Recent content by cowboy405

So Roger was right. Simple test. Run an alternate cable to the offending node. If collisions disappear, cable is the culprit. Could have caught it quick. Rely on tech support that suggests simple solutions first, but MAKE 'EM STAY ON THE LINE WHILE YOU TEST THEM, hehe. Dennis

Ain't no such think as Cat5 stranded. Don't try to run 100 mb on this. . . . . more than 17 feet anyway. You have indoor, telephone wire. Dennis

Hmmm, sound to me like: Your pinout from the router to the wall jack is not 568A or B standard. Your nic in the PC is 10 MB and your docking station is at 10 MB. When you try your pc card in the wall jack it's trying to TX/RX at 100, it gets return packets, but no data. If you can hard set...

Welllll, Mac's using appletalk do not use the physical(MAC) address of the nic installed in them. Appletalk advertises a software originated physical address to see if it is in use. If not, that's the physical address assigned to the node. This physical address is not ethernet compliant. So...

You'll find your problems solved by replacing the video card. You didn't tell us whether or not you've tried the same monitors on on different machines. That's your first diagnostic tool. Dennis

Sounds like a speed mismatch. Check your SIM's for speed on the original and your upgrade. Parity is also a problem, only if there is a parity mismatch. Gotta keep things equal in the banks. Dennis

Use the IDE port. DOS, did you set the drive as active? If not, it won't boot to it. Also, check to see if you have an AGP video card. If so, ditch it. Replace with something else and I think you'll have a clean install. Dennis

If you get link lights, the card is fine. Network to your machine, not the router. You're connecting via a hub or a crossover cable? Anyway, you have a Nic on your machine with a static ip address. Have him imput that ip address as the gateway on his machine. Dennis

After you get the NDIS 2 driver for your nic, you still need a client on your boot disk to communicate with Win networks. Microsoft does provide this dos client. I found it about a month ago at: http://oem.microsoft.com Sign up, it's worth it. Dennis

Test Question, Has everyone figured out why an ethernet hub works just fine in a MacIntosh network and an ethernet switch doesn't? Hmmm? Dennis

Hurray!!! It's all still really a dos based system. Every tech should be study dos. Good solution Zach. Dennis

Uh, is your outside IP address in the range and your subnet identical to the subnet inside the network?

Don't be a vouyer. They're getting their work done. Dennis

Be sure both nic's are at half duplex. Hubs do not support full duplex, and a duplex mismatch will produce exactly what you describe.

Hi Stevieboy, I can't find your switched hub on Planet's homepage. But from the little I can find, they have 2 10/100 uplink ports, the other ports are at 10. The "switch" function is apparently between the 10 ports and the 10/100 uplink ports. The machines on the 10 ports are...