Again, cross-over cable! ----- Original Message ----- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wed Jun 03 17:25:17 2009 Subject: Re: ethernet card not working
On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes >> to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that >> both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable >> works also, just not freebsd-freebsd. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the case and how to fix it? >> > bad cable or not swapped at all. > > between 2 computers you have to make swapped cable on one side put green > pair in place of yellow, yellow in place of green, brown in place of blue > and blue in place of brown. > > If it's 10 or 100 Mbps ethernet blue&brown doesn't matter, only 2 pairs > are used. > The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from freebsd to freebsd. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font>
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