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

[William Hooper]

On Dec 11, 2007 9:15 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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).

Agreed.  However, you will occasionally run across a device that has
an Ethernet port for diagnostics purposes that is designed to plug
directly into a computer using a straight through cable.  Since the
best description we have is "old system", I thought that changing
cables would be worth a test.  It's not like it is going to cause
damage or cost anything.

It will be interesting to see the results of Phil's attempts.
Hopefully one of the suggestions in this thread will help him out.

-- 
William Hooper