[dba-Tech] LNE100TX problem

Jon and John,

Well, I went to Office Depot and got a D-Link card. Installed it and
it works. I'll never worry about NICs again!

Thanks, both of you, for your input.

Steve Erbach

On 6/6/05, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> Yeah, kinda... I've had NIC's that don't work, but appear to be working ok
> according to the pc. I've no idea why, although I did hear somewhere that
> there is a power breaker on NIC's in case of a surge through the network
> cable. We had a series of cuts at work one night, repeatedly went on and off
> several times in 30 seconds. It blew one hub, and three network cards.
> Unfortunately, two of those were on servers, so having gone home at 5:30
> that evening, I was back in at 7:30 till 2am fixing them. And I was in again
> at 9am the next day. What a hero :-)
> 
> Anyway, according to the pc's, the cards were working properly, they just
> couldn't see the network. See, there was a point to all that :-)
> 
> 
> Jon