Anybody know where I can get a manual for the E-Machines Etherdock? Radius has taken down all of the archive stuff they used to have online. Actually, there's not much need for one since it is identical to Apple's! I mean I'd always heard that, but they didn't change a thing. In fact, when I removed the label, underneath it was the indentation for the Apple logo (which I will be adding now). There's even an Ethernet sticker covering the modem icon on the rear panel. It seems to use the Apple Ethernet drivers, so no need for a new driver. Come to think about it, I don't really need a manual for it, do I? I just can't figure out why they didn't add an internal modem pass through port. Did they figure that people using it who needed Ethernet had access to dialup services through Ethernet and therefore didn't need their modem? I had an Ethernet connection in 1995 to my company's LAN and still needed my modem to fax. Hell, I needed my modem to get on the internet in those days and other dialup services like LEXUS/NEXUS. It would have been so easy too as there is plenty of room inside the dock to add a pass through port (E-Machines had a custom designed logic board, I'd always assumed it to be Apple's board with an Ethernet expansion card taking the place of the Apple pass through expansion card -- but apparently that was Apple's design to accommodate the 9-pin Euro port -- so they could have added it easily to the logic board design). E-machines post-cut enlarged the RJ-11 opening to accommodate the RJ-45 connector, rather than changing the mold, so they could have easily cut a new hole for the pass through under the Kennsington lock port or on either end of the dock. And what about that Kennsington lock port!?! There's wasted space for ya! I guess it was only good for protecting your couple hundred $$ dock even though someone could walk away with your several thousand $$$ laptop. Not to bright. At least the floppy adapter kept the computer from being ejected when the security cable was in place. ---------- 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> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Now $199.99 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Reader Specials: 2.5GB Seagate SCSI: $119, 4GB IBM SCSI: $199, Norton Util. 4.0: $29, Mac Parts, Systems & Repairs <http://www.macresq.com>
