On Wednesday 20 July 2005 05:20, Simon Slater wrote: > I have a PII running FC3 with a DEC500 as eth0. It has worked fine for > months when directly connected (crossover cable) to another desktop with an > identical FC3 installation but Realtek NIC using NFS, or similarly to a > laptop (Win98) using Samba. These latter two communicate fine through a > Synoptics Lattishub 2803. However when the PII is connected to the > Lattishub, the LINK LED only flashes once every few seconds along with the > DATA, (DATA) & COL LED's. I cannot ping any other host. The cables > (straight through) have been checked. The configuration still allows direct > connection with NFS or Samba which still works fine. > > Does anyone know what the problem may be? Any suggested fixes? > > Regards > Simon Slater. Not familiar with that hub, but could the cable possibly be plugged into an uplink configured port, not a downlink? I've done that before. Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,770 US deaths and counting
