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Date:	Sat, 8 May 2004 15:10:18 PDT7
From:	"Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Peer Network Problems...

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On Sat, 8 May 2004 00:39:30 PDT7, Steve Schiffman wrote:

>> I did as suggested -- in fact, had determined that I would do so before your
>> note arrived -- and I now have a functioning peer network running OS/2.
>
>Good. Now we can work on figuring out why the Linksys PCcard is not working.

Yeah, I'm a lot happier camper now that things are communicating at 10BaseT
speeds. Of course, the original goal was to get things running at 100BaseTX
speeds and that remains the ultimate objective.

>Your lan cable is probably not the problem. You have the latest and
>greatest, and if it was sold as a lan cable, it is has the correct
>standard, particularly since it lists the cable as CAT5e. But just in case
>the new cable has a bad connector termination, try using the previous lan
>cable you were using. The previous cable should work just fine.
>
>I just re-read your post (first paragraph above) and unless you changed
>the lan cable from the new cable to the previous one when you re-installed
>the EtherJet PC card, the new cable is just fine.

Well, there is an issue with this. The Linksys card has a dongle that accepts
one end of a standard cable. The new cable is plugged into the dongle on one
end and into the hub at the other end. The IBM EtherJet card interfaces to a
special plug which incorporates a very thin, very flexible ethernet cable which
has a standard plug on the other end. That end is plugged into the hub. So, I
can't really compare operation of the cable with the two cards.

If push comes to shove, I'll buy a new Linksys LNE100TX card for the desktop
system. During boot, the driver reports that it can drive either a LNEPCI or
LNE100TX card. I believe (I haven't looked in several years) that I'm running
an LNEPCI card. The change wouldn't be very expensive; it would achieve the
desired objective, but it wouldn't actually solve the problem we are trying to
address.

Thanks for your help, so far.

--gary
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