powerbook duo 2300c

[bamdad]

don't worry, i won't after have seen what's inside that bastard. maybe only if it's my last chance.

still waiting for that dock.. but if it needs third-party software to work then maybe i'll try to trade the whole powerbook for another - my old dream - a 68k one. preferably a 68LC40 one.

 

[bamdad]

hi all,

i recently bought a 5300c with a farallon en card. now the card does everything but work, despite that it has its own working driver install floppy. under 7.5.3 it is shown in the TCP/IP control panel, but on activating it, it just freezes. under 7.6.1 it doesn't even show up although it's on the desktop.

i even downloaded a newer verion of the driver, installed it, but alas, no effect.

so if anybody else has had this problem, please help me out. if there will be no solution, i'll try to trade it in for a pb serial cable to connect the two 'books and finally get some software installed on the duo via the 5300's floppy drive.

thanks and all the best,

bamdad

 

[Anonymous Freak]

One problem I have run into with 5300s is that if you use an older PCMCIA card, it might only have 68k 'Classic Networking' drivers that don't work with on PowerPC; and no PowerPC/OT drivers. (I ran into that issue with WaveLAN, until I found the PPC OpenTransport drivers.)

 

[bamdad]

thanks, but these are all fat binaries.

 

[Mac128]

it seems whai i really need is a newer technologies microdock. hope it does not require software to be installed.

I loved the Duo series. It may look scary to disassemble but it's actually quite easy. Nevertheless, docks are an easy way to go.

As for all the Etherdocks, yes you do need drivers. I haven't looked in a while but the Ethernet Micodock was one of the most prized of all the docks and it was quite expensive and extremely rare. If you do find one, I have a driver for you.

In the interim, you should definitely get a SCSI microdock, which has an HDI-30 SCSI connector and an ADB connector (like all microdocks).

You will also need either a switchable SCSI adapter or a special 30 pin HDI-SCSI to DB-25 SCSI cable and a DB-25 female-to-female coupler as well as a DB-25 to HDI-30 (29-pin) SCSI peripheral cable. I have never put two powerbooks together where one was in SCSI disk mode. It may not be possible if one of the PowerBooks does not supply termination Power and may require a powered terminator as well. Did they even make HDI-30 to HDI-29 pin cables? The whole process is MUCH simpler with a vintage desktop, then you need just the one cable. I brought my PowerBook 100 back to life through SCSI disk mode via my compact Classic. FYI, The very first PowerBook had SCSI disk mode, but not the early 100 series. Most others have it.

In any event you can install software this way but you have to exercise caution as you must tell your installers what kind of Mac to install for. Or use something like "Wish I Were" to fool the installers into thinking the 5300 is the 2300.

The HDI-20 external floppy & microdock is a nice thing to have, but nowhere near as fast as SCSI disk mode.

The 2300 is a fantastic machine. Given its size and power I would definitely try to get it going again. Like anything worth having it takes a little bit of effort to set it up, but once you do it really pays back. I used my 2300 from 1996 to 2000 when I upgraded to a PowerBook G3 Firewire and continued to use it until about 2003 on a regular basis. In my opinion it is the best looking of all the 90s PowerBooks.

 

[Bunsen]

you must tell your installers what kind of Mac to install for. Or use something like "Wish I Were" to fool the installers into thinking the 5300 is the 2300.

Or at least with the system software, you can tell it to install a system for any Mac, IIRC

 

[bamdad]

scsi microdock.. got it. hope there will be some on ebay. hope somebody will be willing to ship it to this godforsaken country.

 

[Bunsen]

Try dlchief58 on ebay US. He's got a 16sce dock at the moment, which has SCSI, Ethernet and video out.

 

[bamdad]

hi,

if this (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150233238786) is what you're referring to, i gave it a look, but there's no utp connector. maybe i'm missing something.. or weren't there any utp connectors back then?

 

[LCGuy]

This one's got it.

 

[Bunsen]

No, that's a 16sc. He did have a 16sce last time I looked. Maybe if you ask him he'll have another.

 

[LCGuy]

He's still got it - I linked to the auction in my previous post.

 

[Bunsen]

D'oh

 

[bamdad]

rats. item has ended. well, i'll try to PM him if he has another one. thanks.

 

[Bunsen]

If it ended without sale, he'll relist it. It's always worth doing another keyword search.

 

[bamdad]

i've tried '16sce dock', but so far nothing. waiting for a response to my PM..

 

[Bunsen]

try ethernet duo dock

 

[bamdad]

not a word in reply and ebay search reveals 0 items for 'ethernet duo dock'.. guess i'll just have to wait and keep trying. thanks anyway, now i think there is hope.

 

[macintoshme]

I personally recommend buying yourself an external CD ROM , get any minidock with scsi, that way, you can burn stuff to CD and transfer it that way to get started.

 

[Bunsen]

Try minidock instead of dock