Ok i've always been able to hook up two windows computers with an ethernet cable and they create a local network and assign ip addresses. Can i do this with a Mac Book and my desktop? We tried assigning ips with no luck. Both computers just show "cable unplugged".

9/25/2008 12:24:40 AM

oh boy.

9/25/2008 12:25:07 AM

step 1) buy a crossover cable (i'd suggest making one, but i'd be willing to bet you couldn't)
step 2) plug each end into each computer
step 3) assign IPs from private address space to each machine (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24)
step 3) ...
step 4) profit

9/25/2008 12:28:21 AM

^you don't need crossover cables anymore. Atleast for windows that is. You can use a regular ethernet cable and windows will automatically set ips and create a lan. Does OSX not work the same way?

9/25/2008 12:30:05 AM

...the operating system has nothing to do with it. learn the OSI model.

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 1:08 AM. Reason : .]

9/25/2008 1:07:58 AM

i'm pretty sure macs have been auto-MDIXing for a long time now. you shouldn't need a crossover cable unless your mac is like 10 years old.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2274?viewlocale=en_US

9/25/2008 1:16:01 AM

Ok then why can i get any two windows computers to work, but not a windows and OSX computer to work?

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 1:18 AM. Reason : .]

9/25/2008 1:17:41 AM

http://pdf.euro.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/applepdf.woa/wa/document?country=uk&pn=macpc_cab

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 1:25 AM. Reason : /]

9/25/2008 1:22:56 AM

oh wow, i didn't know you don't need a crossover cable anymore.

9/25/2008 1:26:42 AM

ok we just tried it with my other roommates macbook and it worked fine. Must be an issue with my friend's new macbook.

9/25/2008 1:29:34 AM

Figured it out. Friend just got his macbook and pin6 in the ethernet port was bent down, and wasn't making a connection with the cable. He never had used his ethernet before today. Guess he got a defective port.

-Apple fails. My first ipod touch had dust under the screen, and my friends laptop had a bad ethernet port!!!! And to think the apple store wanted to charge me the restocking fee to get an ipod without dust under the screen!

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 2:28 AM. Reason : ..]

9/25/2008 2:01:11 AM

*shakes head at this thread *

9/25/2008 2:28:29 AM

Quote :

"And to think the apple store wanted to charge me the restocking fee to get an ipod without dust under the screen!"

if you brought it back within a year, i call BS on the restocking fee. They have never even tried to charge me anything for replacing an item still under warranty

9/25/2008 7:30:42 AM

^apple always has tried to charge me for shit.

their customer service and warranty claims are the worst.

9/25/2008 7:40:38 AM

i accidentally made a crossover cable a couple weeks ago and both computers and the router recognized it and compensated

it was pretty baller

of course, i fixed it just because it would have bothered me indefinitely

9/25/2008 7:48:00 AM

^^^I bought a 2G iPod touch. Opened it in the car and saw the dust under the glass. Went back in. And it took like 25 minutes to finally get the manager to not charge me for the restocking fee. He said he had to charge it because still worked and the dust wasn't hindering operation.

9/25/2008 1:46:45 PM

Quote :

"(i'd suggest making one, but i'd be willing to bet you couldn't)"

jesus christ...

9/25/2008 1:55:16 PM

i've made one before but you don't need them anymore. He's the one that suggested it when one wasn't needed.

9/25/2008 1:58:47 PM

self pwnt with the crossover cable insult.

9/25/2008 2:21:39 PM

if the nics both report "cable unplugged," one would assume the cable you are using isn't working for some reason

modern machines will in fact handle connections that need to have the tx/rx pairs swapped w/ auto-mdix just fine. the hardware handles this. it shouldn't say "cable unplugged" in this situation. it should have link but not get a response to its dhcp discover packet and report it as such.

that's why i recommended a crossover cable.

9/25/2008 2:30:38 PM

Everyone in this thread had to learn about crossover cables and auto-mdix at some point

9/26/2008 6:36:41 PM

still gotta know when to use them in case some jackass turns auto-mdix off. (or your taking certs and they ask you to work under the assumption that some jackass turned if off)

9/29/2008 3:23:14 PM