Problem with NIC not connecting to hub.

[Simon Slater]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 05:20, Simon Slater wrote:
> 	I have a PII running FC3 with a DEC500 as eth0.  It has worked fine for
> months when directly connected (crossover cable) to another desktop with
an
> identical FC3 installation but Realtek NIC using NFS, or similarly to a
> laptop (Win98) using Samba. These latter two communicate fine through a
> Synoptics Lattishub 2803.  However when the PII is connected to the
> Lattishub, the LINK LED only flashes once every few seconds along with the
> DATA, (DATA) & COL LED's. I cannot ping any other host. The cables
> (straight through) have been checked. The configuration still allows
direct
> connection with NFS or Samba which still works fine.
>
> 	Does anyone know what the problem may be?  Any suggested fixes?
>
> Regards
> Simon Slater.

Not familiar with that hub, but could the cable possibly be plugged into an
uplink configured port, not a downlink? I've done that before.

Tom

--
	I have not had anything to do with this hub until recently, have no
documentation and could find nothing useful when googling.  All the RJ45
ports on the front are MDI-X except port 1 which switches between MDI &
MDI-X. The only other ports, which I am not familiar with using, are AUI (15
pin RS-232 female)on the front, Terminal (9 pin RS-232 male) and Expansion
(25 pin RS-232 female)on the rear.

	I have swapped the Cat 5 cable between a variety of ports (16 in all) with
the same results: the ones that work, work anywhere, but this one won't
regardless of position.

	Is there a way to see what the card is doing from the FC3 side, or talk to
the hub to find out what it is doing and how it is configured?

Simon