Subject: Re: SPARCclassic "AUI" pinout
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: elliot d schlegelmilch <elliot@rightnowtech.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/04/2001 13:16:42
it may be worth noting, that in my brief search, i found a diagram for
and aui to aui crossover cable.
-e
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:07:48AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:48:19 -0700
> From: "Don Yuniskis" <auryn@gci-net.com>
> Message-ID: <001101c13572$2f03b300$275c20d0@George.WDMSetc.com>
>
> | Does anyone know the pinout of the network connector
> | on the classic (*not* the RJ45)? Or, have a mating
> | transceiver that can be examined to deduce same?
>
> The answer to that was just provided - but why would you want to know?
>
> Unless you're planning on building your own transceiver, the pinout of
> that particular connector is basically useless. AUI connector pinouts
> (as distinct from the mounting brackets) are one of the more precisely
> standardised interfaces around - any 10Mbit/sec transceiver ever made
> (for 10base5, 10bse2, 10baseT, 10baseFL - maybe others) will connect,
> directly, or via an AUI cable, to that connector - nothing else will,
> nor would it be sensible to try connecting anything else.
>
> kre