Sis900 PCI FAST Internet Driver?

[Member stroudmw]

I’ve got a very old Acer Aspire 3000 laptop. Really old: it has a job sticker on it from 2007!
It works fine: I’ve got Antix 17.4.1 32 bit non-PAE running, and idles along happily using <70 Mib RAM.
But I can’t get connected to the internet.

Here are the details:

System:
  Host: zero Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17.4.1_386-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Other-vm? System: Acer product: Aspire 3000 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Acer model: Lugano M serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 3A27 date: 08/24/05 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 11.9 Wh condition: 11.9/29.6 Wh (40%) model: SANYO 10ZL 
  status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ bits: 32 type: UP 
  arch: K8 rev.E rev: 2 L2 cache: 128 KiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 1600 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1800 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA 
  Display Adapter 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: vesa resolution: 1024x768~61Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC97 Sound 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.7 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A port: 1800 bus ID: 00:04.0 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 66.51 GiB used: 4.25 GiB (6.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD400UE-22HCT0 size: 37.26 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 29.25 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 35.44 GiB used: 4.17 GiB (11.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 1024.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 129 Uptime: 10m Memory: 716.4 MiB used: 90.4 MiB (12.6%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.36 

 Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet driver: N/A

 

Can anyone help, please?

[Moderator caprea]

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Did the internet work during the live-session ?
What happens if you try
sudo modprobe sis900

[Member stroudmw]

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Thanks for your reply. Nothing happens when I do sudo modprobe sis900. It just goes to a new line: no feedback at all.
And it doesn’t work with the live session… either with Antix or one of the Puppies that I tried.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Are you sure the ethernet device is not damaged?
I ask because the drivers have been compiled as modules in the kernel.

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[Member stroudmw]

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I have absolutely no idea. How can I tell?
I don’t really use this thing and it’s just been gathering dust. But I thought it might be fun to get it up and running again.
I can do a USB tether to my phone and connect that way, but that’s not really an elegant solution.

[Member stroudmw]

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Are you sure the ethernet device is not damaged?
I ask because the drivers have been compiled as modules in the kernel.

Ok… I’ve now also tried Gentoo and Lubuntu 18.04 and they didn’t work either. I think you must be right and my ethernet port must be damaged.

[Moderator caprea]

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It might be possible the card is deactivated in the bios.

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