[TriLUG] OT: failed 10/100 switch?

[Vestal, Roy L.]

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The problem could also be caused by the auto-detect feature on your ethernet

card. On nearly all NIC cards you can set the port to be auto-detect, 100
meg 
half or full duplex, or 10 meg half or full duplex.  Keep in mind that many 
10/100 swithes have software settings (or even jumper settings) to go
between 
10 and 100 meg operation.  If your switch is set to 100 meg via  a 
software switch and your card on your PC is set to 10 meg half or full (i.e.

NOT auto-detect) then your card will not communicate with the switch.  I'm 
not sure how to check this on a Win98 machine, but under win2k it's under 
properties of the card in question.
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Win98 depended on the driver/software from the vendor. You will need to D/L
the setup software for the eepro100 from Intel. That's what I had to do on
NUMEROUS 9x machines here at work.