Fellow listers, The other day I was rereading Ivan's account of OS X on his 2400. I was thinking about trying it, but decided against it.
Anyway I was intrigued by his problem of the 10/100 ethernet card issues and finding a cheap Compusa house card and using the chipset manufactures drivers and getting it to work using OS 8 because OS 9 hotswap not supported and as you know you can't boot with a cardbus card installed under OS 9. Well I wanted to use 100 base T on my 2400 and decided to buy a Compusa card and play around. Picked up a 10/100 cardbus at compusa(by the way they hide them so you don't know they have a cheap one, had to ask for it.) Well I took it home and suprise the Mac drivers are included but not mentioned on the box. Anyway to the good part. I found after much experimenting. I found that use the Realtek drivers( download available at the Realtek website, RTL8139 driver for Mac OS 9 install it and not the Compusa one, start the computer in OS 9, then restart( not shut down and powerup) and insert the 10/100 card after the bong the 2400 will bootup. Select TCP/IP and choose "Ethernet slot RTL8139", suprise you have 10/100 ethernet under OS 9. Okay here is the tricky part when are done, you must unselect the TCP/IP RTL8139 to disable card before you eject it. then shut down. Also everytime you want to use the card boot up first restart and insert as described above, then reslect driver. I don't know why it works but it does everytime. I know it is kloogy(sp) and a lot of work but if you don't already have a 100 baseT ethernet card and want one that works on the cheap (19.99) there you go. Of course you must have a cardbus enabled 2400 Brian ===== Brian Personal Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com> Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
