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candtalan
November 13th, 2012, 06:17 PM
Loking at the Samsung Chromebook specs, and picture gallery, I see that the gigabit ethernet connector slot looks somewhat 'T' shaped. (Not at all RJ45 shaped)
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-samsung-550.html#specs

I have not yet used or found out much about gigabit but what I have seen so far suggests it is backwards compatible with earlier connectors, physically at least.

Am I missing something?

mips
November 13th, 2012, 06:48 PM
It probably just uses an external RJ-45 adapter to connect to a normal cable.

The old pcmcia ethernet adapters used a similar setup as the physical size/profile was to small for a RJ-45 socket.

lz1dsb
November 15th, 2012, 04:16 PM
The old pcmcia ethernet adapters used a similar setup as the physical size/profile was to small for a RJ-45 socket.
My brother used to have such an adapter :P

mips
November 15th, 2012, 09:46 PM
My brother used to have such an adapter :P

I actually still have one (3Com) and it works out of the box but I never use it.

lz1dsb
November 15th, 2012, 10:57 PM
I actually still have one (3Com) and it works out of the box but I never use it.

Out of the box, you mean with Linux? I can't remember the exact model that my brother used. But he definitely used it with Linux. Back in the days where it was quite of a challenge to get your hardware working with Linux :)

mips
November 16th, 2012, 10:12 AM
Out of the box, you mean with Linux?

yip ;)