Subject: Re: Connecting to a 10/100 Hub
From: mike cullerton (yellowdog@cullerton.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 08:30:03 MST
--On Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:04 AM +0000 John Doyle
<smials@claramail.com> wrote:
> I have a Umax S900/YDL2.1 which has worked very well with a Netgear
> 10Mb hub through the standard ethernet interface. I use a fixed 192.168
> IP address for this purpose.
>
> I just bought a Linksys 10/100 hub and can no longer connect to the
> network, even though the hub correctly recgnises a 10Mb connection -
> ping just returns host unreachable. The interface does work as I can
> connect to the hub in both MacOS X and 9.1.
is the umax just a straight 10M ethernet or 10/100?
if it's 10/100, you can use ifconfig to force the media type. try 'man
ifconfig' and look for 'media type'. it's possible the card and hub aren't
autosyncing well with each other.
-- mike cullerton yellowdog at cullerton dot com
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