All fixed. Sitting at the kitchen table with lappie plugged into the wall socket as I type this.
Turns out my crimping skills were substandard. I made the following mistakes: * Unravelled too much twist. * Misjudged the colour-coding (no, I'm not colourblind) I looked at a plug on a premade cable and saw: White, Orange, White, Blue, White, Green, White, Brown and assumed: Wh/Or, Orange, Wh/Bl, Blue, Wh/Gr, Green, Wh/Br, Brown when it should have been: Wh/Or, Orange, Wh/Gr, Blue, Wh/Bl, Green, Wh/Br, Brown After following the links in one of Nick Rout's replies I learned how to do it correctly. I have learned a new skill - I have climbed another rung on the ladder of geekdom. Thanks everyone who replied on and off-list and thanks especially for some of the off-list offers of help I received. Yuri
