BNC-UTP combo NIC connectivity

[benico <benicovdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Glugonians

I suspect my trouble getting the 3c90 NIC going (on the HP Kayak)
has something to do with the new driver not using the BNC / co-ax media
correctly.

We are still running on a co-ax network, and the NIC is a UTP / BNC combo.

The old 3c59x driver on kernel 2.2.5 says: 
"3Com Boomerang (unknown version) ..."
when loading, and this is working fine.

The new 3c59x driver on kernels 2.2.14,15 says: 
"3Com 3c509B Cyclone 10/100/BNC at ..." 
and this is not working.

irq's, io_addr's and BIOS setting all the same.

Now for my dumb question (on which I suspect the answer is no):

Will the network work if I plugged a MDIX UTP cable between the HP and the
Tatung, with the Tatung being on the co-ax network ?

In other words: the Tatung's D-Link 220 CT NIC will have its BNC as well as UTP
connections occupied.  Will the data "route" / (transfer) between this card's
BNC-UTP connection to the HP ?


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