[plug] Problem with NE2000 card using thin coax.

[David Buddrige]

Hi all,

Got a bit of a problem with ne2000 network cards...

My brother has obtained a number of ne2000 compatible network cards -
one of which we have put into a 486DX-4-100 which will be a proxy server
to allow both of my brothers to browse the web simultaenously..

They have a computer each on their desks (in two different rooms in the
house) - networked together using thin coax cabling.

However it seems their prior owners used cat5 twisted pair cable - I've
got the network card working just fine usnig redhat 5.2 - the machine
recognises the card - and it can ping itself - but the other two
machines on the same stretch of coax (maybe 10 meters length in total)
cannot ping the machine (nor can the linux machine ping it).

Given that we obtained these cards second hand - we don't have the disks
to go with them - and in any case we want to configure it under linux
(the machine is installed with 100% linux - no dos partitions at all).
Does anyone know how to get the things to use their thin coax port
rather than the utp port?  (I've actually had the exact problem at my
own place - I wound up networking the two computer I wanted to connect
using a twisted-pair cross-over-cable - I've not been able to get the
cards configured to use the cat5 conenctor to work over thin coax....

Has anyone seen this before and have a solution? - I've been scanning
usenet / hotbot, but no luck so far... 8-(

Thanks heaps in advance... 8-)

David Buddrige
buddrige at q-net.net.au