Mac 840AV networking - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Aug 2006

Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net> wrote:
...
  Pete Turnbull wrote:
  On Aug 7 2006, 17:10, Don wrote:

  The Asante box has an RJ45 on the rear.  The
cable that
 mates to the network connector on the 840AV has that
 funky mini-centronics on one end and an RJ45 *plug*
 on the other.  
 I have a few of those.  No, sorry, the RJ45 isn't a 10baseT connection.
  It's more like an AUI connection, but with a different connector. 
 So, it was just an unfortunate choice of connector
 (for the end that receives the cable from the AAUI)
 on Asante's part.

 Sheesh! 
Even more unfortunate since Sun once used that same type of connector (I can't say
whether it was the same size, never compared them) on one of their SBus networking cards.
It came with two adaptor cables, one with a 15pin Sub-D connector (AUI) and one with a
RJ45 plug and a gender changer (two RJ45 jacks back-to-back), so it obviously could have
had both signal sets on the mini jack, or selected between them by sensing a jumper in the
plug. Mix the two concepts up and I don't wanna know where it ends...

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