I have a XP SP2 laptop with multiple network cards. I would like to be able
to configure one of these network card so that i can connect a "normal" CAT5
to another computure. I always end up without a crossover cable in my bag of
goodies so please help.

If you have in your bag of goodies an RJ45 plug and a crimp tool you can cut
off the end of the plug and simply swap the orange wires with the green wires
if you dont try cutting the lead in the middle and join the white/orange to
Green/orange, orange to green, white/green to white/orange green to orange
the blues wires colour for colour and the browns colour for colour ( although
blues and browns are generally not used ) you may not quite get 100Mbs/sec
but this should work fine

Hope this has been of help

"Yago" wrote:

> I have a XP SP2 laptop with multiple network cards. I would like to be able
> to configure one of these network card so that i can connect a "normal" CAT5
> to another computure. I always end up without a crossover cable in my bag of
> goodies so please help.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:19:04 -0800, Yago wrote:

> I have a XP SP2 laptop with multiple network cards. I would like to be able
> to configure one of these network card so that i can connect a "normal" CAT5
> to another computure. I always end up without a crossover cable in my bag of
> goodies so please help.

You cant, you either need a crossover cable or an adapter.

Regards

Bill

Yago wrote:

> I have a XP SP2 laptop with multiple network cards. I would like to be able
> to configure one of these network card so that i can connect a "normal" CAT5
> to another computure. I always end up without a crossover cable in my bag of
> goodies so please help.

A standard LAN cable does not make a network between two NICs. You either
need a crossover cable, or a hub/switch/router with a pair of standard cables.

Think of a crossover cable as a passive hub; the LAN-equivalent to a
WAN's null modem. Or, for telephone fans, think of a crossover cable as
connecting a near-end mouth-piece to a far-end ear-piece and vice versa;
while a standard cable connects mouth-piece to mouth-piece (and ear-piece to
ear-piece) and requires a central office to cross the connections.
--
Cheers, Bob

Yago wrote:
> I have a XP SP2 laptop with multiple network cards. I would like to
> be able to configure one of these network card so that i can connect
> a "normal" CAT5 to another computure. I always end up without a
> crossover cable in my bag of goodies so please help.

You will need to have a network card with auto MDI/MDI-X -- a feature that
allows an ethernet port to transparently adapt to either "straight" or
"crossed" signals. Some of the newer network cards have it, including some
cardbus gigabit cards that could work in your laptop.

This is a hardware capability and there is nothing to configure. If you
have such a card it will just work, regardless what you plug it into -- if
you don't, you need your two kinds of cables.


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Chris Priede ((E-Mail Removed))