The Asus K8S-MX LAN problem

Submitted by Pimm on Sat, 01/21/2006 - 12:38. Motherboards
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Hi there,

I googled and posted all over the web for this question, and I found out that my Motherboard (the Asus K8S-MX)'s LAN is not supported. I read that some people got it working with other drivers though...

Can you please help me out with these drivers and such? I'm kinda new to linux.

If anyone can help me I will help you with Flash if you want to (since I'm very good with Flash).

B.t.w. I also posted this topic on Linuxquestions (link) some time ago.

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have you already tried the

Submitted by carlops on Sat, 01/21/2006 - 12:40.
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have you already tried the live CD? What is it exactly that is not supported? What are the symptoms?

PS
Never mind about the Flash. I design websites and steer clear of Flash as long as I can Eye-wink

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Re: have you already tried the

Submitted by Pimm on Sat, 01/21/2006 - 12:49.
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carlops wrote:

have you already tried the live CD? What is it exactly that is not supported? What are the symptoms?

Yes I have, and I was very happy when I saw that MEPIS did install on my board where others failed (so I have SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1-1 installed). The symptoms are that the LAN just doesn't work Eye-wink and that lspci gives

Quote:

0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0190

Now I have found this page, which says this:

Quote:

The other big issue was that the onboard 10/100 LAN did not work. Like
the IDE functionality, this is again circuitry embedded into the SiS
965L chip. The circuitry is apparently very close to what was
SiS 190/191 network adapter chip. Funnily, there is next to no
information about this chip anywhere. There has been a Linux driver
for this chip, but it has been removed frm the kernel at version 2.6.5
with comment:

Delete sis190 net driver.

The driver was copied from the very-buggy r8169 (pre-Francois),
and is for hardware that isn't even out of the lab yet.

The good luck is, the driver compiles and "works" (such as it does)
just by copying the source (sis190.c) from 2.6.5 sources and setting
it up into the current source tree (for SuSE 9.2, current being
2.6.8-24.14). Setting up means:
- add a section with SIS190 into drivers/net/Kconfig
(I just copied from SIS900 section)
- add a line with CONFIG_SIS190 into drivers/net/Makefile
(again, copy and change from the CONFIG_SIS900 line)
- place a copy of the sis190.c (from 2.6.5 sources) into drivers/net
- configure and compile

But since I'm new to linux, I don't really know what this all means.

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OK, what this seems to mean

Submitted by carlops on Sun, 01/22/2006 - 04:12.
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OK, what this seems to mean is the on board LAN module is not natively supported, but you already knew that Eye-wink

The page you're referring to gives some info regarding an unofficial driver, and how to set it up for SUSE. I would not really know if it works on Debian / Mepis. It would definitely require a kernel compilation with the driver. You being new to Linux, I don't know if that would be a good idea yet.

My suggestion would be to go and buy a normal PCI ethernet card. You can pick one up for 10 euros or less. Disable the on board LAN controller and use the network card. It'll save you a lot of hassle.

Cheers
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I'll try that

Submitted by Pimm on Mon, 01/23/2006 - 11:48.
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Thanks, I'll try that then.

Any comments on how to fix my problem are welcome anyway, because I'd still like to use the onboard function (one day).

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For one, drop a kind note to

Submitted by carlops on Mon, 01/23/2006 - 11:59.
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For one, drop a kind note to ASUS informin them of the issue you are having as a Linux user with their board. If only they get enough, they might eventually come around....

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Re: OK, what this seems to mean

Submitted by idatoo on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 04:28.
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Its not necessary to buy an additional ethernet card.
SiS provides the driver on their website.
Just go to support section, choose linux | network driver | sis190/191 lan driver or here's a shortcut link:
http://www.sis.com/download/agreement.php?id=155884

carlops wrote:

OK, what this seems to mean is the on board LAN module is not natively supported, but you already knew that

The page you're referring to gives some info regarding an unofficial driver, and how to set it up for SUSE. I would not really know if it works on Debian / Mepis. It would definitely require a kernel compilation with the driver. You being new to Linux, I don't know if that would be a good idea yet.

My suggestion would be to go and buy a normal PCI ethernet card. You can pick one up for 10 euros or less. Disable the on board LAN controller and use the network card. It'll save you a lot of hassle.

Cheers
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

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