Network on SE30

[surfer150]

Hello together,

I have an issue getting network on my SE30 with Mac OS 8.1. It has the Asanté MacCon SE30E network card in it with driver version 5.6.1 installed.

I connected it to my router using an AUI to RJ45 10BASE-T transceiver (Allied Telesyn AT-210TS). The link LED turns on but there’s no network. I’m not getting any DHCP. I also tried setting the IP manually in the TCP/IP control panel, but i still can’t ping the SE30.

After that i tried to connect it directly to my laptop. I manually assigned IPs from the same subnet on both ends (laptop and SE30) but i still can’t ping the SE30. The link negotiation seems to work, it shows a negotiated 10 MBit/s in the network adapter properties.

As I don’t know further has anybody an idea what’s going wrong here? Is the MacCon even compatible with MacOS 8.1?

 

[Fred1212]

Do you have any other early Macs that you can try to connect to via Appletalk? This would confirm everything hardware and software is correct. Why 8.1 on an SE/30 and not the 7.6.1 sweetspot?

 

[robin-fo]

Did you try loading any website or do pings from the SE/30? The TCP/IP stack often only gets loaded only when first needed.

 

[surfer150]

Did you try loading any website or do pings from the SE/30? The TCP/IP stack often only gets loaded only when first needed.

No I haven‘t yet. Will try this.

Do you have any other early Macs that you can try to connect to via Appletalk? This would confirm everything hardware and software is correct. Why 8.1 on an SE/30 and not the 7.6.1 sweetspot?

Because I like the new platinum UI design more and I had an original Mac OS 8 install CD laying around.

Does 7.6.1 perform a lot better?

I can try to connect the SE30 with my Kanga G3 if Robin‘s approach does not work.

 

[croissantking]

Does 7.6.1 perform a lot better?

Yes. You can install Mac OS 8’s Appearance Manager extension to get the platinum look under System 7.

 

[Phipli]

Even 7.6.1 is a bit new for a stock SE/30.

 

[croissantking]

Even 7.6.1 is a bit new for a stock SE/30.

Yes. There's really no reason to go higher than 7.5.5. Many are happiest on 7.1 whilst some even prefer 6.0.x.

 

[Phipli]

Yes. There's really no reason to go higher than 7.5.5. Many are happiest on 7.1 whilst some even prefer 6.0.x.

Yeah, personally I always like using 7.1 on an 030, and just adding back in what features I want from 7.5 and newer manually. I like how lightweight it is. You feel the difference on 16MHz, especially if you don't have loads of RAM.