From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: davidsen@tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Cc: lkml@filip.eu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:39:22 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301091639.h09GdMap002194@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030109111305.28217B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> from "Bill Davidsen" at Jan 09, 2003 11:15:19 AM
> > > I would hope a decent cable tester would test for effects at useful
> > > frequency. The frequency of a battery is too low to reveal some problems.
> >
> > "Frequency of a baterry"? What the hell is that? Baterry provides direct
> > current, not alternating one... Tester provides it's own testing signals.
>
> Clearly I need to add a smiley for the humour-impared.
>
> The original post you clipped implied that all you needed was a pair of
> RJ45 sockets and a battery, which would do continuity testing only.
Which is exactly what was *required* - we were talking about
identifying crossover and non-crossover cables, which is why I
suggested the battery and LED in a spare wallplate solution, which
works perfectly.
:-)
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-09 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-12-31 2:22 ` OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? Bill Davidsen
2002-12-31 8:47 ` Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski
2003-01-09 16:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 16:39 ` John Bradford [this message]
2002-12-20 13:45 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
2002-12-27 9:59 ` John Bradford
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