ok the question is how do I make the physical layer happy. Could the nic be shot? I feel that everything is ok. I can plug in the other card (eth1) and the light on the modem light comes on. Plug in eth0 and the light goes out. Same senario for the hub. John Miller -----Original Message----- From: Bill Layer [mailto:blayer at qwest.net] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 8:37 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] NIC Card On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:46:09 -0500 "Miller, John" <JMiller2 at dainrauscher.com> wrote: > Well I tried that. If we back up a bit, if eth0 is connect to a hub, > should not the hub light be lit. Yes.. unless that hub link LED is on, all bets are off for communication. It sounds like the card & hub are unable to negotiate a speed setting - I've seen that before. Sometimes the particular combination of card(s) and hub (or switch) will create negotiation issues. Oddly enough, the last time I saw a negotiation problem, it was between a Netgear 10/100 switch and a Netgear PCI NIC. The Netgear parts would negotiate if they were alone, but when the switch was daisy-chained to an second SMC 10baseT hub, they could not get along. However, I swapped in an Intel Pro/100 for the Netgear NIC, and all worked fine. In any event, until you see a link LED on both ends of the wire, don't even waste your time with drivers, etc. Until that phyical layer is happy, nothing else will work. -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.- _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list