Hi folks, we powered up the working pizza box and the laser this weekend. At first we got a lot of le0: no carrier - transceiver cable problem? style errors during bootup and in the console window, but they disappeared when we re-seated the AUI cable on the SUN. Unfortunately, that was not all of the problem. If you now try to print to pa3 (which is the CalComp?s name), the job is stored in the printer queue, but there also appear a number of error messages "No answer from host pa3 on parallel port" when you LPQ for it. PINGing for the printer ends up with "no answer from pa3". Is the SUN trying to send the data to a parallel-port printer although the CalComp is on the Ethernet? Peter Turnbull wrote: On the transceiver connected to the SUN, the PWR (green) and SQE (yellow) LED are alight as long as the system is powered up. The only (green) LED on the printer?s transceiver is also on as long as the printer is. If I connect the printer to one of the 3-LED transceivers, the PWR LED is on all the time and the other two give very short flashes when the printer has completed its warming-up cycle and is in ready mode. There are also three LEDs on the back side of the printer next to the AUI connector; two of them (green and orange) illuminate during the warming-up phase, then the orange one goes out and the green one begins to flash. I have not noticed any flickering etc. of LEDs when trying to print or ping. Tony Duell wrote: the cable It is very easy, as the machines stand nearly side-by-side on two neighboring desks and the cable (with the four Transceivers on it) is coiled to a ring and lying behind them. (No, not a very tight ring or one with sharp bends?n?twists in it ) I haven?t yet had the time to try it, but: If I connect the printer to one of the 3-LED transceivers, the PWR LED is on all the time and the other two give very short flashes. However, transmission of data isn?t possible either. Bill Gunshannon wrote: I already mentioned the network ran on our ?piece? until we installed that new tap and transceiver, and that didn?t change it?s length as it wasn?t inserted after cutting the cable apart but only connects by its contacts penetrating the insulating layers of the cable. I know that the length is an integer multiple of 2.5m (2.5m between the black bands and 1.25m between outmost band and terminating resistor on each end) and my guess goes towards a total length of either 12.5m or 15m (5 or 6 times 2.5m). Tony Duell wrote: Bill Gunshannon wrote: As the cable already came from the factory with the bands on it (I was told that), they should have the correct spacing (I really didn?t want to uncoil all that stuff just for measuring!) and on the transceivers that already were on the cable, the band is: -in one case, inside the tap block -in two cases 1 and 2cm out of it (which means ca. 6cm away from the core contactor pin). We placed the new one also in such a way that the band is now inside the tap and not visible from the outside. How about the distance terminator to first tap? I measured here about 1.25 meters, which would be half the tap-to-tap distance. As I don?t know much about signal transmission in Coaxes, does this make as much sense as it seems to? Thanks for all given and coming help on solving this. Arno Kletzander -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net