> One thing I can tell you is that the non-working cable has only 4 conductors > crimped. For long cables, should all 8 be crimped?
As I understand it, 10-base-T needs 4 conductors (two signal, two ground) and 100-base-T requires all 8 (four signal, four ground). Someone correct me if I'm wrong! Cheers, ~Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
