Swabbie
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Bought a Realtek RTL8139D NIC card for my PCI slot on advice that that card will run on PB&J if you stick it in.
Installed it.
Got a green LED saying I’ve got power. System profiler sees the card.
Card name: pci3030 ,5032.
Card model and rom: not available.
Card revision: 16.
Card vendor: 10DEC.
Found and installed the Driver https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/re...clrtl8101lrtl8139cl-rtl8139clrtl8139dlrtl8100
I want to point out here that the readme on the driver gives me concern. It says to confirm the card vendor and name match the following: 10 DEC and 8139. My vendor ID is DEC10 but my 4 digit card name was not “8139”. It says if they don’t match then find a driver where they do OR PATCH THE DRIVER. Then it gives into this long (scary) process to do that.
Wondering if this is a truly relevant or not.
you can read the whole thing here https://pastebin.com/n5iiUNme
Connected my NIC card to LAN jack on my FiOS router via standard Ethernet cable.
Launched TCP/IP from the control panel.
I get this alert: “The previously selected connection “Ethernet” is not available. The connection has been changed to “AppleTalk (MacIP)”
That sounds bad.
My choices are connect via apple talk or PPP. As it warned, no Ethernet option!
Fired up classilla just to be sure. Yep. No connectivity. No activity lights in NIC card.
Running OS 9.1
I will also say ever since installing this card & driver the system has been acting up. Lots of crashes. Slow. EXAMPLE: Unstuffing a 79MB .SIT took 2 hours! Etc.
Now h’what.
Installed it.
Got a green LED saying I’ve got power. System profiler sees the card.
Card name: pci3030 ,5032.
Card model and rom: not available.
Card revision: 16.
Card vendor: 10DEC.
Found and installed the Driver https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/re...clrtl8101lrtl8139cl-rtl8139clrtl8139dlrtl8100
I want to point out here that the readme on the driver gives me concern. It says to confirm the card vendor and name match the following: 10 DEC and 8139. My vendor ID is DEC10 but my 4 digit card name was not “8139”. It says if they don’t match then find a driver where they do OR PATCH THE DRIVER. Then it gives into this long (scary) process to do that.
Wondering if this is a truly relevant or not.
you can read the whole thing here https://pastebin.com/n5iiUNme
Connected my NIC card to LAN jack on my FiOS router via standard Ethernet cable.
Launched TCP/IP from the control panel.
I get this alert: “The previously selected connection “Ethernet” is not available. The connection has been changed to “AppleTalk (MacIP)”
That sounds bad.
My choices are connect via apple talk or PPP. As it warned, no Ethernet option!
Fired up classilla just to be sure. Yep. No connectivity. No activity lights in NIC card.
Running OS 9.1
I will also say ever since installing this card & driver the system has been acting up. Lots of crashes. Slow. EXAMPLE: Unstuffing a 79MB .SIT took 2 hours! Etc.
Now h’what.
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