[tulip] 10baseT card only works with 10/100 Mbs hubs

Nate Summers nsummers@gw.bsu.edu
Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:59:29 -0500


I have serveral SMC Etherpower 10 Mbs cards (21041 chipset) and have noticed an interesting problem - they run great on one 10/100 Mbs hub (at 10 Mbs of course) but do not work at all with any other hub. (I've tried several.)  I don't even get a link light!  I've tried several different cables, and they all with great with the 10/100 hub but not at all with any of the others.

The regular 10baseT hubs are of diverse types and brands.

 It's the only 10/100 hub that's available to me at the time so I can't check to see if it works with other 10/100 hubs.  

Thank you for any insights you may have.

Rockwalrus