Stupid Etherlink III question.

[icbrkr]

I have a stack of Etherlink IIIs (from 3C589Cs to Ds) and the appropriate dongles to go with them.   I've tried using it under Genesis and WB 3.9 using the 3C589.lha driver.  The card is found fine, and Genesis puts it online with no problems, but I never get a link light (and of course, ethernet traffic never goes anywhere).  I'm overlooking something obvious, but what?

[icbrkr]

Bad Dongle? Have you tried it in a PC? Have you created the appropriate entries for DNS and the like? I have used these cards on my A1200 with no problem.

The PC finds it fine as well.  Yes, the DNS entries are fine too (I've got a working PCMCIA card on the same machine as well).   I've gone through 4 cards and 3 dongles.

Do you get a link light?  Is the dongle a 10/100 dongle?

[icbrkr]

You say the PC finds the card, but does it actually send/receive data?



Is that what you're using? It needs to be a 10Mbps-only dongle AFAIK.

This is kind of what I was thinking.   It tries to send, and it doesn't go anywhere (basically ping timeouts, not that it can't open the device for sending).   I'll see if I can't hunt down 10mbps dongles.  Thanks.

[icbrkr]

Welp, that turned out to be the issue.

10MBPs dongles are the only things that work.  10/100s don't.

Now I know.

(and knowing is half the battle)