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Martijn van Buul wrote:

> Another possibility in these days of 100Mbit is that the UTP conector

Even another is this, as least as far as my experience has been: the
card is simply not connected up to a live network. When I've gotten
heartbeat problems with my Minix system, they go away as soon as I plug
it into the home network. This is a system with a plain vanilla 8309 ISA
card.

-- 
All parts should go together without forcing...
By all means, do not use a hammer.
                        -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925.
