Best Ethernet expansion card for SE/30?

[Boctor]

Hello, I have recently and successfully recapped my SE/30, and I'm interested in connecting it to my network to transfer files to it via FTP. However, I am relatively new to expansion cards for Compact Macs. What are some decent/common standard (RJ45) ethernet cards compatible with the SE/30? I'm looking to order one from Ebay some time and I'm rather curious what to look for.

Thank you for reading, and your time is appreciated.

Attached is one photograph of the fixed SE/30 (In an SE SuperDrive case, as the original case was very damaged, and some parts didn't work at all!) The diagonal lines are just scanlines from the camera against the CRT, but I'm sure you guessed that.

 

[3583Bytes]

Just get a FloppyEmu.  Network cards are rare and expensive for these things.

 

[ScutBoy]

The best ethernet card for an SE/30 at this point, is the one you can find and afford...

 

[Charlieman]

E-Machines made a combo Ethernet and graphics card for the SE/30. Driver support for the ColorLink family was limited (nothing after System 7.5.x) and probably no Open Transport. Other manufacturers may have made them too (RasterOps?)

Any Ethernet card will be fast enough, owing to the limited SCSI performance on the SE/30.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

For general flexibility, any NIC with PDS passthru that's compatible with the faster clock of the IIsi would be my overall suggestion. Not all SE/30 NICs have a passthru. Not all are compatible with the IIsi, but I've not heard of a IIsi NIC that won't work going the other direction, it wouldn't have made any sense at all for a mfr. to have offered one with that limitation as a product back in the day.

The best NIC I've seen for the ultimate in flexibility is Asante's MacCon/IIsi/SE/30. The PDS equipped Compacts and IIsi all required a two part card with PDS section and a backplane breakout board/cover plate connected by an umbilical when an I/O connector was required, normally a ribbon cable and connected to a daughtercard in the case of a NIC.

The Asante MacCon has provision for RJ45/10bT and Co-Ax/ThinNet connectors and transceiver conversion circuitry on what I'd call a granddaughter card that appears to be the main section of the I/O card. The caged DA-15/ThickNet connector on a very simple, detachable passthru card for the PDS card's standard output.

Removing the ThickNet section between NIC and granddaughter card frees up the backplane panel's D-Sub cutout for the (un-caged) DA-19 of a Radius Color Pivot II/IIsi should pick one up (available brand new and very inexpensive) for your SE/30. It can be installed in the PDS card's passthru connector per uniserver's impressive hack (literally and figuratively, very [8D] ) and the VidCard's DA-15 output connector can be easily installed in the MacCon's backplane coverplate cutout.

 

[snuci]

Ethernet Cards can be found but you have to look and a little luck is required.  For the SE/30, the MacCon ethernet card is shared with the Mac IIsi model as Trash80 stated above.  Be on the look out for an SE/30 or IIsi with a network card in it.  I just picked up this little gem myself and got a IIsi in the deal http://www.ebay.ca/itm/251961542155

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

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