 (300.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xdead
note: pc recieves packets but dont send.

Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Current message level: 0x00000037 (55)
        Link detected: no
note: Link detected: no

lshw -C network
  *-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 191 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
       vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
       physical id: 4
       bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1e:8c:a9:f9:9d
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis190 driverversion=1.2 duplex=full ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx latency=0 link=no module=sis190 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s

mii-diag eth0 --force
Basic registers of MII PHY #0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff.
  No MII transceiver present!.
 The autonegotiated capability is 03e0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.
 Basic mode control register 0xffff: Auto-negotiation enabled.
  Internal Collision-Test enabled!
  Restarted auto-negotiation in progress!
  Transceiver isolated from the MII!
  Transceiver powered down!
  Transceiver in loopback mode!
  Transceiver currently being reset!
 Basic mode status register 0xffff ... ffff.
   Link status: established.
 Remote fault detected!
   *** Link Jabber! ***
 Your link partner advertised ffff: Flow-control 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control.
   End of basic transceiver information.