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["Andy Davice" <Andy_Davice AT easy.com>]

Progress.  :-)

Looks like the sis900 driver does work fine w BL,
just needs a little hand-holding...

Did some googling & tried the following:  

insmod sis900

ifconfig eth0 62.254.148.73 broadcast
62.254.148.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseT

and this seemed to work.

dmesg gave the final lines:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed
sis900.c: v1.06.03  12/23/99
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 11,
00:06:4f:04:b3:bc.
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found
at address 1.
eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex

which seems very positve

and ifconfig gave:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
00:06:4F:04:B3:BC
          inet addr:62.254.148.73 
Bcast:62.254.148.254  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
 Metric:1
          RX packets:7895 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:475482 (464.3 kiB)  TX bytes:0
(0.0 iB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB)

However - and I'm going to ask what may seem a
really dumb question here - how do I now use the
browser to get online?  I've looked thru /bin 
/usr for anything that looks like info on a basic
browser, and using 'go to URL' via the 'd' command
then Esc just brings up 'site not found'. I have
also tried pinging a few sites and this gets no
response.

Is the driver really working and am I actually
online?  

I think I'm nearly there.... putting a jigsaw
puzzle together in the dark (but more fun)

thanks again - Andy


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