KNE100TX furious activity

[Jason Thomas]

Check messages from 'dmesg', I had the same sort of symptoms when I got the
new intel tulips on the d-link cards i bought, the latest driver fixed the
problems...

 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html

Ed Snible [esnible@goodnet.com] wrote:
> I have two Kingston KNE100TX tulip cards (which work under Win98.)  Under
> Linux, the 'activity' light on both the cards and the hubs flash furiously,
> and the cards can't ping each other.
> 
> Using a SOHOware 10Mbps hub the 'partition' light comes up (indicating a port
> has been found to be faulty and has been isolated.)  Both the SOHOware hub and
> a D-Link DSS-5+ 10/100 "switch" I'm using for test begin flashing their
> activity lights starting when I issue "ifconfig eth0 up".
> 
> I'm using Redhat 6.0 (2.2.5-15, unmodified, with tulip.c v0.89H) on an Asus
> P2B motherboard.  Any advice greatly appreciated -- this is my home LAN, and
> my first Linux ethernet (I work for IBM where life is token ring).  The other
> machine is an Asus socket 7 MB with AMD CPU, Redhat 6.1, tulip 0.89 with
> identical KNE100TX and exhibits identical symptoms.
> 
> I'm attaching the output of ifconfig and tulip-diag.  Any advice greatly
> appreciated.  I've tried using the "options tulip options=" settings to force
> the cards into 10Mbps mode and they exhibit the same flashing 'activity' but
> at 10Mbps.  I haven't tried the 0.91 driver yet (I don't have Linux source
> installed.)
> 
> # /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:F0:3B:66:AE  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:10 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:18
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb800 
> 
> # ./tulip-diag -m
> tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0xb800.
>  Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, half-duplex.
>  Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.
>   The NWay status register is 000020c6.
>  MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d.
>  MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
>    1100 782d 0016 f831 01e1 41e1 ffff ffff
>    ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>    0022 ff00 0870 fff0 0008 ffff ffff ffff
>    ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff.
>   Internal autonegotiation state is 'Ability detect'.
>  
> Ed Snible
> esnible@goodnet.com

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