Why cant I make my laptop ethernet cards recognise 10Mbs?

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> If it is indeed a cross-over cable, maybe the device is expecting a
> straight through cable? 

The standard is a straight through cable for things that are supposed to
be connected together (e.g. computer to a switch or hub) and cross-overs
to things being directly connected together that would normally go
through something else (e.g. computers directly together).

I wouldn't expect any device to "expect" the wrong type of cable
according to the *usual* ways of cabling things.  Quite a few things
will automatically accommodate using the wrong cable, but I wouldn't
expect that sort of behaviour.

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