From: daveman@bellatlantic.net
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 04:45:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227094506.GA2117@bellatlantic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ubs3aj950.fsf@zork.zork.net>
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote:
> commence Jeff Garzik quotation:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:23:25PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> >> Or take a two second look holding both RJ45 connectors next to each other
> >> connector side up. If the colours are in the same order on both - it's
> >> straight through. First and third are swapped - it's a crossover cable.
> >>
> >> Once you learn this simple trick, you'll never have a problem again -
> >> just get used to spending the extra two seconds before using the cable.
> >
> > Works great for people without color-blindness...
>
> Depends on the type of colour-blindness, I suppose. The colours used
> in Cat-V are green, orange, blue and brown, from what I recall. I
> forget the various types of colour-blindness that exist.
Well, if all else fails, you could always pick up a cable tester. They can tell you lots of nifty stuff, like data transfer quality as well as pinout. Good for the less obvious cable problems, like a broken strand.
--David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-27 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-20 13:45 OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? Jurgen Kramer
2002-12-20 18:29 ` Ben Greear
2002-12-20 18:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-20 20:15 ` Wes Felter
2002-12-20 21:06 ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-12-20 21:08 ` Dax Kelson
2002-12-20 21:13 ` Eric Weigle
2002-12-21 12:44 ` Jurgen Kramer
2002-12-21 17:28 ` Sampson Fung
2002-12-23 12:17 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-12-23 14:50 ` nick
2002-12-23 17:23 ` Eric Weigle
2002-12-23 17:28 ` Justin Cormack
2002-12-23 17:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-24 1:43 ` nick
2002-12-23 18:57 ` Daniel Egger
2002-12-25 6:03 ` David Lloyd
2002-12-25 13:50 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-12-25 15:23 ` Michael Clark
2002-12-25 17:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-25 17:33 ` Sean Neakums
2002-12-27 9:45 ` daveman [this message]
2002-12-27 9:59 ` John Bradford
[not found] <fa.io6mq9v.11gou0n@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-31 2:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-31 8:47 ` Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski
2003-01-09 16:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 16:39 ` John Bradford
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