Ethernet connection???
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- Buckyball2
Just got DSL at the house. Hooked the modem to the wall. Hooked the modem to the PC with the ethernet cable.
Tried to connect. No juice. Doesn't read it.
Rechecked and rechecked all connections. Everything looks good. Went into device manager and it says the port is enabled. Downloaded the latest drivers and installed them for the card.
Any ideas on why an ethernet port would act dead? Is there some other setting I'm missing?
If I hook the modem up via a USB cable, the modem reads it and I get net. And the ethernet cable does work because I plugged it into the XBOX and it went green.
What gives?
Thanks,
bB
- Buckyball20
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- toastie0
use a crossover cable
- Buckyball20
Could you define that please and what it does?
thanks.
- rabattski0
is it a regular utp cable? crossover utp cable is for hooking up machines directly without the use of a router or a hub like thing.
- toastie0
don't confuse him with the UTP crap. :P well, ok. An ethernet cable consists of 4 twisted wire pairs, a crossover cable has two of those pairs switched around on the ends to make it connect directly to a routing point. your DSL box shoulda came with one.
- Buckyball20
I think the ethernet card might be the issue. Any way to test if it is on/working/the right kind of card, etc?
The card is made by Realtek. Came with the computer.
RTL8139(A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series
http://www.realtek.com.tw/produc…
Except that the one on mine is the "A" model. I guess that's just versions.
Should work right?