- 10/100/1000 3c940 Problem
- Posted by Carina Ehrmann on August 23rd, 2003
Hello,
do i have to connect my 10/100/1000 3c940 onboard LAN to a 10/100/1000
Switch or is a 10/100 switch sufficient?
Thanks in advance
Carina
- Posted by daytripper on August 23rd, 2003
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:12:25 +0200, Carina Ehrmann <carina.ehrmann@gmx.de>
wrote:
10/100 is "sufficient"
(and likely "financially prudent" for a SOHO user ;-)
You give up the gigabit throughput, but your nic should work fine...
/daytripper
- Posted by daytripper on August 23rd, 2003
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:10:18 +0200, Carina Ehrmann <carina.ehrmann@gmx.de>
wrote:
It shouldn't depend on drivers per se - if it did, diskless workstations that
boot from a network share would be a tough nut to crack ;-)
If both ends are minimally functional and connected with a properly
constructed straight-thru patch cable, you should at least expect the link
leds to light up at each end, even if you never get any of the activity
indicators to light up.
Have you tried known-good, straight-through patch cables yet?
/daytripper
- Posted by daytripper on August 23rd, 2003
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:06:29 GMT, daytripper <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com>
wrote:
(and is now committing the sin of replying to his own post ;-)
Also, if this is an embedded network device, make sure it is not being
disabled by a bios switch...
- Posted by Carina Ehrmann on August 26th, 2003
daytripper schrieb:
It is a Asus P4P800 with 3Com 3c940 Gigabit NIC. I use a cable
"certified for Gigabit ethernet" which should be more than sufficient.
