[plug] Problem with NE2000 card using thin coax.

[Tony Clark]

Sounds like you may not have any terminators on the end, or the cards have been
set to use the base10 port only...not autodetect..You get terminators first as
you will need them anyway.  That still doesn't work I guess you will have to
find the setup uitls for the cards...


On Tue, 02 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> 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
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