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

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Les wrote:
> Hi, guys,
> 	One problem I ran into once was a mechanical issue where the cable
> wouldn't mate properly.  Check the connector on the laptop and make sure
> that the little wire things that comprise the connection are actually
> there and formed correctly.  I had one that was squished or something
> and wouldn't make contact properly.  It would work sometimes when I got
> the connector seated "just wrong", but not normally.
> 
> This is my only possible contribution to this particular issue.  Good
> hunting.
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 
I forgot about that one. You run into it when someone plugged a
standard phone cord into the Ethernet jack... You can do it, but it
messes up the outer connections. But I think the OP said he tried
both the built-in NIC, and PCMCIA NIC.

Mikkel
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