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Farallon PCI 10/100 card questions
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-10 09:13:56 So my 4400/200 came with the comm-II ethernet 10BaseT card and a Farallon PCI card in one of the slots. Maybe I'm dim, but I couldn't find its p/n in a list of drivers for Mac OS. Heck, I don't even know if I was looking up the right identifier as the p/n. I searched the numbers I thought might be p/ns and all that really came up were windows drivers: 8960155-00-01 Is this actually a Mac OS supported card? ( I mean, were drivers written for it—the OS 9.1 drivers do not recognize it, just says there is no ethernet) Thanks
Posted by: slomacuser on 2019-04-10 12:45:43 Maybe this will work, will upload tomorrow
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-10 12:46:53 Schweet. Thank you, sir.
Posted by: slomacuser on 2019-04-11 09:54:13 Here it is View attachment Install FastEtherTX-10_10….sit
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-11 09:58:41 You're a saint! I'll try that out this evening.
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-11 20:12:34 Here it is View attachment 27279 Worked like a charm! Thanks again.
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-17 18:57:50 So under OS 9.1 I had no problems. DHCP automatically fetched all the settings to connect to my switch, but now Under 7.6.1 I got nothing. The card appears to be functioning and the utilities that were on the disk show it as such. It's been too long... do I need to manually set up everything to connect to my LAN? Darn this era of PnP everything... made my brain soft.
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2019-04-17 19:15:38 DHCP automatically fetched all the settings to connect to my switch, but now Under 7.6.1 I got nothing. The card appears to be functioning and the utilities that were on the disk show it as such. It's been too long... do I need to manually set up everything to connect to my LAN? Darn this era of PnP everything... made my brain soft. DHCP hasn't always existed. Before it there was BOOTP.
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-17 19:20:52 DHCP hasn't always existed. The option for DHCP is there in the TCP/IP control panel, just < automatically supplied > nothing on everything :/
Posted by: Cory5412 on 2019-04-17 19:30:44 Not that this is super easy if TCP/IP isn't working, but are you using OpenTransport and have you updated it?
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-17 20:11:11 Not that this is super easy if TCP/IP isn't working, but are you using OpenTransport and have you updated it? I'm using the version that installed with 7.6.1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ do I need to update that version then? I have a vague memory of you telling me this already :lol:
Posted by: Cory5412 on 2019-04-17 20:12:44 It's better if you do, it should connect on its own, but the updated files (version numbers and files are on system7today.com) work better and allow connections to newer appleshare servers (also get the appleshare upgrade as well.)
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-17 20:24:15 I'll look into that. Thanks
Posted by: jessenator on 2019-04-19 22:27:05 So I got all the 7.6.1 recommended updates installed on the 4400/200 (now G3 400). And I'm at the same place with my DHCP settings :/ Tried a manually setup, but I think Google 's router doesn't like that... Well, I guess I could go back to the stock 10BT comm slot card (my gigabit service is ending soon anyway and I'll only have 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up). Or I could put the 9.1 CF card back in and run it that way...
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