----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 07:19 PM
Subject: Re: 10Base-FL
> A concentrator is the wrong thing to connect it to. Is your concentrator
> something you would normally plug some computers into? If so, it's like
> several transceivers. In other words, you're plugging something meant to
> connect to a computer (the transceiver), into something meant to connect
to
> a computer (the concentrator). That's like connecting two computers on a
> serial line with neither modems nor a null modem cable between.
>
> Does the transceiver have a male 15-pin D-connector? Does the
concentrator
> have a female 15-pin D-connector with a slide lock, or a male one with
> pins? If both are male, they don't match, and it won't work.
Ooops-- I assumed you had one in front of you too. ;) The raylan is a
15-port managed concentrator with (currently) 10bFL hot-swap cards
installed. Maybe concentrator is the wrong word-- that's what was used to
describe it to me. I was going from the tranceiver directly into the
raylan. I'm pretty sure I had Rx & Tx right, as I got a link light on the
raylan, and the error on the transceiver.
>
> BTW, if it's ORnet, it's old, and almost certainly FOIRL not 10baseFL.
The
> size you mention bears that out, too. 10baseFL transceivers are mostly
> small, about half the size of a cigarette pack.
Ok. They have a three-positon DIP switch, labeled `SQE TEST', `ALTERNATE
COLL MODE' and `FULL STEP'. Does that narrow it down?
Thanks!
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
Bob
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 20:56:45 GMT