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Drivers for Crescendo G3 NuBus & Asante Net. Card?

Solvalou

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I got a bit of a dilemma for old hardware drivers atm for a couple of machines. Il start with the Sonnet G3 upgrade. I currently have it installed in my 6100/66 PowerMac, although I can find the product on the website (only difference is mine has a black heatsink rather then a purple one) I can't find any drivers for it, even though they have drivers for other G3 upgrades which are just as old pretty much. Oh and they are still selling these things! 8-o *sigh*

Anyway I guess I should talk about my Network Card. It's currently installed in one of the NuBus slots in my IIvx. It actually came with it but without any software and the HD had been formatted recently before being sold on so it is pretty much dead weight ATM. It's an Asanté one copyrighted 1994. I can't really tell you any other infomation on it since it's all that's really obvious on the card. I can't really tell if there it's a model name and/or number on it since theres digits all over the place. What I can say is it has a removable ceramic ROM type chip and has a 15 pin plus RJ45 ouputs.

Any ideas? Would pictures of them be any use?

 

ClassicHasClass

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Ping me and I'll put v3.1 up on the Gopher server after I've finished migrating the boxes today. That should cover all of the Sonnet accelerators compatible with OS 9, all the way from NuBus to Encore MDX, except the 7200 (I don't have that one).

 

Solvalou

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Ping me and I'll put v3.1 up on the Gopher server after I've finished migrating the boxes today. That should cover all of the Sonnet accelerators compatible with OS 9, all the way from NuBus to Encore MDX, except the 7200 (I don't have that one).
Forgive my stupidity but how do I go about doing that? I have never downloaded anything by this method before.

 

ClassicHasClass

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Gopher is understood by Classilla, Firefox 3.x, Camino, SeaMonkey 1.x/2.0 and OmniWeb natively, and by Firefox 4.x if you install OverbiteFF. Grab it from

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/9/archive/by-request/classic-mac/SonnetCrescendoEnablerV31.sit

 

Solvalou

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Il give it a go later on, all my retro Mac stuff is stored away for the time being but if you could hold onto it il let you know when it's all set up and ready. Is that ok with you?

 
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