On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:01:45 PDT, Gorka L. Martinez Mezo wrote:
> A month ago I bought a Performa 6200 motherboard and a Asante > Ethernet card > (after knowing about it here). > > I haven`t been able to run the motherboard (seems to be damaged) > after a lot > of trying, so not until today I had the opportunity to use it on my > original > motherboard. > > I punched the card in the PDS slot and I got a green light as soon > as I > plugged a RJ-45 Ethernet cable. I dusted out my former router (a > Conceptronic C-54APRA bought some four years ago) for a quick try, > but I > haven`t been able to get the router acknowledge there`s a card > connect to > it. I tried to plug the cable in the four Ethernet slots available > on the > router to no avail. I them plugged my dad`s computer and got an > instant > green on the router. > > The card seems to be working. Any ideas about what can I do? I`m > running Mac > OS 8.0 Spanish edition. ------------ A known "feature" of Asante cards is that they don't work well (or at all) with "autosensing" routers/switches. That is to say, if the router says 10/100 on it, the Asante card probably won't work. The way I work around the problem is to stick a "dumb" 10baseT hub between the switch/router and the Asante device. Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
