According to www.sis.com.tw , Red Hat Linux 7.0.1 should recognize the ethernet controller on default. But it can't! Well, I don't know the exact problem, but I tried few workarounds, like: disabling modem from the BIOS setting, setting IO/IRQ parameters by hand while booting, etc --- they all failed! So, I downloaded Linux Kernel 2.4.2( www.kernel.org) and compiled it with Ethernet module built-in and this solved my problem. You might feel bored reading my notes, so let me give you the exact steps I followed: 1. Download kernel 2.4.0 or later. (I used 2.4.2) 2. save it under /usr/src/ 3. You'll get something like: ls /usr/src/ linux-2.4.2.tar.gz redhat 4. cd /usr/src 5. cat linux-2.4.2.tar.gz | gunzip | tar xfv - 6. ls /usr/src linux linux-2.4.2.tar.gz redhat 7. cd /usr/src/linux 8. make menuconfig Follow the instructions and check the following: (a) Loadable module support Follow the instructions and check the following: (a) Loadable module support Follow the instructions and check the following: (a) Loadable module support Enable module support (b) Network device support Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (First try it as a module, press Y, I mean) (c) Save configuration file and exit 9. make modules 10. make modules_install According to the manuals it should work! But anyway, I wasn't able to fix my ethernet controller in this way! So, I did the following(not module, built-in module): 8. make menuconfig Follow the instructions and check the following: (a) Loadable module support Follow the instructions and check the following: (a) Loadable module support Enable module support (b) Network device support Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (Built-in module, press few times, I mean) (c) Save configuration file and exit 8. make dep 9. make clean 10. make bzlilo Now you'll get a bzImage in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage 11. cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/mykernel.date 12. make a ref to this new Image from /etc/lilo.conf. It'll be something like(change hda6 with something appropriate): image=/boot/mykernel.date label=mykernel.date root=/dev/hda6 13. lilo -v ..... Added mykernel.date ..... 14. reboot Now, you should have SiS 900 Ethernet Module built-in the kernel. Run, 15. /usr/sbin/netconfig and do appropriate setting to make SiS controller come up! By the way, you might want to take a look at: www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/DocBook/sis900.tmpl.html Just a warning, I wasn't successful following the instructions found in the above page. But who knows, you might get successful! Give it a try if you want to.

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