| I used to be a systems engineer, and even taught some network courses one time. Of course that was before I became a manager and had the compulsory management lobotomy.
But from what I can remember, if the hardware is all functioning it should ping. So it looks like either one or both of your ethernet cards is faulty or the crossover cable is duff.
So, can you connect anything else to the ethernet card on each computer (cable modem or whatever) and does it work using that? I remember using diagnostic loopback connectors so that a machine could ping itself, maybe you could try one of these.
My bet is that the crossover cable is defective or simply not a crossover cable, where did you get it from and are you sure it crosses the transmit and recieve? |