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Subject: Re: Solved: Re: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems
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Brian "Sonic" Whalen
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, David Kelly wrote:

> 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
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