It seems I've hit on a lead. A fragile lead, but a lead, none-the- less. Previously, my network was running with manually-configured IP addresses between my Powermac G3 and generic Windows 7 box to share its internet connection (Wi-Fi) and play the occasional cross-platform LAN game (Unreal Tournament), using a generic 10/100 switch and cat5e cables on the hardware end. Switching both to DHCP, then restarting the mac with the standard "apple enet" driver enabled, brought the card back to life in Mac OS 9.2.1, indicating network activity on both the switch and Apple PCI card. As an experiment, I thought I'd leave the mac set to DHCP while retaining some control through manual settings on the PC. After restart, that took down the connection and I have yet to replicate my earlier solution. Again, thoughts or suggestions will be very appreciated.
On Jun 13, 11:08 am, James Chapel <dragnero...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently picked up a 10/100 Apple Fast Ethernet PCI card for my old > standby, a well-upgraded Beige G3, on eBay. While I've seen this card > working fine on this machine in Mac OS 8.1 using the "Apple 10/100 > Fast Ethernet" extension, for some reason it completely refuses to > work right in 9.2.1, even with said driver from 8.1 and even with the > "apple enet" extension disabled. In short, the built-in 10mbit > Ethernet seems to always be the active adapter and the PCI card seems > to always be disabled no matter what extension I use and no matter > what adapter I have the Appletalk and TCP/IP control panels set to. > Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
