Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:06:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Solved: Re: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems Message-ID: <20010927200553.B70785-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010927130124.A30473@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Fluke Fluke Fluke Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity 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 > ===================================================================== > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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