Re: [NTLK] MP2100 internet over ethernet: something new, something old.

First off:
if the LED on the router is not lit while the ethernet card in your Newt is
ACTIVE, there is something wron in your HARDWARE.
I do have a 3C589D that has a special connector where you can plug an
adapter cable that has the ususal RJ-45 connector on the other end.
The small flat connector that plugs into the card has a LED as well.
This LED is lit only in case the ethernet card is active.
As long as you do not access the card from the Newt via software, the card
is in sleep mode where neither the connector LED nor the connection LED on
the router is lit.
There is a very simple way to check the hardware without having any impact
of the installed software: after a reset the card shall be ACTIVE for a few
seconds.

I do not know how the interface of the 3C589C to the RJ-45 is realised, but
the problem must be in that adapter or the card itself if the simple test
described above fails.

Cheers
Johannes
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Karel Jansens
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 4:38 PM
> To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] MP2100 internet over ethernet: something new,
> something old.

> I'm still (fruitlessly) trying to connect my Newton via
> ethernet to my router, which is connected to my ADSL modem,
> which is connected to the internet. ("the legbone's connected
> to the arsebone...")

> Sofar, no luck, as reported before. When I choose DHCP server
> from the connection slip, the connection times out with the
> message that the server could not configure this device);
> when I select manual setup and fill in the blanks, I get a
> complaint that no working DNS server could be found.

> So I tried something new: previously I had used the UTP cable
> that goes to my desktop to hook up my Newton, but today I
> plugged in a fresh cable in a new slot in the router and
> plugged that into my 3Com card. Funnily enough no extra light
> will come on on the router when I try to connect the Newton.
> So there definitely must be something wrong, connectionwise,
> on the Newton side.

> I would like to stress -- again, and to prevent obvious but
> non-helpful replies -- that all the needed packages have been
> installed on this Newton, even the ones that might not be
> necessary for this type of
> connection: INETSTUP.PKG, INETENBL.PKG, MODMSUP.PKG,
> ISPTMPLT.PKG, NEWTDEV.PKG, ENETSUP.PKG, Farallonethernet.PKG,
> 3comaddon.PKG. I even have LOCTSUP.PKG installed (because I
> occasionally print to a laserprinter with a localtalk card).
> Again, the network card is a 3Com 3C589C Etherlink III card,
> which is fully supported by the drivers (and
> yes: I am using the "3C589" setting for the driver).
 
> So why doesn't the light on the router go on when I try to connect?
 
> Getting pretty desperate here,
 

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