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 -- I have not had anything to do with this hub until recently, have no documentation and could find nothing useful when googling. All the RJ45 ports on the front are MDI-X except port 1 which switches between MDI & MDI-X. The only other ports, which I am not familiar with using, are AUI (15 pin RS-232 female)on the front, Terminal (9 pin RS-232 male) and Expansion (25 pin RS-232 female)on the rear. I have swapped the Cat 5 cable between a variety of ports (16 in all) with the same results: the ones that work, work anywhere, but this one won't regardless of position. Is there a way to see what the card is doing from the FC3 side, or talk to the hub to find out what it is doing and how it is configured? Simon
