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Bad Cabling???
Name: Neil Date: October 26, 2001 at 00:58:32 Pacific
Comment:
I have 3 PC's going into a hub sharing a cable modem. They all connected fine until I got a new NIC (Linksys LNE100TX)in one of them (PC 1). Windows XP recognized/installed the card but tells me no cable is connected, but it is. I get no light on the back of the NIC nor is the hub port it is connected to lighting up.
I took the PC 1 into where PC 2 is and tried using the cable that was connecting PC 2 to the hub...it worked fine (lights were one..it connected). This leads me to believe something is wrong with the cable going into PC 1...but it was working 3 days ago when I had a 3Com card in the PC. I really don't know what could have caused that cable to stop working. Could it be the wiring (straight/crossover) of the cable?
Name: Viper Date: October 26, 2001 at 06:56:05 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like it might be the cable. Take the cable that might be bad and plug it into computer 2 and see if the hub or NIC lights up.
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Response Number 2
Name: danny Date: October 26, 2001 at 07:47:20 Pacific
Reply:
hmmm force the NIC to work at either 100 or 10 Mbps should fix the problem. Some equipment with integrated switch have problem negociating the NIC speed.
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Response Number 3
Name: Joe Todd Date: January 16, 2002 at 04:41:34 Pacific
Reply:
I have the same problem with Linksys LNE100TX, Windows/XP Prof, DSL. No light on NIC, and XP tells me "cable is unplugged" but it is not. Tried a diff. cable, same message. And like you, mine worked for a few days. This is a stand-alone home PC. Any ideas? Thank you.
Summary: If it says that there is a disconnected network cable, there is a disconnected network cable. If you have a NIC and do not have a network cable plugged into it, the icon will stay in the system tray. ...
Summary: i had similar prob. the cause is out of this two. 1. your cable is not crossover. or bad cable. 2. One of nic is dead. switching off your firewalls on both comp will not help but is recomended. ...
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