From: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
To: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
Cc: David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au>,
Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:23:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E09CD6D.5020509@metaparadigm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212250847230.18327-100000@innerfire.net>
On 12/25/02 21:50, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, David Lloyd wrote:
>
>
>>Thank Goodness -- I've worked in places where they INSIST on making
>>crossover cables the same length and colour as normal cables. Then you
>>go, "huh? samba/the network/the kernel" is not working until someone
>>with better eyesight finds the problem.
>>
>>*death to crossover cables*
>
>
> That's pretty lame of them but shouldn't the ethernet link light be a good
> indicator that it's a cable problem?
>
> fix: Dud cable->trash bin "oops was that a crossover? it wasn't marked as
> one."
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.
~mc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-25 15:15 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 [this message]
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
[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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