At the risk of duplicating the post that I'm quoting from... on 17/10/01 16:00, George Guerrette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Basically, if you have any Mac made within the last five years (give or > take), you should already have a 10/100 based card. They have been stock on > all maces for quite a while. If it's an older Mac, possessing nubus slots, > for example, chances are you can't use the card. Nubus expandability is an > archaic format, used on the first generation PPCs and older. You may be able > to dig up a Nubus based 10/100 Ethernet card, somewhere. If you have a Nubus PPC you *have* ethernet (all Nubus expandable PPCs had ethernet... the <--> port). The AAUI transceivers are dirt cheap and *much* easier to find than a Nubus card. I've also heard of cases where people received AAUI transceivers with their cable-modem hookup (though, not from Rogers/Shaw). BTW All high-end Macs from the Quadra 700 (1991) on (Centris 650/660AV/Quadra 650/660AV, Q900/950/800/840AV) had AAUI ethernet built-in and even the Quadra 610 (& all 68040 LCs) had a comm slot which could take an ethernet card (or modem). >> quadras. i have recently aquired a (super fasssst) ppc 7500. i use that and >> my 6100/66 av mostly. > > believe they're called). I think you can get these adaptors for about $50m > bucks or so, but I don't know how the software sees them, or how recent a > Mac OS they can be used by. They're (transceivers) to be had for 10-20 here in downtown TO in used computer stores (try CPUsed @ Bathurst & Dupont (I live 5 mins away :) :) :)... <http://www.cpused.com> or a used computer/electronics parts store on N side of Bloor, 50 m W Bathurst (@ Bathurst subway stn)). They are transparent to all software -- the OS just sees an ethernet port and goes from there (I had my Quadra 700 on Rogers for a few months before I moved to an iMac). >From memory... all early consumer PPCs did not have ethernet but you could add it through an expansion card in the "modem slot" (e.g. PPC 5200/75, 6200/75, etc). The higher end PPCs *all* came with ethernet: 6100/7100/8100 (AAUI only), 7500/7600/7300, 8500/8600, 9500/9600 (both AAUI-15 + 10BT but only one active), PPC 6400 (10BT). None of the pre-G3 Powerbooks had built-in ethernet and only the 5xx PB series had AAUI-15. (check <http://www.apple-history.com/>). L8r, Eric. -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
