kne100tx problems

[jon@brightconsulting.com]

hi.
thanks to the people who responded with detailed explanations of the problem
and what to do about it.
apparently, the kne100tx card that i bought is a new model which is not compatible
with the version of the driver that ships with redhat 5.2 or 6.0.   it might have been
nice if kingston gave the new model a new model name, but in this case they didn't
go to the trouble.
so when i recompile the v91 of the tulip.c driver, it worked great.
this problem should be added to a faq somewhere, because i'm sure other
people will hit it.
thanks again.
jon

> 
> hi.
> i just installed redhat 5.2 on my celeron 400 processor with abit bx_6 revision 2 motherboard,
> with a kingston kne100tx ethernet adapter.
> but it doesn't work.  i always get an error message like no default root to host when
> i try telneting to another machine on my lan (giving its static ip address).
> as a boot nears completion, right before the loging prompt, my hug shows a lot
> of activity.  after a while, my hub partitions my linux machine off the network.
> i've disabled all of the networking based services that i know about (samba, named, one or two more),
> so i don't know what initiates the activity.
> i tried leaving the linux machine off the network until the boot was finshed, and
> when i plug it back in, i no longer get all of the activity, but the telnets still don't work.
> just for fun, i just switch ip address with another linux machine that i have, and after
> rebooting, the other one is ok, and my celeron isn't so it has nothing to do with that.
> 
> anyway, during bootup, the kernel refers to my adapter as a digial ds21142/3 model tulip
> at 0xe400, 00 c0 f0 3b ae 84 IRQ 12.
> 
> tulip-diag adds something about
> port select is 100mbps SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler halfduplex
> transmit started, rx process state "waiting for packets" tx process state idle.
> 
> i could gather more info, but in don't know what to gather.
> 
> so, question 1, is this likely a hardware problem, device driver problem, or linux problem.
> and what step should i take next to either fix or diagnose the problem.
> and would i be better off just shelling out another $100 for a card that will work with no problems?
> (card recommendations please).
> 
> thanks,
> jon bright