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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:02:26 -0700
From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
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Subject: Troubles with a KNE100TX PCI NIC w/clone DEC 21143 chipset (Intel clone)
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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.


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