[tulip] Kingston KNE111TX Full Duplex LED

[John Connett]

I have tried using a Kingston KNE111TX with the following driver
versions:

    tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99    Redhat default
    tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000       Latest Scyld stable
    tulip.c:v0.92t 1/15/2001      Latest Scyld development

and it appears that the Full-Duplex LED on these NICs does not
indicate Full-Duplex operation.  Instead it appears to flash in time
with the Activity LED but with a slight delay.

I contacted Kingston and this was included in their reply:

> We've been able to locate the cause of this issue. The problem is with the
> driver. It's misinterpreting the FDX LED as the Activity  LED, that's why
> they blink  synchronously. As far as performance is concerned, there's no
> negative effect on the performance of the NIC.

I asked them if they had a patch or could point me to documentation that
would enable me to fix it but have not yet received a reply.

Does anyone have a patch that they are willing to share?  Perhaps for
another PNIC-II based NIC?

Thanks in anticipation
--
John Connett (jrc@art-render.com)