Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?
phil prentice
philp.cheer at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Dec 11 17:12:09 UTC 2007
Hi, the thing is; is that it works fine with one laptop, but not the other (it
is a cross-over cable that I am using).
Any more thoughts would be very welcome. I will try a few of the suggestions
first. Push comes to shove and I will use the other laptop, but I would
prefer to get the non-working one up and running first.
Thank you very much for your help
Phil
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 16:37, William Hooper wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 11:45 AM, phil prentice <philp.cheer at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks, I will try ethtool. By the way I needed 10Mbps because I'm
> > trying to communicate with an old system which only supported 10. I just
> > dont understand why one laptop works fine and the other does not and was
> > wondering if there was some standard reason why this might be happening.
>
> So you are connecting to a device that isn't a hub or switch? Could
> it be as simple as needing a crossover cable? The one that works
> might be Auto-MDX.
>
> --
> William Hooper
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