Re: Latest BenH kernel supports mixer on TiBook
No, the previous poster just got confused.
This feature is common in enterprise level ethernet switches. The
question is, what happens when you plug one of these into a switch
port that has the same capabilities? Perhaps they just argue
indefinitely over what the configuration should be? What if you try
to connect two tibooks together? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:18:25PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> > > > Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect
> > > > if RX and TX are inverted.
> > >
> > > Cool! Are there any PC card NICs that do that?
> >
> > Sure - it seems my TiBook does, at least a couple of weeks until someone
> > reveals that that was bogus too, but instead it has a built-in
> > coffeemachine ;-)
> >
>
> Are the NICs in TiPbs cardbus or something? I assumed they were built in.
> (I've got a cheapo 486 laptop, and I've never had my hands on a powerbook.)
> I'm talking about being able to buy a NIC that does that, that I can use in
> any random laptop with a PC card (aka pcmcia) slot.
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