10/100/1000 3c940 Problem

Hello,

do i have to connect my 10/100/1000 3c940 onboard LAN to a 10/100/1000
Switch or is a 10/100 switch sufficient?

Thanks in advance

Carina

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:12:25 +0200, Carina Ehrmann <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>do i have to connect my 10/100/1000 3c940 onboard LAN to a 10/100/1000
>Switch or is a 10/100 switch sufficient?

10/100 is "sufficient"
(and likely "financially prudent" for a SOHO user ;-)
You give up the gigabit throughput, but your nic should work fine...

/daytripper

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:10:18 +0200, Carina Ehrmann <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>daytripper schrieb:
>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:12:25 +0200, Carina Ehrmann <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>do i have to connect my 10/100/1000 3c940 onboard LAN to a 10/100/1000
>>>Switch or is a 10/100 switch sufficient?
>>
>>
>> 10/100 is "sufficient"
>> (and likely "financially prudent" for a SOHO user ;-)
>> You give up the gigabit throughput, but your nic should work fine...
>>
>> /daytripper
>
>if i connect my Asus 3com 3c940 GB LAN to my Netgear 10/100 switch, no
>connection is indicated by the leds on the switch, nor on the nic. This
>schould not depend on the o.s., right?

It shouldn't depend on drivers per se - if it did, diskless workstations that
boot from a network share would be a tough nut to crack ;-)

If both ends are minimally functional and connected with a properly
constructed straight-thru patch cable, you should at least expect the link
leds to light up at each end, even if you never get any of the activity
indicators to light up.

Have you tried known-good, straight-through patch cables yet?

/daytripper

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:06:29 GMT, daytripper <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
(and is now committing the sin of replying to his own post ;-)

Also, if this is an embedded network device, make sure it is not being
disabled by a bios switch...

daytripper schrieb:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:06:29 GMT, daytripper <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
> (and is now committing the sin of replying to his own post ;-)
>
> Also, if this is an embedded network device, make sure it is not being
> disabled by a bios switch...


It is a Asus P4P800 with 3Com 3c940 Gigabit NIC. I use a cable
"certified for Gigabit ethernet" which should be more than sufficient.