Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?

[Karl Larsen]

phil prentice wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
>   The first thing I would like to say is thank you all very much for your 
> suggestions.  I've tryed various different types of cable and played around 
> with the settings using ethtool, but to no avail.  I think the writings on 
> the wall for me to use the other laptop that already works.  I just thought 
> that there might be some easy solution to the problem (which there might be, 
> but I think its going to take me a long time for me to find it).  Its been 
> interesting though and slightly frustrating, but at least I have got a 
> solution(use the other laptop).
>
> THANKS AGAIN
>
> Phil
>
> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 13:00, William Hooper wrote:
>   
>> On Dec 11, 2007 9:15 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
>>>       
>>>> If it is indeed a cross-over cable, maybe the device is expecting a
>>>> straight through cable?
>>>>         
>>> The standard is a straight through cable for things that are supposed to
>>> be connected together (e.g. computer to a switch or hub) and cross-overs
>>> to things being directly connected together that would normally go
>>> through something else (e.g. computers directly together).
>>>       
>> Agreed.  However, you will occasionally run across a device that has
>> an Ethernet port for diagnostics purposes that is designed to plug
>> directly into a computer using a straight through cable.  Since the
>> best description we have is "old system", I thought that changing
>> cables would be worth a test.  It's not like it is going to cause
>> damage or cost anything.
>>
>> It will be interesting to see the results of Phil's attempts.
>> Hopefully one of the suggestions in this thread will help him out.
>>
>> --
>> William Hooper
>>     
>
>   
    What I can't understand is your saying the special cat 5 cable did 
work for some faster Internet. It should never work period. The normal 
cat 5 cable works with all the computers, switches and routers here in 
USA. There may be some things in the UK that expect the special cable.

    The non-working laptop my well just be that your bringing the 
Internet to it with a wrong cable.

Karl


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