case project OSI model

[lizalaz]

the computer run only TCP/IP protocol on an ethernet network, and all computer uses 3Com NICs.
one day a student tried to restart the computer but message shows it cannot find the network.
as a networking professional you checked and find out that the student changed the frame type that computer's NIC uses to transmit data from ethernet to token ring.
explain why this has prevented the workstation from connecting to the network.


please help me why?

 

[office politics]

find out that the student changed the frame type that computer's NIC uses to transmit data from ethernet to token ring.

foucus on that. ethernet and token ring are two different types of networks.