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- From: dmr@medicated.Corp.Sun.COM (Daniel M. Rosenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: How do I enable 10baseT
- Date: 14 Sep 1992 19:49:40 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- In article 2@cs.cmu.edu, rwb@alexander.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Berger) writes:
- > We sent one of our stations to a site that uses 10baseT networking. I have
- > only used thinnet, and they tell me the station did not recognize their
- > 10baseT net.
- >
- > Is there some magic incantation I have to do to switch the machine
- > from thinnet to 10baseT? Or was it supposed to automatically detect
- > the 10BaseT?
- >
- > If I use 10BaseT am I supposed to terminate the thinnet BNC connector?
-
- You needn't terminate the BNC connector in any way.
-
- The NeXT will switch between 10BaseT and thinnet automatically.
- One of the problems you might be having is if the site has old
- 10BaseT, such as an AT&T Starlan 10, that came out before 10BaseT
- was standardized.
-
- The NeXT requires Link Integrity to be on, so you'll have to check
- the AT&T hub. Newer ones have DIP switches on the front that toggle
- LI; turn it on for the NeXT's port. If all you've got there is old
- hubs, you'll need a new one.
-
- It's the NeXT that has standard 10BaseT; the hub is "wrong."
-
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- # Daniel M. Rosenberg Dan.Rosenberg@Corp.Sun.COM +1 415 688 9580
- # Opinions expressed above aren't Sun's.
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