> From: "Dennis B. Swaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>At 21:52 -0500 3/28/04, Mary wrote:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42717>
That is what I thought, too. I have an original iMac Rev. B, and a G4 iMac Flat Panel. A straight cable won't work between them; I have to use a crossover cable. The explanation I was given is that BOTH iMacs must have auto-sensing for straight cable to work. I don't know when auto-sensing ethernet was added to the iMacs, in the last G3s or only with the G4s?
Only one computer has to have the auto sensing feature. Kind of makes sense, you only have to flip the wires on one end of a normal ethernet cable to get a crossover cable.
You must have an early G4 iMac that doesn't have it. The link above lists which Macs do and don't.
Yep, I have a 15". According to the article, only 17" 1 GHz (and I assume above) FP iMacs have the auto-sensing.
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