Jason Greshes wrote:
I'm having the same problem. I picked up a 575 off craigslist yesterday. I
had an extra LC etherboard I put in the machine...
Okay, my problem solved--yours might be the same. It was an autosensing
problem. Modern hubs/switches are supposed to be compatible with 10 and 100
speed ethernet ports, and are supposed to automatically adjust to whichever one
is plugged in. A lot of old Macs, though, have a problem that the aren't
compatible with these autosensing hubs, with the result being no ethernet
connection.
Luckily I had a pile of old mac parts (anyone in the Philadelphia area need
half a dozen 40-230 MB SCSI drives? Or several hundred 1MB 30 pin RAM clips)
including an old g-Port workgroup hub (it is sold old that it has a BNC port).
Plugged the 575 into that and everything is fine--575's drive is even mounted
on my iMac's desktop as we speak.
One of the options in tcp/ip control panel is set to only load the tcp
stack when needed, I've found this always to be set this way by default
after a fresh install. You can change this setting by clicking the
options button on the bottom right of the CP.
Autosensing is mainly a problem with older Asante cards and you are spot
on by using a T10 hub to get around the problem.
I dont have the hardware to test whether a static address can be used
successfully to by-pass the hub
cheers
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