I recently acquired an old (looks new though - perhaps only used by someone's grandmother to check her email on alternate Sundays) PCMCIA NIC: IBM Credit Card Adaptor Ethernet 2. I guess that means it's 10 base2. Has a dongle with a rather largish black plastic box on the end with what I guess they call a BNC connector (female) on it. Of course I can't plug any sort of coaxial cable directly into my fairly new hub, which has only rj45 plugs on it. So, I'm just wondering if there are BNC to rj45 adaptors that could help me get this card operational on my network? Any other gotchas involved in trying to mix coaxial and UTP networking stuff?
Relatedly, while researching adaptors I ran across some thingies and am just trying to confirm what they are and what they do. These are a plastic housing that covers a plug for DB9 or DB25 ports, and in the housing is an rj45 jack. It looks like these things are made for plugging UTP network cables into serial or parallel ports. Has anyone seen or used these? Can anyone help me understand what they are for? Are they for doing networking via serial or parallel port, as opposed to through a NIC? Thanks for any help in clarifying this dilemma. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
