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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt b/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bddffd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt @@ -0,0 +1,257 @@ + +SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver + +Ollie Lho + +Lei Chun Chang + + Copyright © 1999 by Silicon Integrated System Corp. + + This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS + 900/7016 device driver under Linux. + + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at + your option) any later version. + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but + WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU + General Public License for more details. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software + Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 + USA + _________________________________________________________________ + + Table of Contents + 1. Introduction + 2. Changes + 3. Tested Environment + 4. Files in This Package + 5. Installation + + Building the driver as loadable module + Building the driver into kernel + + 6. Known Problems and Bugs + 7. Revision History + 8. Acknowledgements + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 1. Introduction + + This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 + Fast Ethernet device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by + Silicon Integrated System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU + General Public License (GPL). The driver can be compiled as a loadable + module and used under Linux kernel version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) With + minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x + kernel (rev. 1.07), please see Chapter 5. If you are intended to use + the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. + + The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including FTP, + Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. + + Please send all comments/fixes/questions to Lei-Chun Chang. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 2. Changes + + Changes made in Revision 1.07 + + 1. Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most constant + definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were corrected) + 2. Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not + used, just simple pci_find_*. + 3. MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. + 4. Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. + 5. Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and more + comments were added to reflect the real situation. + 6. Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer + descriptors. + 7. Better transmit/receive error handling. + 8. The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management scheme to + improve performance. + 9. Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. + 10. Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. + 11. Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. + 12. Bug in mac probing fixed. + 13. Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround + rule. + 14. Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. + 15. Support for media select by ifconfig. + 16. Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 3. Tested Environment + + This driver is developed on the following hardware + + * Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset + * SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card + + and tested with these software environments + + * Red Hat Linux version 6.2 + * Linux kernel version 2.4.0 + * Netscape version 4.6 + * NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 + * Samba version 2.0.3 + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 4. Files in This Package + + In the package you can find these files: + + sis900.c + Driver source file in C + + sis900.h + Header file for sis900.c + + sis900.sgml + DocBook SGML source of the document + + sis900.txt + Driver document in plain text + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 5. Installation + + Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux + Kernel developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by + the usuall channels for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar + files for official kernel and patches for kernel pre-release can be + download at official kernel ftp site and its mirrors. The 1.06 + revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and + pre-2.2.14, and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. If + you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read + Ethernet HOWTO and Networking HOWTO available from Linux Documentation + Project (LDP). + + The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this + is the most easy case. Be sure you have the appropriate packages for + compiling kernel source. Those packages are listed in Document/Changes + in kernel source distribution. If you have to install the driver other + than those bundled in kernel release, you should have your driver file + sis900.c and sis900.h copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first. + There are two alternative ways to install the driver + _________________________________________________________________ + +Building the driver as loadable module + + To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to + reconfigure the kernel to activate network support by + +make menuconfig + + Choose "Loadable module support --->", then select "Enable loadable + module support". + + Choose "Network Device Support --->", select "Ethernet (10 or + 100Mbit)". Then select "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers", and + choose "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" to "M". + + After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by + +make modules + + The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the + driver, the driver can be installed to proper place by + +make modules_install + + Load the driver into kernel by + +insmod sis900 + + When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be + view by + +dmesg + + or +cat /var/log/message + + If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to + this: + +sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 +eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. +eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. +eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default + + showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. + + Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by + +/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE + + where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast + address and netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used + by the device. Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps + Ethernet) or "100baseT" (twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more + information on how to configure network interface, please refer to + Networking HOWTO. + + The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after + the network interface is activated, you may have the message: + +eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex + + If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get + +eth0: Media Link Off + + indicating that the link is failed. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Building the driver into kernel + + If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose "Y" rather than "M" + on "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" when configuring + the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way + +make clean + +make bzlilo + + Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 6. Known Problems and Bugs + + There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs + please mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw + + 1. AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some + bugs in the "on the fly" change of transceiver. + 2. A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, + the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is + caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: + eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping which can be + viewed with dmesg or cat /var/log/message. + 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet + by ifconfig causes the media link down. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 7. Revision History + + * November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem + fixed and further clean up. + * November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up + and optimization. + * August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release + _________________________________________________________________ + +Chapter 8. Acknowledgements + + This driver was originally derived form Donald Becker's pci-skeleton + and rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion regarded + with improvements made in revision 1.06. + + The 1.05 revision was created by Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 support was + added by Chin-Shan Li. |
