This is not a iputils problem, but it wasn't obvious where to post this. Linksys LNE100TX is a tier 1 network card, but the latest 4.1 version of that card doesn't get recognized. It has been posted in various newsgroups that this has been solved by using a newer version of the tulip driver.
The newer tulip driver is known not to work on other cards, we have been told. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13574 ***