>I am looking for an Ethernet PC Card for a PowerBook 1400c. I am running >System 8.6 and believe I need a driver as well? Does such a solution still >exist? If so do you know of a source?
You can find the Global Village combo (modem and ethernet) cards on ebay; those work. The GV extensions conflict with a couple other 3rd party PC Card extensions though. Or a Farallon Mac PCMCIA ethernet adapter can be found on ebay. These are often a little pricey though. You can also get 3Com 589 series cards for very cheap ($10-14 usually) from places like www.computer-show.com or www.compuvest.com, or ebay. You should be able to use anything that says 3C589 in the part number, Xjack or dongled or whatever. Just NO "combo" 3com cards, or cardbus or 10/100. Stick to 10bT. The 3C589 card is the same chipset as the Farallon Mac-specific cards; Cameron has a web page up that has a patched driver and some support information. <http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/enet3c589/> I've put the patched driver on 5 laptops with never losing my system folder; if you get the flashing Q (I expect not, but just in case) follow his instructions and you should be fine. Don't format the drive or reinstall or anything, all your stuff should still be there, the system folder just got unblessed somehow- boot from a floppy or CD or something and re-bless it. The GV extension crashes at boot if the Farallon extensions (original or patched) are installed ( I have both types of ethernet cards). If you search this list archive for "3C589" a bunch of past posts come up about this. Hope the web sites are still useful, their stock changes, last I looked the Compuvest place had the better selection. Beware of cheap prices on ebay with HUGE shipping fees, kinda ruin the point of a cheap card. Brian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
