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OK, the black button on the ethernet NIC is actually the reset button...
You have to press and hold the button for 5 seconds.
Also, try to ping the IP address of the NIC to see if it's not a bad cable
- Remember, 90% of LAN problems go back to the physical wiring! :(
At 08:48 AM 4/24/00 -0400, Scot wrote:
>A bit of follow-up here. I posted this "bargain" originally, and I received
>my printer last Thursday. It's a bit of a dissapointment, and I still have
>some unresolved issues with it. I hope this is useful, because the printer
>is still on sale here:
>http://www.zones.com/cgi-bin/zones.exe/zones/scripts/product/product.jsp?src
>hStyle=RESULTS&productID=122485 for $229.98, and some of you may be tempted
>to pick it up, but read on before you do.
>
>Out of the box, it looked great. The unit was packaged like new, no visible
>signs of use, tons of manuals (separate user, admin and setup guides), a one
>year warrantee with overnight replacement and two-way shipping paid by
>epson, ink cartridges included.
>
>First hint of trouble was an insert that stated that different drivers than
>the enclosed ones may need to be used depending on the type of ethernet card
>installed. There was no hint of what type of card was actually installed,
>but the connections of the card looked different than what the manual was
>illustrating. The main difference was a 10base2 connection on the installed
>card in addition to the 10BaseT one. I later discovered that this card is
>not the latest shipping model, and I have to use older software from their
>web site to control it.
>
>But, the thing doesn't even work. Regardless of the software used, both on
>mac and win, the printer is not seen when connected via the 10BT interface.
>The hub it's connected to shows no activity on the link. Plus, there's a
>button on the ethernet card that's supposed to print a status page including
>the card's model and the MAC address, but that's not doing anything either.
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