<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO: The mainboard's LAN adapter</TITLE> <LINK HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-5.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-3.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO.html#toc4" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s4">4. The mainboard's LAN adapter</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Making it work...</A> </H2> <P>If your board came with the optional on-board LAN card, you have a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Fast Ethernet card, this card is supported by Linux kernels 2.4 and later (that I know of, as I only use 2.4 kernels). <P> <P>To make it work you should type <P><EM>modprobe sis900</EM> <P>and you should see something like this in your syslog: <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> <PRE> sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 5, 00:d0:09:ea:7a:98. </PRE> </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>or type <P><EM>dmesg | less</EM> and scroll to see the kernel messages. <P>If everything went fine, you may add <CODE>sis900</CODE> to <CODE>/etc/modules</CODE> so it will autoload everytime you boot: <P><EM>echo "sis900" >> /etc/modules</EM> <P>(or <EM>echo "alias eth0 sis900" >> /etc/modutils/aliases && update-modules</EM> for the module to be loaded when needed, go for that if you have a Debian system) <P><B>Pay attention to the double >, or you will have troubles :]</B> <P>or compile it in your kernel, where you should say Y to <CODE>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</CODE> in your kernel configuration. <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="K7s5a-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>