[WinMac] Re: How to check if ethernet card is working

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 20:54:34 -0500

>2) My ethernet cable has "cat .5 utp 24awg 4pairs (UL) E138922 AWM 2835 CSA
>LL81295 FT4 ETL Verified EIA/TIA-568A Cable Master D81226" text on it. Does
>connection between Mac and PC require different cables?

Yes! If you are connecting the machines together with ONE cable, not
using a hub, it has to be a CROSSOVER cable. Available at any CompUSA for
about $12.

Next item. Macping is a great little utility to see if TCP/IP is bound to
your network card. Make sure both machines have correspoinding IP
addresses (the first 3 octets, [groups of 3 digits] have to be the same
and the last ine has to be different. And you subnet mask has to be
absolutely the same. This is asuming you're using a Class C address which
is the most common one). DAVE uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP, not NetBUEI so
you need to set up both mahcines with valid IP addresses.

Get Macping (available at a lot of places, email me directly if you can't
find it), then give your NIC an IP address and try pinging that IP
address. IF it pings, TCP/IP is successfuly bound to the card and you
should be good to go...

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

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