you're 100% sure the cable is 50 ohm cable (not 75 or 93)?


On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Jarom=EDr Dolecek wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using one of the i82586-based Ethernet network cards - driver
> is not in tree yet, but the thing should behave similarily to e.g.
> el(4), ai(4) or ix(4). I keep getting "detected incorrect termination"
> warning.
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> The cable I'm using seems to be okay, the line is properly terminated
> by 50 ohm resistor on each end (checked with voltmeter/ohm-meter).
> I checked that card on the other computer is set to use 10base2/BNC
> to avoid possible link-detection problems.
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> The card I'm testing is really old - didn't old ethernet cards
> require other type of resistor or something ?
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> It's entirely possible just the driver I've written is incorrect, too :)
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Jaromir
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> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolece=
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