Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:01:24 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Solved: Re: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems Message-ID: <20010927130124.A30473@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20010927085626.A29786@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:56:26AM -0500 References: <SEN.1001554857.953365588@news.sentex.net> <to46rtoieir8kfiu9po7gnkoujrg9f5cbh@4ax.com> <20010927085626.A29786@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Aarrrggghhh. Ate lunch with the infamous FreeBSD good guy and trouble shooter Steve Price today. Showed him the new toys which were not working. Moved a cable at Steve's request. And the darn things started working. Don't you just HATE it when all it takes is somebody looking over your shoulder for broken stuff to fix itself? Of my 5 cables one had a pair inverted. I thought I had tested all 5 cables. And may have. Learned in the past a 3Com 10/100 NIC tolerates cheap and/or improperly wired "cat5" cabling better than anything else. It may be that the xl0's compensated for the reversed polarity the Intel/Gateway cards didn't. Problem solved. Old lessons relearned. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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