In my search I happened upon this page:

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c

is this something I need to compile? do I save it as a c file and then make, make install it? Where do I save the compiled program?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm putting Linux Mint 17.1 On a friends Inspiron 1000 and it isn't seeing the wireless. Does anyone have any experience with this? Could someone help?

this is all I can figure to do:

sudo lshw

--snip--
  *-network
             description: Ethernet interface
             product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
             vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
             physical id: 4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
             logical name: eth0
             version: 91
             serial: 00:11:43:38:5e:9d
             size: 100Mbit/s
             capacity: 100Mbit/s
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
             configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.20 latency=173 link=yes maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
             resources: irq:19 ioport:1800(size=256) memory:e4003000-e4003fff memory:28000000-2801ffff

--snip--

:-)~MIKE~(-:

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