From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 22:58:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9AC14BE4 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 22:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA25820; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:01:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911060701.CAA25820@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Connect 2 PC's using Lan In-Reply-To: <85256821.0014C193.00@mail.whtz.com> from "courtney@whtz.com" at "Nov 5, 1999 10:46:41 pm" To: courtney@whtz.com Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:01:45 -0500 (EST) Cc: hdcho@unix.knu.ac.kr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG courtney@whtz.com wrote, > > > was this a crossover cable or a regular cable?? > > you need the cable to have the following pinouts > > Laptop End PC End > Pin # Pin # > 1-----------------------------------------------8 > 2-----------------------------------------------7 > 3-----------------------------------------------6 > 4-----------------------------------------------5 > 5-----------------------------------------------4 > 6-----------------------------------------------3 > 7-----------------------------------------------2 > 8-----------------------------------------------1 > > This in the ONLY cable that will allow the two computers to communicate > without a hub That's not a crossover cable. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message