[ale] Re:
Robert L Harris
nomad at rocky.orci.com
Sat Aug 23 13:03:03 EDT 1997
> > #2 -- Providing my card is actually dead, I have an older card from Intel.
> >The only markins are "8/16 Lan Adapter". Has anyone seen this marking? What
> >support should I compile in? Can anyone tell me which drivers are Intel
> >besides the Etherworks so i can try them all and see what lights up the
> >card?
>
> I'm not sure but it sounds like this is a token-ring card. Last time I checked
> the only support for token-ring was for a few IBM cards, but I could be wrong.
Figures. Well it turns out to be a mute point.
It seems from my testing with a multi-meter that the PC shop that made my
ethernet cables made one of them as Peer-to-Peer, meaning they flipped
some of the connections. I'm gonna cut the ends off and go back and make
it myself.
Thanks to everyone for all the replies.
Robert
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