Someone much smarter than I, on Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:14:28PM +1000, spake thus. *SNIP* > > > > > > > >My house was cabled for LAN with cat5 cable when it was built. > > > > > >I have connected a pc to each of 2 LAN wall outlets ( in different > > >rooms) with a straight-through (ie not crossover) cable, and have > > >tried connecting the ethernet switch to each of the 4 outlets at the > > >LAN outlet point at the other end of the cabling in my "Den". > *SNIP* > Why not take the switch to the pc use your straight through cable to > connect pc to switch to see is the lights come on. If it does, it still > might be the card or the cable. I would presume the cable first, easier > to test this. once you do get conectivity then tack the switch back to > the orginal place and connect via your patched cable if it now fails > then its the patch LAN cabling. >
I'd have a good look at the cabling to your wall outlets. it's quite possible that someone has inadvertantly made it crossover rather than straight through. just a thought, -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
