JohnWorkman
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Greetings,
This is my first post on this excellent forum. The content here was extremely helpful for me to recap my SE/30.
"Mac Con for IISi SE/30. P/N 09-00005-00 REV. C2"
Background
I acquired an SE/30 with an Asante MacCon card installed on eBay a few months ago. I recapped the motherboard, power supply, and analog board as well as gave it a deep cleaning. I also removed the hard drive and floppy drive and connected the SCSI on it to the excellent RaSCSI board. All is up and working perfectly now except the network card.
The first thing I noticed is that the fuse on the daughterboard was blown; likely someone in the distant past tried to plug a Mac Monitor into the DB15 AUI port and this shorted AUI pin 13 (+12V) to ground. I replaced the fuse and got my AUI transciever to power on.
Symptoms
Card doesn't seem to work. Asante Troubleshooter told me "NIC Transmission Failed" no matter what I did.
Frustrated, I moved the slot-select jumpers on the card to off for both JP1 and JP2 which selects slot B. After doing this, the card worked... for a while. Long enough for me to install netatalk on my Raspberry Pi and get a network drive mounted on the SE/30. I think after restarting the Mac, the card stopped working. I am not sure if setting it to slot B did anything, but I believe it's just a coincidence.
Asante troubleshooter says "NIC Transmission Failed". But it also (rarely) sometimes says "NIC Transmission Failed. Collision Detected" and even "NIC Transmission Failed. Carrier sense not detected" (Or something like this, sorry, didn't get a screenshot). At one point, I had it telling me that the carrier wasn't detected but only when the RJ45 cable wasn't connected to the AUI to 10Base-T transceiever.
The Raspberry Pi the card is directly connected to auto-negotiates correctly as 10Mb/s half-duplex.
Observations
When I click the "Test" button in Asante Troubleshooter with only "Network Interface Controller Test" selected.
Troubleshooting ideas
Any other thoughts? I'm totally stumped and would LOVE to have this card working. I was ecstatic for the hour that I had netatalk serving files to my SE/30.
This is my first post on this excellent forum. The content here was extremely helpful for me to recap my SE/30.
"Mac Con for IISi SE/30. P/N 09-00005-00 REV. C2"
Background
I acquired an SE/30 with an Asante MacCon card installed on eBay a few months ago. I recapped the motherboard, power supply, and analog board as well as gave it a deep cleaning. I also removed the hard drive and floppy drive and connected the SCSI on it to the excellent RaSCSI board. All is up and working perfectly now except the network card.
The first thing I noticed is that the fuse on the daughterboard was blown; likely someone in the distant past tried to plug a Mac Monitor into the DB15 AUI port and this shorted AUI pin 13 (+12V) to ground. I replaced the fuse and got my AUI transciever to power on.
Symptoms
Card doesn't seem to work. Asante Troubleshooter told me "NIC Transmission Failed" no matter what I did.
Frustrated, I moved the slot-select jumpers on the card to off for both JP1 and JP2 which selects slot B. After doing this, the card worked... for a while. Long enough for me to install netatalk on my Raspberry Pi and get a network drive mounted on the SE/30. I think after restarting the Mac, the card stopped working. I am not sure if setting it to slot B did anything, but I believe it's just a coincidence.
Asante troubleshooter says "NIC Transmission Failed". But it also (rarely) sometimes says "NIC Transmission Failed. Collision Detected" and even "NIC Transmission Failed. Carrier sense not detected" (Or something like this, sorry, didn't get a screenshot). At one point, I had it telling me that the carrier wasn't detected but only when the RJ45 cable wasn't connected to the AUI to 10Base-T transceiever.
The Raspberry Pi the card is directly connected to auto-negotiates correctly as 10Mb/s half-duplex.
Observations
When I click the "Test" button in Asante Troubleshooter with only "Network Interface Controller Test" selected.
- Sometimes the yellow LED on the daugherboard blinks, but only if I've set the switch on the daugherboard to TN instead of TK. If I set the switch back to TK, the LED continues to blink on "test" until resetting the machine.
- Sometimes the Tx LED on my transceiver blinks when I click the "Test" button, but no packets are seen in the raspberry pi I have directly connected when running tcpdump.
Troubleshooting ideas
- Acquire a 10Base-2 hub and see if I can make this work through thinnet.
- Start replacing the transceiver ICs on both the MacCon card and its daugherboard.
Any other thoughts? I'm totally stumped and would LOVE to have this card working. I was ecstatic for the hour that I had netatalk serving files to my SE/30.
