10base-2 to 10base-t media convertor?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:17 PM +0100 5/6/07, Tony Duell wrote:
>  > > I'm in the same boat - Amigas with 10base2 only.  Pretty much anything
>>  > else I have that does networking has 10base2 _and_ an AUI at least.
>>  >
>>
>>  My A3000 came with a network card with rj45, very lucky there.
>
>I am wondering how hard it owuld be to remove the 10base2 transceiver
>chip from the Amiga's network card and kludge on a 10baseT transciever
>circuit. If the former is something standard like an 8392, it should be
>pretty easy.

Personally I wouldn't be willing to risk an Amiga NIC with such an 
attempt, I get the impression that they're fairly uncommon.

	Zane



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