phil prentice wrote:
Hi everyone
The first thing I would like to say is thank you all very much for your
suggestions. I've tryed various different types of cable and played around
with the settings using ethtool, but to no avail. I think the writings on
the wall for me to use the other laptop that already works. I just thought
that there might be some easy solution to the problem (which there might be,
but I think its going to take me a long time for me to find it). Its been
interesting though and slightly frustrating, but at least I have got a
solution(use the other laptop).
THANKS AGAIN
Phil
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 13:00, William Hooper wrote:
On Dec 11, 2007 9:15 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
If it is indeed a cross-over cable, maybe the device is expecting a
straight through cable?
The standard is a straight through cable for things that are supposed to
be connected together (e.g. computer to a switch or hub) and cross-overs
to things being directly connected together that would normally go
through something else (e.g. computers directly together).
Agreed. However, you will occasionally run across a device that has
an Ethernet port for diagnostics purposes that is designed to plug
directly into a computer using a straight through cable. Since the
best description we have is "old system", I thought that changing
cables would be worth a test. It's not like it is going to cause
damage or cost anything.
It will be interesting to see the results of Phil's attempts.
Hopefully one of the suggestions in this thread will help him out.
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William Hooper
What I can't understand is your saying the special cat 5 cable did
work for some faster Internet. It should never work period. The normal
cat 5 cable works with all the computers, switches and routers here in
USA. There may be some things in the UK that expect the special cable.
The non-working laptop my well just be that your bringing the
Internet to it with a wrong cable.
Karl
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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