LinkSys LNE100TX

Max Freedom MaxFreedom@free-market.net
Wed Jan 20 23:25:26 1999


I installed a LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX in an old Gateway 60 MHz
Pentium running Red Hat Linux 5.2. The system is attached to a 3Com LAN
modem (10base-T hub).

It doesn't work:

# netstat   -i
Kernel Interface table
Iface   MTU Met  RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR  TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
Flags
lo     3584   0     28      0      0      0     28      0      0      0
BLRU

But the system does see the board:

# dmesg
Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f0120
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf146c
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1450
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 23.91 BogoMIPS
Memory: 38904k/40960k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 924k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Linux IP multicast router 0.07.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized

Checking 386/387 coupling... Hmm, FDIV bug i586 system
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ...  ... done
Linux version 2.0.36 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1
Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide0: buggy RZ1000 interface: disabled read-ahead
hda: WDC AC31000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=525/64/63
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A, 1039MB w/83kB Cache, CHS=528/64/63
hdc: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 20156k swap-space (priority -1)
sysctl: ip forwarding off
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
  The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!  Updating PCI command
0000->0005.
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xfc00, 00 a0 cc 22 14 c0, IRQ 0.
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3100 status 7829.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00
floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 1, sector 17, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 1, sector 17, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 34

# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: ATI 210888GX (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0000000.
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor LNE100TX (rev 32).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable. 
Latency=66.  
      I/O at 0xfc00.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbffc00.
  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 3).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

The only LED lit on the card is the link indicator.

Any idea what the problem is?

-Dave