> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:26:29PM +0300, shaul wrote:
> > > - What is the wiring on your cable?
> > 1A - 3B
> > 2A - 6B
> > 3A - 1B
> > 6A - 2B
> > Is 3m long too much for this sort of cable ?
>
> No, it's fine. Are the other wires not connected? Are you sure there
> are no shorts? Is it a CAT-5 cable? (checking it with a scanner would
> be nice if you have access to one :)
I believe there are not any shorts, but I have no way to tell it for sure.
CAT-5 ? I remember seeing category-5 in the Ethernet HOW-TO, but I do not know
what exactly does it mean. Since my cable is a cheap one, I guess it is not
CAT-5.
A scanner ? What kind of equipment is it ? Surly not the radio amateur
equipment used for scanning the spectrum.
>
> > > - Try having the NIC drivers compilied as modules, see whether an
> > > ifdown, rmmod, insmod, ifup cycle helps. With any luck the module
> > > insertion will send a hardware reset to the NIC.
> >
> > Does not seem to help.
> > I also tried (ISOLATE CLEAR) in the /etc/isapnp.conf, which does not help
> > either.
>
> Sorry, other than this and perhaps trying another cable I've no
> more ideas :-(
>
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