raintonr;160517 Wrote: > > Yup - connected two machines with it as a test - works just fine. >
This can be a bit misleading though. There are two basic types of Ethernet cables: straight and crossover. A straight cable is going to be pin 1 <-> pin 1, pin 2 <-> pin 2, etc. A cross will follow the weird ethernet cross pattern (I havent had to handcrimp one in ages, so that is now in my useless knowledge archive, fortunately). The trick is that many Ethernet cards (and hubs/routers/switches) know that there are two types of cables and auto-detect which is in use and swap signals around to make either work. The Squeezebox doesn't. It may still not be a crossover cable: could you check the ends? Hold both ends together parallel to each other and the colors of the wires should not match. http://www.incentre.net/incentre/frame/ethernet.html has an okay diagram (with colors!) of the two types of cables. The colors arent really important of course, but the difference between a crossover and a straight-through do matter with some devices. The squeezebox doesnt autoswap, and if the LB2 doesn't autoswap (or is in some contention mode) then it won't work without the right cable. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30375 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
