Thanks everyone. CD is a potential option, but I am in process of
obtaining one of those CD caddy things.

I appreciate the heads up about the 10/100 situation. Another thing to
rule out.

Luckily someone read this thread and sent me a floppy-size utility to
get me out of my bind.

Martyn


On Sep 22, 3:47 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've always been somewhat curious as to whether there was
> > one or two
> > specific combinations that didn't work, and it got people
> > on the idea
> > that it was widespread. It'd be interesting to try to
> > compile a list of
> > known problematic equipment on both sides of the equation.
>
> On the Mac side it's mostly Asante brand 10 megabit network cards that don't 
> properly signal that they only support 10 megabit, half duplex.
>
> That can cause problems with 10/100 hubs and switches that rely only on the 
> specific media detection signals that were added to the Ethernet standards 
> with the 100 megabit standard.
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