Hi fellow retro mac enthusiasts
Do you know if it is common (??) for a Asante MacCon to break/cease to function?
I bought such a card from Italy quite some time ago, but have never been able to get it to work properly (on 6.0.8, 7.0.1, 7.1 and now 7.5.3 inside an SE/30).
I think i have tried everything actually. Putting a 10base-t hub in between it and my router (a Hirshmann mini-wg 6tp, a Netgear EN 104tp and a Raspberry PI model 2b (wich eth0 set to 10mbp/s half duplex acting as a wifi-hotspot from the ethernet side). It doesn't connect. I have tested MacIp 2.0.1, Opentransport 1.1.2 (i think it was) and the Asante diagnostics. It passes the memory test but fails on the next test.
I even bought an external scsi/rj45 unit and that one works fine, but i would love to see the internal Nic work as well.
The PDS connectors looks fine, i do get a link-led light when connecting the network cable.
When i check the properties in MacIp /opentransport, i can't see the hardware address of the MacCon-card (but when running the Asante util, it does see a MAC-address).
Could it be some bad solder joint? Something else?
Do you know if it is common (??) for a Asante MacCon to break/cease to function?
I bought such a card from Italy quite some time ago, but have never been able to get it to work properly (on 6.0.8, 7.0.1, 7.1 and now 7.5.3 inside an SE/30).
I think i have tried everything actually. Putting a 10base-t hub in between it and my router (a Hirshmann mini-wg 6tp, a Netgear EN 104tp and a Raspberry PI model 2b (wich eth0 set to 10mbp/s half duplex acting as a wifi-hotspot from the ethernet side). It doesn't connect. I have tested MacIp 2.0.1, Opentransport 1.1.2 (i think it was) and the Asante diagnostics. It passes the memory test but fails on the next test.
I even bought an external scsi/rj45 unit and that one works fine, but i would love to see the internal Nic work as well.
The PDS connectors looks fine, i do get a link-led light when connecting the network cable.
When i check the properties in MacIp /opentransport, i can't see the hardware address of the MacCon-card (but when running the Asante util, it does see a MAC-address).
Could it be some bad solder joint? Something else?
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