On November 9, 2004 1:54 pm, Geraint Searle - Web wrote: > I have an Apple Macintosh SE & an Apple Macintosh SE/30, both have Asante > NIC > Installed & they have no problem negiotiating 10Mb with a Netgear 10/100Mb > Switch (DG834G) which I have. <snip> You probably have later model cards that understand the negotiation mechanism. This problem hit me with two SparcStation 10's, the SS10's have an onboard 10BaseT nic from AMD, one worked fine with a linksys switch, the other refused. putting a hub between them solved the whole thing.
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