Faulty Comm Slot II Ethernet Card in a TAM?

[Busterswt]

Hello all,

I've finally gotten around to setting up my TAM after a long period in the box. I picked up an Apple Comm Slot II ethernet board about two years ago and stored it away. I've installed it in the TAM, and noticed briefly the green link light, but cannot for the life of me remember which combination of cabling caused it to light up. 

Am I wrong, or is this a 10Mbit card? Does it support full duplex? Or better yet, auto?

Besides the TCP/IP control panel (and the extension(s), is there any other trick to getting this thing working?

 

[Busterswt]

Well, not sure what to say here other than installing 8.6 seemed to help things considerably. Currently using a switch capable of 10Mbit and another Mac with Internet Sharing enabled, as I could not get DHCP to work. Regardless, things are in a good place now, and AppleShare via home NAS works great for getting files to the TAM versus trying to hit the web.

 

[cheesestraws]

Sorry.  Meant to answer this.  My CS II card on my TAM works at 10/full with autonegotiation, but that's under 9.

 

[Busterswt]

Sorry.  Meant to answer this.  My CS II card on my TAM works at 10/full with autonegotiation, but that's under 9.

Appreciate the update. I'd rather do away with the Mac-in-the-middle, but I'm also trying to use some powerline-ethernet adapters that may be giving me grief. 

 

[cheesestraws]

I'll fire it up once I get off this call and check what my switch says.

 

[cheesestraws]

I misremembered; mine failed to autonegotiate (!) and came up at 10/half.

* X450e-48p.5 # show ports 9 information detail 
Port:	9
	Virtual-router:	VR-Default
	Type:		UTP
	Random Early drop:	Unsupported
	Admin state:	Enabled with  auto-speed sensing  auto-duplex
	Link State:	Active, 10Mbps, half-duplex
	Link Counter: Up 	1 time(s)

I like the way that Apple System Profiler has fields for "speed" and "duplex" that resolutely stay at N/A no matter what I do here...

 

[Franklinstein]

Most CS II cards are 10-base, including all of the Apple-branded ones. Some were twisted-pair, some used AAUI. You could supposedly find faster ones (from Farallon I believe) but they're uncommon. Anyway they work with the Ethernet CS II extension. Ethernet was still a little finicky back in the mid-90s so auto-negotiate may not play nice, especially on modern networking equipment, which is one reason older network devices had switches to manually configure ports.