On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:15:11AM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Heracles generated:
>
> >Depends entirely upon what you want to do. If you are only
> >networking two machines together then use a crossover cable
>
> I just want to make a point that not all NICs like crossovers,
I've heard of problems where two nics connected together wouldn't
work, manually setting the speed, etc, fixed the problem. Perhaps
they were both trying to auto negotiate, or they were both trying to
sense a signal on the wire before sending one...
"People are making PCI ne2000 clones! Oh the horror, the horror..."
(from the kernel source :)
I'm using an ISA ne2000's and a PCI ne2000 clone at home and
they work, thats all I care about for home use.
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