Andrea, I'd try to substitute something to see if it changes the results. I'd try to beg or borrow another crossover cable, or as "Great Dragon", suggests, borrow a hub and two regular cables.
You might learn something by changing out the cards, but that seems more difficult to do with the need to open the case and so forth. The first substitution I'd make is of the cable. Have you inspected the cable? Severe kinks, breaks in the insulation, routed near a source of interference (florescent ballast (traditional or solid state), dimmer, electric motor with brushes, ...)? hope this helps, Randy Kramer Great Dragon wrote: > I don't know the wiring schematics or what might be wrong, but I know a > mildly cheap way to fix it and give you expandibility in the future. 5 port > 10/100 hubs are pretty cheap and two normal store bought cables would fix > it. If it doesn't, then there is probably something wrong with the nic or > the drivers. I've never made a 100BaseT crossover cable but I have made > 10BaseT Crossover and they never failed me. when I make regular patch > cables, 100BaseT works fine, but the hub/Switch does the corssover for me > automatically. Hope this helps and gives you some more Ideas. Its also > handy if you get a hub with an uplink port so if you ever get DSL/Cable > modem going, both computers can access the modem if it only has 1 port. > > From: "Andrea Fabris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi everybody > At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect > them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at > 10baseT cause they "see" a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT > Any Idea?
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