Hi. On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:48:52 -0500 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:44:19 +0300 > Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:30 -0800 > > Pete Ley <peteley11...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't you need a crossover cable to do that? > > > > Unless they installed really braindead 15-years old NICs at both > > laptops - no, one does not need crossover cable. > > Although, given the existence of some horrible companies like D-Link, > > Trendnet and Ahteros (to name a few) - I won't be surprised. > > Atheros is a horrible company? I thought they were rather well > regarded. Clearly you're lucky by not encountering anything that's using atl1c kernel module. That card was the reason alone I use backported kernel on my laptop, and it has some hiccups even then. And, back in the old days, stock Debian 2.6.18 suffered from the random kernel panics then using atl1 kernel module. They fixed as far as I can tell, but I have a good memory. > And I've used a number of Trendnet products, and they've > worked well for me - cheap, but did the job. Trendnet's unmanaged 1Gb switches actually manage to process whopping 200 Mbps maximum. Heck, maybe they buy counterfeit ones where I work, but somehow I doubt it. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150227092921.91df92bf23c29076a0e0d...@gmail.com