Turns out the pins weren't really bent. A couple were just "shifted" to the adjacent slot. They popped right back into their proper places nice and easy.

This is in stark contrast to the NICs I get at work, where someone tries to plug an RJ-11 jack into the RJ-45 hole, bending the two outer pins so that the card quits functioning. I'm so relieved the Empeg is OK.

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Tony Fabris