Stupid Mac Ethernet question

[Brad Parker]

"Richard A. Cini" wrote:
>
>            The strangest thing happened to my Mac IIci - the Ethernet
>connection no longer works. 

I may be way off base, but I've have some odd troubles over the years with
older 10-baseT interfaces and some "switches".  Usually these switches claim
to be some sort of 10/100 hub.

I suspect the real problem is that one side or the other is not properly
advertising as per the x-baseT specification and the negotiation fails.  But
it doesn't really matter to you or I when we need to get the link light lit.

My solution is to find a plain old 10-baseT only hub (hard to find these
days) and connect it in-between the older device and the newer hub.
This fixed the problem for me.  I don't know why.

(I actually suspect the hub - I'd be curious what 10/100 hub you are
using - some chipsets are not quite compliant in my not-so-humble
opinion).

I'd be curious to hear how this resolves.

-brad