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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Sun Workstation problems
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Date: 20 Nov 90 23:41:56 GMT
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cornutt@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (David Cornutt) writes:
> Seems that they look for the transceiver drawing power from the host, and
> if the transceiver is a self-powered device like a DELNI, it refuses to
> believe that it is connected to anything.

	Seems pretty brain-damaged to me, but if that's really the case,
you should be able to fake it out with an appropriately sized resistor
shorting the power pair right in the connector hood.  I don't know offhand
how much power a xciever is supposed to draw, so I don't know if you might
have a problem with heat dissipation.
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