Buddha Bart
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I've got a Netgear FS105 switch, and an IBM T23 Thinkpad with onboard Intel PRO100.
On the netgear there are two LEDs sorta built into the RJ45 jack, if the left is lit it indicates 100mbit, if the right, 10mbit.
The switch also has a bank of LEDs to the side, two for each of the jacks. The top is labled "Green=FDX" the bottom "Yellow=Collision".
The laptop also has an LED built into the RJ45 Jack.
Ok, so here's the situation. When I plug the laptop into the switch, the jack-LEDs on the switch are completely dark. The FDX and Collision LEDs blink in a "yellow, green, neither, yellow, green, neither" pattern. The LED on the laptop's RJ45 jack blinks green 1second-on, 1second-off. Windows 2000 detects this so the little "network cable unplugged" word baloon from the system tray is blinking on and off.
I've tried multiple cables, and multiple ports on the switch, and a seperate PCMCIA card on the laptop (which worked). So I've narrowed the problem down to the onboard NIC of the laptop.
My question is, does this appear to be a hardware problem (perhaps the thing got fried in a zap of static electricity) or a driver problem? (I tried reinstalling the driver but windows never cooperates there, it seems to be saying "oh he's just using the same driver, do nothing").
Has anyone seen behavior like this before and know what it means?
bart
On the netgear there are two LEDs sorta built into the RJ45 jack, if the left is lit it indicates 100mbit, if the right, 10mbit.
The switch also has a bank of LEDs to the side, two for each of the jacks. The top is labled "Green=FDX" the bottom "Yellow=Collision".
The laptop also has an LED built into the RJ45 Jack.
Ok, so here's the situation. When I plug the laptop into the switch, the jack-LEDs on the switch are completely dark. The FDX and Collision LEDs blink in a "yellow, green, neither, yellow, green, neither" pattern. The LED on the laptop's RJ45 jack blinks green 1second-on, 1second-off. Windows 2000 detects this so the little "network cable unplugged" word baloon from the system tray is blinking on and off.
I've tried multiple cables, and multiple ports on the switch, and a seperate PCMCIA card on the laptop (which worked). So I've narrowed the problem down to the onboard NIC of the laptop.
My question is, does this appear to be a hardware problem (perhaps the thing got fried in a zap of static electricity) or a driver problem? (I tried reinstalling the driver but windows never cooperates there, it seems to be saying "oh he's just using the same driver, do nothing").
Has anyone seen behavior like this before and know what it means?
bart
