Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 08:07:40 -0800 From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with a KNE100TX PCI NIC w/clone DEC 21143 chipset (Intel clone) Message-ID: <v04210115b4bcb4b943d7@[209.239.239.22]> In-Reply-To: <38965AD2.A7234D60@infowest.com> References: <38965AD2.A7234D60@infowest.com>
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I've come across this exact problem a few times. At first I too thought it was due to an unsupported chipset. It turned out (in about 5 different cases) that the card was bad. Apparently Kingston had a bad run because I've seen quite a few bad ones, and the shop I returned them to had a stack on the RMA shelf. jon At 9:02 PM -0700 1/31/00, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: >Hello, > >I've been wondering if anyone has any experience with the Kingston >KNE100TX PCI ethernet cards under FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE (a mid-January >CVSUP)? I grabbed a new pair of these cards recently (it was a good >deal and I thought I'd recalled someone mentioning that this clone >chipset--and this particular card--worked fine). Since then I haven't >been able to get it to work. When I boot, I see: > >de0: <Digital 21143 Fast Ethernet> rev 0x41 int a irq 12 on pci0.9.0 >de0: 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 4.1 (invalid EESPROM checksum) >de0: address 00:c0:f0:4c:3b:8c > >The card ifconfig's just fine and does detect things: > >de0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.10.54.211 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.54.255 > ether 00:c0:f0:4c:3b:8c > media: 10baseT/UTP status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX >10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP > >I've tried it plugged into a 10baseT hub with known working cables (the >hub LEDs light up correctly as does the card's LEDs), full-duplex and >half-duplex, with a cross-over cable connected to another box with a >working 10/100 card, etc. but in all cases, while everything lights up >and looks connected, zero traffic is emitted and no traffic is >received. I'm puzzled. > >I am concerned about the "invalid EESPROM checksum" bit. Could the >Intel clone chipset be the problem (an unsupported clone chipset)? > >Looking for any input, >Aaron out. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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