[rescue] Superstack III and Sparc 20

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sat Jul 27 23:46:00 CDT 2002


On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Rick Hamell wrote:

> 	Anyone have any idea why a Sparc 20 and a Sparc 5 will not connect
> to a 3Com SuperStack III switch? I know the port works, I used it and a
> cable to go to a PC. Neither machine will see the network at all. I
> see a link light on the 3Com end after I do "test net" in Openboot. Thanks
> in advance!

Are you letting the switch autonegotiate the ports?  Or, are you locking
them at 10baseT HD?  Sometimes autonegotiation doesn't work as expected.

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Jonathan Patschke
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