Help! ECS K7S5A has problems under Linux7.2

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Problem1: LAN doesn't work, when linux boots up, it says eth0 failed.
Problem2: On Board Audio doesn't work.
Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thx.
(I really need to make LAN work under Linux, it works fine under win98.)

 

[Peter]

You did load the SiS 900 LAN driver, didn't you? And you also did enable "Onboard LAN" in BIOS?

Sound is an SiS 7012 engine, currently not yet supported in ALSA but supported by kernel sound drivers. The analog conversion and volume control is done by a Realtek ALC100 codec, which is also supported.

Can't say more, since my Linux-on-K7S5A project isn't yet assembled physically.

regards, Peter

 

[CoDerEd]

1. It's not working even on 8.1 and the new 8.2, I'm not sure if SiS900 is positevely
not competible [but i saw it on their hardware list] or it just need a setup.
now the question is HOW??? My friend, who own the board, tried to look around for
months and haven't find anything yet.

2. I'm not sure about onboard sound. SBAudigy working just fine.

 

[CoDerEd]

<<You did load the SiS 900 LAN driver, didn't you? And you also did enable "Onboard LAN" in BIOS?>>

Done

 

[hotmail]

😕
There is Motherboard driver under windows, I installed that.
There is no driver for Linux.
I can't find file /dev/eth0 after Linux boot.

 

[Peter]

Hello? I just told you what to do.

 

[Peter]

Epilog ... did that kind of installation once again last night ...

The sis900.o driver from kernel 2.4.17 works for the onboard LAN perfectly fine,
and for the sound to work you best go with the latest ALSA package.

regards, Peter

 

[Peter]

Epi-Epilog ... just installed ALSA 0.9.0-beta12, sound's working now too. Strangely enough, the support for the SiS 7012 sound unit is buried in the snd-intel8x0.o driver, but so be it 🙂

regards, Peter