Is it a crossover cable? That's what you need, not just a regular E/net cable. Gary David George Hogg wrote: >Hi All, > For some reason, I have plugged in my ethernet cable between my pc and >mac laptop and the connection is just not active. The mac says there is no >connection and win xp says the cable is not plugged in. It's not the pc as I >have tried it with two different pci adapters. >Please help :-( >David. > > > >