DaynaPORT LC II Ethernet Card Driver install issues

[68kJules]

Hello,

I have an LCII that I recently re-capped and acquired a DaynaPORT LC II ethernet card for.

I installed the card and it successfully passes the diagnostics on the driver disk. I found the driver in this forum post: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23832-driver-for-daynaport-e30/

My problem is that I can't install the driver. The LC II is on OS 7.1. Making the driver disk was a complicated process involving Basilisk II, a dummy 1.4 MB floppy image created with dd on my OSX mac, and then written to a USB floppy drive via dd. Basically this process, but using Basilisk instead of minivmac (http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8208)

I can run the diagnostics and copy files from the floppy onto the LC II hard drive with no problems.

When I try to install the driver, I make it through the disable extensions and license agreement stuff, it appears to start installing then fails with:

This is not the correct “DaynaPORT Installer" disk. Make sure you are using the original installer disk and try again.
When I created the floppy I named it "DaynaPORT Installer". If I copy the installer to the hard drive and try to install from there, it prompts me to insert the floppy then fails with the same error.

I have access to a Motorola Starmax running OS 8 (or 9 - don't recall) if that would help in creating an installer floppy that would work, I just haven't pulled it out of storage to test.

Can anybody shed some light on the best way forward? I like to network all of my vintage collection for ease in transferring software to/from them.

Thank you!

 

 

[Macdrone]

Try using disk copy to duplicate the image rather than copy the files to the disk.  Some games have made me do that in the past.

 

[uniserver]

That is not the driver for that nic

7.5.5 + OT 1.3. Should automatically have the ability to run that nic natively w/o driver.

 

[68kJules]

Thanks for the replies.

I'm comfortable in OSX and the unix command line, but kind of clueless when it comes to older mac OS.

Can I upgrade directly to 7.5.5 from 7.1 without bouncing through any other version?

uniserver, your macccaps.com site was a HUGE help in re-capping the LC II. Many thanks for documenting that information!

(btw, The LC II has 10 10µf - 16V - SMT, not 9 as shown in your parts list here http://maccaps.com/MacCaps/Capacitor_Reference/Entries/1992/3/23_Macintosh_LC_II.html)

 

[uniserver]

awesome !

well you can install 7.5.3, then update that to 7.5.5, then install Open transport 1.3

you can get all that here http://asa.max1zzz.co.uk/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/

also you will find if you get your self a Floppy Emu, man will it ever make your life easier!

http://www.bigmessowires.com/macintosh-floppy-emu/

 

[68kJules]

I'm too cheap/lazy to get a floppy emu at the moment...

I was able to get 7.5.5 installed by pulling the drive from the LCII, installing it in the Starmax SCSI port and copying all necessary files over.

Thanks to your help I've got open transport working and can ping machines on my network.

Next step is figuring out file sharing - I already have netatalk running on my Linux server for time machine and other file shares for the 2 osx machines in the house. Will have to do some more reading to understand how to make it work with an older mac os.

I'm having fun and learning a lot. Thx again!