> On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Christian Hardmeier wrote:
> > Lately I bought two very cheap Ethernet cards: Planet ENW-2400P. [snip]
> > The sender computer kept saying, "Searching for receiver...", and the
> > receiver said, "Waiting for sender..." Nothing happened.
>
> Are these combo cards, 10Base2 and 10BaseT? If so they may default
> to 10BaseT and ignore the 10Base2 port. Check for jumpers to set
> for BNC mode or a setup program that writes the mode to the EEPROM.
They are combo cards, but you can't configure this. They find out
themselves which one to use. (It even appears as if this worked ;-)
The problem was another one, very simple: The diagnostics program is
broken. If I run Linux on both machines they work just fine.
Thanks to Jason who pointed me to this possibility, and of course thanks
to everyone else who replied or was going to reply with another
suggestion!
Christian