[ale] nc100 problems

[James P. Kinney III]

I would be much more suspicious of the network cable than the card. Most
cards won't light up unless there is an electrically good link to
another machine. If you have a meter, check for connectivity. The ends
of the cable are identical for straight through cables so the should
show a connection pin to pin but not cross pins (i.e. leftmost to
leftmost connected, etc.)

On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 15:11, John Wells wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
> This has got me worried.  Went to Microcenter and exchanged.  Came back and
> dropped the new card in....no lights.  Dropped the card that had lights at
> one time in....no lights anymore.
> 
> 
> Dropped the card in another, albeit unstable machine....no lights.  Is it
> possible the first machine was somehow damaging these cards?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> ---------  Original message --------
> From: Joseph A Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net>
> To: John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>
> CC: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] nc100 problems
> Date: 04-28-02 21:02
> 
> > John Wells wrote:
> &gt;
> &gt; Just installed my new Linksys nc100 into an old box.  Booted up
> smoothwall
> &gt; and smoothwall recognized the card was attached and loaded the tulip
> driver.
> &gt;
> &gt; I can cat /proc/pci and see the cards (also lspci -v).  It's up,
> configured
> &gt; on the same net and subnet as my private network.  However, no lights
> on the
> &gt; card and I can't ping anything (get &quot;Destination Host
> Unreachable&quot; errors).
> &gt; I think it might have something to do with my BIOS settings, but it
> seems
> &gt; strange that I could see it in /proc/pci if it were.
> 
> No lights on the card probably indicates a hardware
> problem. Check that the card is seated properly.
> I had virtually identical symptoms a couple days ago
> with a DLink card that wasn't pushed all the way
> into the PCI slot - the card was detected, but
> wouldn't talk, and the link light would not come
> on.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
> Using open-source software: free.
> Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.
> 
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