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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:25:34 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet troubles (KNE100TX and de0/dc0)
Message-ID:  <20000207182534.A10090@symbion.srrc.usda.gov>
In-Reply-To: <20000207213636.01B5120FB8@infowest.com>; from agifford@infowest.com on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:36:36PM -0700
References:  <20000207213636.01B5120FB8@infowest.com>

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:

> The problem:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> My new Kingston KNE100TX 10/100 PCI ethernet card is not working with
> FreeBSD.  It refuses to work either under -STABLE or -CURRENT.
>
> >From the response to my last post regarding this problem on
> >questions,
>
> I thought it might be a bad card.  I booted the box in question to
> Win98 and the card worked perfectly, communicating with my other
> Win98 box across a crossover cable at 100TX speed.  Whenever I boot
> to FreeBSD, however, the card lights light perfectly (identically to
> the Win98 boot) but no traffic is transmitted or received.  The other
> box remains running Win98.  No hardware changes were made.  The cable
> and card are known to work.  This card appears to be supported from
> all I've been able to glean from the archives.  It uses a DEC clone
> chipset made by Intel, a 21143 chipset.  It is a brand new card.

I ran into this one too. It appears that you can't do full-duplex (which
is what you are doing with a crossover cable) with that card under
FreeBSD. Can you send the card back and get something else? I use 3Com
cards here and they work fine. Perhaps search the archives and see what
cards work in full-duplex mode with FreeBSD.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
Technician
USDA, ARS, SRRC
New Orleans, LA


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