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Networking Color Classic to modern MacOS X
Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2020-07-21 07:19:37
I must be really lucky, because I have never had this problem with old 10BaseT hardware not connecting to a gigabit switch. Backwards support for 10BaseT was only recently dropped from 10GBaseT (10 gigabit) hardware!
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-07-21 07:37:22
Yup, a 100% standards-compliant autoneg switch talking to a 100% compliant non-autoneg 10BaseT card will Do The Right Thing, at least in theory.  There seem to be a couple of chipsets used on cards for macs that...  implement the standard slightly skewiff, or something.  I only have one machine that does this and it's not an Apple, so 🙂 .
Posted by: mraroid on 2020-07-22 05:23:10
When I was trying to get my CC on line, I plugged my CC network card into my router.  I got a solid green light. This was before I configured anything other then tell TCP/IP that I was using ethernet.   This means that the network card in my CC and my modern router could see each other.  I am using a router made by Linksys.  It is model number WRT 1900ACS.  It has 4 external WiFi antennas, 5 ethernet  ports, 1 USB 2.0 port and one USB 3.0 port. I did worry that if I updated the BIOS in the router, it may not be able to see the network card in my CC.  But that has never happened.  

I am using the Farallon brand of network card.  When I asked on this forum which network card folks suggested, this one was the clear winner.   I think I paid around $20 to $25 for it, plus a driver disk.  It was suppose to be NOS.  It did look new to me and included a real floppy made by Farallon, not a copy of a Farallon disc made by a person.

I thought that networking would probably be easier for me if I moved to a more modern OS.  So I upgraded to 7.6.1.   I know that many folks can network a CC using older versions of OS 7.0 something. 

Keep us updated.

mraroid
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