Huxley
Well-known member
Howdy gang,
So I recently picked up a lovely little SE/30 from our very own khannonnd - he supplied the Mac, I supplied a keyboard and mouse. It boots nicely from the original internal HDD (no frozen-spindle syndrome here, thankfully) and appears functional overall. Other than just being very fond of SE/30's in general, this one is of special interest since it features an Asante Ethernet board - something I've been looking to acquire for years without much luck.
This Mac currently boots to a lightly-customized System 7.5 (plain 7.5 that is, not 7.5.x), and has a few applications that could theoretically use Ethernet for connectivity: Netscape Navigator 2.x, NCSA Telnet 2.6, Fetch FTP, etc.... but in no case have I been able to get any communication in or out of the machine. I've been playing with it on my desk at work connected to our corporate LAN (and I've also tried running it into my modern desktop Mac with AirPort-to-Ethernet sharing enabled) but I just keep going in circles, and I can't tell at this point if I'm missing some essential driver, or if I have MacTCP mis-configured, or if there's a hardware failure at play here.
So, here's my "let's start from scratch and think this through logically" question: I'm not seeing any files anywhere on the drive that seem directly related to the Ethernet board - nothing labeled Asante in the System Folder, etc. Given this, is it even realistic to expect that System 7.5 could pick up an IP address even if all the Control Panels are configured properly?
Thanks for any hints in the right direction - I haven't paid khannonnd for this Mac yet, and I'd love to know if the Ethernet setup actually works before we figure out a mutually-agreeable price!
So I recently picked up a lovely little SE/30 from our very own khannonnd - he supplied the Mac, I supplied a keyboard and mouse. It boots nicely from the original internal HDD (no frozen-spindle syndrome here, thankfully) and appears functional overall. Other than just being very fond of SE/30's in general, this one is of special interest since it features an Asante Ethernet board - something I've been looking to acquire for years without much luck.
This Mac currently boots to a lightly-customized System 7.5 (plain 7.5 that is, not 7.5.x), and has a few applications that could theoretically use Ethernet for connectivity: Netscape Navigator 2.x, NCSA Telnet 2.6, Fetch FTP, etc.... but in no case have I been able to get any communication in or out of the machine. I've been playing with it on my desk at work connected to our corporate LAN (and I've also tried running it into my modern desktop Mac with AirPort-to-Ethernet sharing enabled) but I just keep going in circles, and I can't tell at this point if I'm missing some essential driver, or if I have MacTCP mis-configured, or if there's a hardware failure at play here.
So, here's my "let's start from scratch and think this through logically" question: I'm not seeing any files anywhere on the drive that seem directly related to the Ethernet board - nothing labeled Asante in the System Folder, etc. Given this, is it even realistic to expect that System 7.5 could pick up an IP address even if all the Control Panels are configured properly?
Thanks for any hints in the right direction - I haven't paid khannonnd for this Mac yet, and I'd love to know if the Ethernet setup actually works before we figure out a mutually-agreeable price!