[plug] Problem with NE2000 card using thin coax.

[David Buddrige]

Thanks all for the help on this one - I'll give a few of these ideas a go 
next time i'm round at my brothers (sometime this week)... will let all 
know how it goes... 8-)

thanks heaps for the suggestions... 8-)

Dave...

-----Original Message-----
From:	David Campbell [SMTP:campbell at torque.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 1999 7:32 AM
To:	plug at linux.org.au
Subject:	Re: [plug] Problem with NE2000 card using thin coax.

Date sent:      	Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:57:10 +0800
From:           	David Buddrige <buddrige at q-net.net.au>
To:             	Bob Ogden <bob at contact.omen.com.au>, plug at linux.org.au
Subject:        	Re: [plug] Problem with NE2000 card using thin coax.
Send reply to:  	plug at linux.org.au

*snip*

> Now, we had a couple 'o ne2000 cards - we installed one which was plug 'n
> pray - but our prayers remained unanswered.  We installed another (older
> card), and were able to get it talking to redhat.

At this point, fire up ping in one virtual console pointed at the
other machine. Most network cards these days have an activity light,
providing everything is connected up correctly you should see the
light "blip" on every card on the network.

Secondly, using "ifconfig" command you can look at the network device
counters and see whether the packet is making it out onto the network
cable or is being mauled somewhere.

Also check your terminators, I bought some from Dick Smith to only
find they were junk (twisting the metal end cap made them work/fail,
extremely touchy). Went for another source and worked perfectly.

Hopefully this may shed some light on the problem.

David Campbell
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