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Date:      Sat, 07 Feb 1998 09:45:49 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCMIA ethernet cards 
Message-ID:  <199802071745.JAA17641@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <323.886812406@gringo.cdrom.com>
References:  <323.886812406@gringo.cdrom.com>

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In article <323.886812406@gringo.cdrom.com>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:
> I had no such luck.  We couldn't even get the link light on the hub to
> go on, and the card had both TX and RX lights continuously
> illuminated, indicating a major malfunction (to use a little
> challenger-speak).

You're still talking about the LinkSys card, right?  It's normal for
both those lights to be on.  Tx doubles as "power-on".  It blinks
_off_ when transmitting.  Rx doubles as "link".  It blinks off when
receiving.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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