Hi there,
I am not too experienced with the inner workings of Macos 8.1, I am trying to get my internet to come up faster.
System specs:
PB190cs w/ 40mb RAM
CF card HDD
MacOS 8.1
3com 589d ethernet using drivers from this page:
https://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/enet3c589/
problem description:
Upon turning the computer on the light on the ethernet card connector is green/on, but the router port light is off. So no connection. If I load an internet tcpip app like Ircle, it will start 'connecting', the ethernet card light will turn off, I leave it for a minute or two and eventually both the internet card and the router port light will turn green, it will get its dhcp ip and eventually connect to IRC.
Thoughts:
I am not sure if this is the way the OS is supposed to work. I have the latest MacTCP and Opentransport 1.3. For instance my NTP control panel to set the date has the option to update on system start up and 'wait for mactcp' but I think this takes so long it gives up and never sets my date unless I do it manually. Once the internet is on and going there aren't any problems.
Also is AppleTalk supposed to be turned on all the time? I'm not sure, but at the moment it is on.
Thanks for any advice on this!
I am not too experienced with the inner workings of Macos 8.1, I am trying to get my internet to come up faster.
System specs:
PB190cs w/ 40mb RAM
CF card HDD
MacOS 8.1
3com 589d ethernet using drivers from this page:
https://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/enet3c589/
problem description:
Upon turning the computer on the light on the ethernet card connector is green/on, but the router port light is off. So no connection. If I load an internet tcpip app like Ircle, it will start 'connecting', the ethernet card light will turn off, I leave it for a minute or two and eventually both the internet card and the router port light will turn green, it will get its dhcp ip and eventually connect to IRC.
Thoughts:
I am not sure if this is the way the OS is supposed to work. I have the latest MacTCP and Opentransport 1.3. For instance my NTP control panel to set the date has the option to update on system start up and 'wait for mactcp' but I think this takes so long it gives up and never sets my date unless I do it manually. Once the internet is on and going there aren't any problems.
Also is AppleTalk supposed to be turned on all the time? I'm not sure, but at the moment it is on.
Thanks for any advice on this!
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