NoTrueSpaceman
Active member
In the on-going saga of my IIsi refurb, I picked up a new-in-box, still-in-shrink-wrap Asante MacCon MCiNB-10T. It's plugged into the IIsi's Nubus adapter card.
No matter what I do, I can't get the link light on the switch to light up. I've tried every switch, new and old. I've tried going directly into other machines where I've set the physical format to 10baseT. Nothing.
As for the card, it's green light blinks all the time. It's yellow light will very rarely occasionally blink.
I feel like I've got all the software ends chased down. I'm running System 7.5.3 and using the combined Asante drivers that correctly auto-detect the FPU adapter card and that the network card is a Nubus card.
The Asante ADLS tool shows "sent" packets ticking up when you think they would (when trying to open pages in Netscape, trying to FTP with Fetch, when using MacPing...). The "received" packet count never budges.
I'm wondering:
1. is there some sort of driver I'm missing that maybe somehow switches from the AUI port to the 10baseT/UTP port?
2. I don't have the fancy bracket for my Nubus adapter card so... it's kinda all just hanging around in there. I'm going to 3D print some brackets to hold it stable, but does that bracket do something else? Some sort of really critical electrical grounding?
3. Is there anything else I can try? All I can think to do is go find a really ancient 10baseT hub or switch and hope that the whole thing is just a physical layer weirdness, but it's not even easy to find those at this point. (Normally I'd go thrifting or visiting the local recyclers but that's hard right now.)
The date on the box for this card is "08-03-1994". That seems late enough in the game that use with a IIsi wouldn't be unheard of.
No matter what I do, I can't get the link light on the switch to light up. I've tried every switch, new and old. I've tried going directly into other machines where I've set the physical format to 10baseT. Nothing.
As for the card, it's green light blinks all the time. It's yellow light will very rarely occasionally blink.
I feel like I've got all the software ends chased down. I'm running System 7.5.3 and using the combined Asante drivers that correctly auto-detect the FPU adapter card and that the network card is a Nubus card.
The Asante ADLS tool shows "sent" packets ticking up when you think they would (when trying to open pages in Netscape, trying to FTP with Fetch, when using MacPing...). The "received" packet count never budges.
I'm wondering:
1. is there some sort of driver I'm missing that maybe somehow switches from the AUI port to the 10baseT/UTP port?
2. I don't have the fancy bracket for my Nubus adapter card so... it's kinda all just hanging around in there. I'm going to 3D print some brackets to hold it stable, but does that bracket do something else? Some sort of really critical electrical grounding?
3. Is there anything else I can try? All I can think to do is go find a really ancient 10baseT hub or switch and hope that the whole thing is just a physical layer weirdness, but it's not even easy to find those at this point. (Normally I'd go thrifting or visiting the local recyclers but that's hard right now.)
The date on the box for this card is "08-03-1994". That seems late enough in the game that use with a IIsi wouldn't be unheard of.