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Posted by: johnklos on 2020-01-12 20:54:53
Many older NuBus / LC ethernet cards work fine with 100 Mbps and gigabit switches with auto negotiation. However, certain cards seem to not want to work. Some have a jumper which causes the link to stay on regardless of the physical connection.
Does anyone know how to make these cards work with standard 100 Mbps / gigabit switches?
For instance, I have a couple of Asante "MacCon LC-A" version 1.1 cards. I prefer to use them because they have a socket for the m68881 or m68882 FPU. However, I can't get a link on anything. Without the jumper, it gives a blinking link LED, and with it, it gives me a solid link LED, but nothing on the other end either way.
In the past I used to keep around 10 Mbps hubs just for connecting older machines with cards like these. Is this still the most straightforward way?
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Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-01-13 01:23:06
I use a cheap managed switch for my network, which lets me have a block of ports where autonegotiation is turned off and the port is forced to be 10mbit. It seems to work for me but I don't have any *really* abstruse network cards.
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Posted by: Bolle on 2020-01-13 01:48:30
I have an old Cisco 1800 for that. Let's me set port speed and duplex manually and worked with anything I could throw at it so far.
It makes some other fun stuff possible as well because it can still do AppleTalk with the correct IOS version installed.
For example I am running a MacIP gateway on that thing to get Macs online that are sitting behind my Asante Localtalk/Ethernet bridge.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2020-01-13 06:17:44
I think a dumb hub is still the smart way to go.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-01-13 09:31:27
I have my trusty old blue Netgear 10/100. Works as a great intermediary.
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Posted by: MJ313 on 2020-01-13 11:52:15
I have my trusty old blue Netgear 10/100. Works as a great intermediary.
Me too-- I have a little 5 porter that I got on sale eons ago. It has survived multiple purges so now it's just considered a rightful member of the family.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-01-13 13:25:28
@MJ313 Ditto, but 8 port. What's funny is that I have stacked on top of it an 8 port Netgear Gigabit managed PoE switch. The cases are identical, they haven't changed them in all these years. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 🙂
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Posted by: uyjulian on 2020-01-13 20:53:15
If you connect to another computer using a crossover cable or network card that supports MDI-X, you can disable auto negotiation to allow the link to work.
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