> On 03-02-2005 21:43, Christopher Icha, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: > >> Cross-over-cable to printer doesn't sound good to me. >> What you need is a "straight" ethernet cable methinx. > > One Mac to one printer you'll need a crossover. > Connecting to a router/switch and/or a switch and/or a hub you'll need a > straight. > > >> The beige g3's are funny about switching appletalk >> connections when they don't see something "live" on >> their ethernet port. Mine always sneakily switch back >> to printer or modem when I forget to switch my hub on >> first. grrrrrrr! > > All Macs do so. Clever isn't it??!!?? > My DSL-modem and router/switch are always on. So any Mac switched off will > "awake in ethernet" after restarting. > > HTH, > > Jo > I have finally given up on my built-in ethernet port and gone with a D-Link PCI ethernet card. All my cables and routers and hubs work fine. And it is true that a standard CAT5 "straight-through cable worked fine. So it wasn't anything to do with cables or routers or hubs or switches. It was a dead ethernet port on both of my G3's. Oh, and I shut down my CPU's every night, but leave all my hubs and routers and cable modems on. And I never switch any cables at all, without shutting everything down first.
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