VMSZealot
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So I got an Ethernet card for my Mac SE. A properly cheap Ethernet card - £20 all in - which looks to be in good condition. It's an Asante Maccon, which is the same family of card as I have in my SE/30. But why so cheap? Erm - because it's missing a key part. There's no daughterboard.
The daughterboard looks to be the same as the one that the SE/30 Asante Maccon uses - which, if I've understood correctly, makes sense. I think that the main card is an AUI board, and the daughterboard is just a twisted pair transceiver. A quick shufty at the chips on the board backs this up (but I'm open to any corrections that anyone wants to make!)
So here's my plan. I'm going to whip the daughterboard from the SE/30 and see if it works with the SE's Asante Maccon. If it does, then I'm going check the circuit to see whether the daughterboards AUI connector is just a pass through (I suspect it is - but I've never used it, natch, because I use the RJ45 socket). If it is a pass through then I'm going to make up a cable from the ribbon cable to a DB-15 connector and just use an external transceiver.
Does my plan seem sound? Does anyone see any objections - or have any advice?
The daughterboard looks to be the same as the one that the SE/30 Asante Maccon uses - which, if I've understood correctly, makes sense. I think that the main card is an AUI board, and the daughterboard is just a twisted pair transceiver. A quick shufty at the chips on the board backs this up (but I'm open to any corrections that anyone wants to make!)
So here's my plan. I'm going to whip the daughterboard from the SE/30 and see if it works with the SE's Asante Maccon. If it does, then I'm going check the circuit to see whether the daughterboards AUI connector is just a pass through (I suspect it is - but I've never used it, natch, because I use the RJ45 socket). If it is a pass through then I'm going to make up a cable from the ribbon cable to a DB-15 connector and just use an external transceiver.
Does my plan seem sound? Does anyone see any objections - or have any advice?