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On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Geovanny M. Ortiz wrote: > Ok, I've put T connectors and terminators at both ends of the cable, but my > notebooks won't communicate. As I mentioned previously, I originally used > both PCMCIA network cards to connect to the office network using twisted > paired cables, both cards can be used with coax as well. Do I need to > change cards' drivers to use twisted pair at the office and coax at home? > I case you are wondering the PCMCIA card I have are 3COM and Megahertz. If the 3COM card is anything at all like my Etherlink III [3c509] combo cards you have to run the 3c5x9cfg utility and tell it which network interface to use. The Megahertz is probably the same way. Otherwise they will keep trying to talk on the 10bT interface and ignore the other altogether. If you can't figure it out you can always buy a hub [my 8 port 10bT hub was under $50] and use it that way. I started with 10b2 and switched to 10bT mainly because my cheap IBM Home and Away card only does 10bT. After switching to 10bT [and moving] I wired the new house for 10bT and have a few ports I can dock with around the place. Buying combo cards really paid off in the long run. ============================================================================ ==== Steve Parker ==== San Luis Obispo, CA ==== Multi-OS & Multitasking ==== ============================================================================