Help with Mac Plus networking??

[WakelessFoil]

I have been trying for months to get my rare Asante EN/SC to work with my Macintosh plus to no avail. I have the adapter hooked up to a 10BaseT hub and I can even receive packets in the troubleshooter. But when I bring up Macweb it acts as though there is no connection; error 500.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Justin

 

[olePigeon]

Should be in the Compact Mac forum, this is the Conquests forum.

In any event, if you are using MacTCP, then you have to manually put in the IP address, subnet, gateway, domain, etc.  MacTCP will not work with DHCP on modern equipment.

 

[cheesestraws]

If you're getting things through on the troubleshooter that does suggest layer2 is working.  Things to check:

• HTTP Error 500 is "internal server error", which suggests that the server is getting your request, looking at it and going "wut?".  This could perhaps be SSL?  Before doing anything else try going to neverssl.com and seeing if that works.
   
  
• Is AppleTalk working?  If you have another old Mac, just use AppleShare to try it out.  If you don't, fire up wireshark or something on a modern Mac or PC, open the Chooser on the Plus, select AppleShare and watch to see whether any AppleTalk broadcasts turn up.
   
  
• Is MacTCP set up properly? 
  
  
  First, check that it's set to Ethernet, not EtherTalk (this is confusing). 
  
• As @olePigeon noted, MacTCP does not do DHCP.  Your options here are to turn on BOOTP in your router if it supports it (though be careful with this, BOOTP leases do not expire, generally) or to set a static IP address/router address in the MacTCP control panel.
  
• You should also do all the normal end-to-end IP testing, with the caveat that MacTCP doesn't actually start responding until something starts using it.  Personally, I run MacTCP Watcher basically all the time, which shows me my IP address and so forth (and a bunch of other useful information).  Check you can ping the IP address from another machine on the network!
  

Hopefully this helps.