Re: [9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

Re: [9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

[forsyth]

if what is on the card really is one of the PNIC variants
supported by ether2114x.c, you might need to add a new vendor/device ID
pair to that driver before it will recognise the card,
and you'll need to decide which of the two Pnic cases it matches.
you can often get that from the BIOS inventory, or use
/sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386/pci (carefully, since it prods the PCI registers).

my Netgear cards with Pnic[2], FA310TX i think, have about the same data rate
as others i've tried, and it's faster than some, so it's not all bad news.
(FA311 and FA312 are completely different devices.)

Re: [9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

[forsyth]

if what is on the card really is one of the PNIC variants
supported by ether2114x.c, you might need to add a new vendor/device ID
pair to that driver before it will recognise the card,
and you'll need to decide which of the two Pnic cases it matches.
you can often get that from the BIOS inventory, or use
/sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386/pci (carefully, since it prods the PCI registers).

my Netgear cards with Pnic[2], FA310TX i think, have about the same data rate
as others i've tried, and it's faster than some, so it's not all bad news.
(FA311 and FA312 are completely different devices.)

[9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

[John E. Barham]

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I've got a LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PCI card.  Model # is LNE100TX-CA, version 4.1.  So far I've tried both ETHER0=type=ec2t and 2114x (based on previous posts) to no avail.

When it boots up, ndb/dns complains about not having an IP address.  (I have a DHCP server running on the LAN which works fine w/ Win98/2k).  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance...

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Re: [9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

[User Dormane]

> "John E. Barham" wrote:
> 
> I've got a LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PCI card.  Model # is LNE100TX-CA,
> version 4.1.  So far I've tried both ETHER0=type=ec2t and 2114x (based
> on previous posts) to no avail.
> 
> When it boots up, ndb/dns complains about not having an IP address.
> (I have a DHCP server running on the LAN which works fine w/
> Win98/2k).  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance...

That card probably has an 82c168 "PNIC" chip on it so neither of those 
types will work.  Believe me, it sucks (look at the FreeBSD driver for 
all of the hackarounds for chip bugs).  I have two of those and even 
Linux-2.4 with all their elves plinking on it I can't get crap rate 
through it, unlike the 21140 I have (at least when I tried it last).

Eric Dorman

Re: [9fans] LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 settings?

[Don]

> I've got a LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PCI card.  Model # is LNE100TX-CA,
> version 4.1.  So far I've tried both ETHER0=type=ec2t and 2114x
> (based on previous posts) to no avail.
Hello,
    Did you try: http://www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/ec2t/index.html ?
Don
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