On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:55, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has ideas here... > > I bought a cheapo 10/100 switch for home to replace my old 10MB hub. The > switch connects two desktop machines (one Win98, one Debian) and one > firewall/router/etc. (debian). All have 10/100 cards in them (IBM eepros > in the debian machines, HP something or other in the Win98) and the > network works fine on the 10MB hub. > > I switched over to the 10/100 switch and communication with the Win98 > machine died. The link LED came on, and I rebooted the Win98 machine > (since that's how you usually fix those :)), and still nothing. Moving the > plugs back to the hub fixed everything. > > Am I looking at a DOA switch, or could something else be going on?
Are you using in wall wiring? I had the same problem when I switched to 100Mb at home. I did the network wiring myself during construction. One run worked fine at 10Mb but not at 100Mb. Since it's a lot harder to pull wires now, I just live with 10Mb on that jack. Ken > > Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
