SiS don't know their own chip:

http://www.sis.com/function/search.php?keyword=sis190&imageField.x=0&ima...

http://www.sis.com/products/product_000015.htm

And on the layout picture on page 16 there are only the chips we know about. The "Realtek RTL8201 PHY" chip is explicitely listed in sis900.c in the linux sources. Maybe ASUS for some reason reprograms the pci ids? Or do you have an ethernet card plugged into a slot?

If you grab a new pci.ids file from pciids.sf.net then `lcpci' should show the right details. Alternately use `lspci -n' and then look up the PCI ID manually.

synthetec: when I was investigating the ethernet card problem, I came to know of this problem as well. Check out the post by krolaw at
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-30418.html
Perhaps you may find something helpful there?
I am not sure buying this mobo was a good decision. Oh hell, I should have checked the compatibility before buying it...

Try this ?
Taken from comp.os.linux.hardware

--- sis5513.c.orig 2005-03-29 15:26:09.000000000 +0300
+++ sis5513.c 2005-05-28 12:50:53.031716736 +0300
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@
pci_read_config_word(dev, PCI_DEVICE_ID, &trueid);
pci_write_config_dword(dev, 0x54, idemisc);

- if (trueid == 0x5518) {
+ if ((trueid == 0x5518) || (trueid == 0x180)) {
printk(KERN_INFO "SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller\n");
chipset_family = ATA_133;

You can add "handled = 1;" in SiS190_interrupt to fix the problem.

static irqreturn_t
SiS190_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) dev_instance;
struct sis190_private *tp = dev->priv;
int boguscnt = max_interrupt_work;
void *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
unsigned long status = 0;
int handled = 0;

do {
status = SiS_R32(IntrStatus);

/* h/w no longer present (hotplug?) or major error, bail */

SiS_W32(IntrStatus, status);

if ((status & (TxQ0Int | RxQInt)) == 0)
break;

// Steve Tsai
handled = 1;

from which kernel did you take the sis190.c which worked?..

a brief info on how you did it would be greatly appreciated..
i am greatly pissed off with this sis190 thing..

TIA...

thanx a lot for sis190.c ..it works in fc3,2.6.9
but when i try to put it with gentoo-2.6.11 it refuses..
error:
root # modprobe sis190
FATAL: Error inserting sis190 (/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/net/sis190.ko): Invalid argument

and var-log-messages says.. :
Jun 7 11:13:57 sis190: falsely claims to have parameter media

I guess. the prob is with MODULE_PARM(media,_stringify()..) part..

I ve also seen a patch somewhere.. with removes MODULE_PARM..
so could u plz suggest some corrections in the code..?

( :P , i removed that line altogether..and tried but the system
hangs in few seconds.. curious as to why this happened...)

I just installed the latest FC4 kernel (2.6.14-1.1633_FC4) and it does recognize the ethernet card now, but my experience is much like yours in your first message: works fine in Windows but is very unstable in Linux. It seems as if it can only send/receive small bits of information, anything slightly bigger and the connection just dies (nothing appears in the logs).

Anything that Francois Romieu told you that might help me?

Okay, I´ve given up on this motherboard (ASRock 939S56), it´s quite new and support for both Linux and "the other OS" is still in its infancy. On both OSes I experienced problems with lock-ups, mouse/keyboard suddenly not working anymore, CD-Rom which did not work with Linux etc etc.

So I just installed a Gigabit motherboard and everything has been working perfectly (great to see Linux immediately booting and working while Windows needed practically a complete re-install).

I thought I would just Windows until I got the wrinkels ironed out of the Linux install but when I noticed Windows had a bunch of problems as well I just gave up.

Well that´s what you get for not checking the Linux compatibility for the ASRock MB first.

I'm having similar problems with the SiS190. My motherboard is an Asus K8S-MX, and I'm currently running Gentoo amd64 with kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 (which I configured by hand), although the behaviour was the same under 2.6.16-gentoo-r11. The device shows up as "00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 190 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" in lspci.

The network seems to be okay for ordinary web browsing, as I'm on a home ADSL connection and the speed can't get too high. However, there are serious problems when using the card to access the local network (100Mbs via a fast ethernet switch). When I try accessing some larger pages on an internal webserver, or transfer files of any significant size via sftp or scp, I start getting RX errors and the operation hangs. It's even happened while just trying to ls the contents of some directories on another computer via ssh. I've noticed that the number of RX errors is always the same as the number of the RX frame, although I have no idea what that means.

I'd love to get to the bottom of what the problem is. This thread is the only place I've found any mention of something similar. It's almost certainly not a hardware problem, as I'm running a dual boot with Windows and the network is just fine there.

I called the manufacturer (foxconn) and I was instructed to install the SIS191 driver, but the only instructions were for kernel recompile. If I knew how to do that I wouldn't be using Ubuntu. How can SIS191 be installed by a newbie? I am my wits end I bought this board because I couldn't install Ubuntu on my HP Pavillion board. Now its installed but its useless because it can't connect to the internet.

Have you managed to get this working? I had a similar problem which I fixed in sis190.c.

Related URLs
http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg34912.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2410996#post2410996

What message do you get in dmesg?