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if I take a Cat5 cable direct from the network socket of the PC to the Karma, can I make it work, do I need a crossover cable and how do I configure it?


If you take a crossover cable, and you've got the PC configured to use automatic IP addressing and if the Karma is configured to use automatic IP addressing, then they should both pick addresses in the 169.254.x.y range, and it oughta "just work".

YMMV of course.
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