kne100tx problems

andre azaroff aazaroff@redrose.net
Mon Dec 14 15:43:43 1998


 I am currently having some problems with a kingston KNE100TX ethernet card. my
system is running red-hat 5.1 on o TYAN 1564D Tomcat IV motherboard with an
award v4.51PG BIOS and neither the stock tulip (0.87 i think nor the latest 
tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 work from the diag tools all appears to be OK.  once
the interface is up nothing comes in or goes out. The link indicator for
the port shows an active link but the activity indicator on my hub (allied
telesyn MR815T) wont even blip when i try to ping another computer. the ping
responds network unreachable and if i ping this box from another computer the
packets timeout with no response.

here are the outputs:
here is the list of pci devices (cat /proc/pci)

PCI devices found:
Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 32).
Vendor id=11ad. Device id=2.
Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
I/O at 0x6400.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000.
Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=5333. Device id=8a01.
Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000.
Bus  0, device   7, function  2:
USB Controller: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1).
Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
I/O at 0x6000.
Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0).
Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
I/O at 0xf000.
Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1).
Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3).
Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.

here is the output from the log file from insmod tulip.o

tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x6400, c0 00 2c f0 2e 1c, IRQ 10.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 782d advertising 01e1.
eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 2068012, CSR6 816e0002.
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.

the above message is produced with all other options except:
insmod tulip.o options=12 (which produced th following)

tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x6400, c0 00 2c f0 2e 1c, IRQ 10.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 782d advertising 01e1.

ifconfig produces the following output:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C0:00:2C:F0:2E:1C
inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6400

the tulip-diag program provided would not run at all unless i specified the
address of the card.
and finally the output of tulip-diag -p 0x6400 -aem
tulip-diag.c:v1.06 9/18/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Digital DC21040 Tulip Tulip chip registers at 0x6400:
  00004800 01ff0000 ffffffff 00fff820 00fffa20 02000112 816e0000 00000000
  00000000 00000000 00fffab0 00fffab0 00000025 00000000 00000000 10000001
 The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
 The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
 The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward.
 Port selection is MII 100baseTx scrambler, half-duplex.
 ***WARNING***: No MII transceivers found!

If you require anything further please contact me at the email address below.
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