Still no luck with Kingston KNE110TX

Steve Madsen steve@moonglade.com
Wed Apr 7 03:12:27 1999


I just tried tulip.c .90y from Donald's web site.  The syslog looks
more normal this time around, but unfortunately I still can't get link
status.  The master chip on this card is a KT98100.  Perhaps this isn't
a clone after all?

>From /var/log/messages:

Apr  6 23:57:46 calvin kernel: tulip.c:v0.90y 4/6/99
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Apr  6 23:57:46 calvin kernel: eth2: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at
0xf800, 00:C0:F0:2D:40:E5, IRQ 9.
Apr  6 23:57:51 calvin kernel: eth2: Changing PNIC configuration to
half-duplex, CSR6 01860000.

>From tulip-diag -p 0xf800 -f -e -e -a -m -m:

tulip-diag.c:v1.08 2/28/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Digital Tulip, unknown type Tulip chip registers at 0xf800:
  00008000 01ff0000 cccccccc 00de1820 00de1a20 02200110 01860000 00000000
  00000000 000040e5 00de1a30 00de1a30 0000003d 00000000 00000000 10000000
 Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, half-duplex.
 Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The Tx process state is 'Waiting for Tx to finish'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
EEPROM contents:
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
 ID CRC 0xe3 (vs. 00), complete CRC 3b59d4af.
  * An old-style EEPROM layout was found.
  * The old-style layout does not contain transceiver control information.
  * This board may not work, or may work only with a subset of transceiver
  * options or data rates.
 ***WARNING***: No MII transceivers found!

>From /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor LNE100TX (rev 32).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master
Capable.  Latency=66.  
      I/O at 0xf800.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbfec00.
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    VGA compatible device: S3 Inc. Vision 964-P (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 15.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xfc00.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbff000.
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    IDE interface: PCTECH RZ1000 (buggy) (rev 1).
      Fast devsel.  
      I/O at 0x1f0.
      I/O at 0x3f4.
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 17).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

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