[netdrivers] Sundance driver doesn't recognize an OEM Sundance device.

[TJ]

Hi,
    I have an i386 system using an MSI NF7-S2 motherboard which includes 
an onboard ethernet device which I've been unable to get working. The 
board is an NForce 2 based board. The ethernet may or may not be the 
nVidia ethernet included in some NForce 2 chipsets. I don't believe it 
is, though.
    I'm currently running Slackware 10.0, 2.6.11.7 kernel. I've tried 
compiling several different drivers as modules and loading them to see 
if they recognized the device with no success. I've tried both realtek 
drivers, the sundance driver, and the forcedeth driver.
    The output of lspci claims that the device is a sundance, but the 
device type is unknown. The driver does not recognize it, and the 
diagnostic program from scyld.com doesn't recognize it 
<ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/starfire-diag.c>.
    I attempted to upgrade the version of my sundance driver, but the 
documentation for doing so <http://www.scyld.com/driver_updates.html> 
has no information for updating a 2.6 kernel. Simply throwing the new 
sundance.c file, as well as the necessary headers did not work, nor did 
downloading the <ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/> directory and running 
'make'. If the new driver version does detect this card, could someone 
point out how to integrate it into a 2.6 kernel, please?
    I am including as much useful possible output below.
    Please CC me. I am not on the mailing list.

Thanks for any input,
TJ Harrell
systemloc <nospam>  earthlink.net



lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) 
(rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0080 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0084 (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0087 (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0087 (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0088 (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 
008a (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 008b (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0085 (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
02:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0680 (rev 01)
02:07.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 
(rev 02)02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast 
Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 02)
02:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL AGP 2X 
(rev 65)
02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device 
0200 (rev 31)

lspci -nvv (Only the sundance device is shown for brevity):

02:0b.0 Class 0200: 13f0:0200 (rev 31)
        Subsystem: 147b:1c08
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (2500ns min, 2500ns max), cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: I/O ports at c400 [size=128]
        Region 1: Memory at e90c6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

pci-config <ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/pci-config.c>:

pci-config.c:v2.05 2/23/2005 Donald Becker (becker at scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Device #1 at bus 0 device/function 0/0, 01e010de.
Device #2 at bus 0 device/function 0/1, 01eb10de.
Device #3 at bus 0 device/function 0/2, 01ee10de.
Device #4 at bus 0 device/function 0/3, 01ed10de.
Device #5 at bus 0 device/function 0/4, 01ec10de.
Device #6 at bus 0 device/function 0/5, 01ef10de.
Device #7 at bus 0 device/function 1/0, 008010de.
Device #8 at bus 0 device/function 1/1, 008410de.
Device #9 at bus 0 device/function 2/0, 008710de.
Device #10 at bus 0 device/function 2/1, 008710de.
Device #11 at bus 0 device/function 2/2, 008810de.
Device #12 at bus 0 device/function 6/0, 008a10de.
Device #13 at bus 0 device/function 8/0, 008b10de.
Device #14 at bus 0 device/function 9/0, 008510de.
Device #15 at bus 0 device/function 30/0, 01e810de.