On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:09:15PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: > > Acckkkk!!! This cable setup is *not* a valid configuration! > > You must use only 50ohm coax with a terminater at each end, and no stubs > longer than 5cm (most of which is used by the card). Those BNC-to-RJ11 > converters are for an obsolete IBM cabling system, not for Ethernet. I kind of wondered if it didn't have something to do with those adapters. I guess I'll have to try to locate a short coax cable for this setup. > Twisted pair is now so much better than coax that I recommend forgetting > about ever setting up a coax network, and any that still exist should be > replaced at the first failure. > > You should buy a well-marked Cat-5 cross-over cable for your system if your > network cards support 10baseT. If you have a choice, buy either a yellow > cable with molded grey ends, or red cables. I bought these cards because they were available for $10 each at a local computer show. Unfortunately, they only have 10base2 (the BNC connectors), so a crossover connector is out of the question, unless there's some way to convert them. My main concern at the moment isn't to set up a network, but to provide a faster way to transfer files between my notebook computers than either floppies or my parallel port zip drive, and also to learn a bit about networking in the process. Anyway thanks for the help. At least now I know what I need to get to make this setup work. Chuck - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
