Using a hub will help to make your connections more reliable.
Brad Tober
On Saturday, November 24, 2001, at 12:37 PM, Peter Cameron wrote:
>
> on 11/24/01 11:52 AM, Way at firstvln_at_earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>
>> Has anyone had inconsistent connections from a 3com 3xce589dt X-jack or
>> 3c589d ethernet card to their Mac Powerbook (Pismo 400)? I have tried
>> both
>> cards
>> and recently the UMP2000 has trouble finding the computer. I'd say it
>> connects about 10% of the time. Set up has always been the same.
>> sometimes a reboot of both the Newt and PB helps, sometimes
>> disabling/enabling Appletalk helps, but it is inconsitent. I'm running
>> OS 9.0.4.
>>
> I found this to be a problem with my PowerBook 5300 as well. The PB
> doesn't have built-in ethernet, so I was using a PCMCIA card. I think
> the
> problem has to do with NCU since NTK seemed to connect without problems.
> I discovered that opening the NCU preferences and closing it before
> trying to connect sometimes helped.
>
> Peter
>
>
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