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No sooner had I posted the above, I finally figured it out:

Great news. I agree that the VM300 can be flaky at times - so I'm still keen to explore the OpenWRT route. But since quite a few people have already bought a VM300, I feel somewhat obliged to get the extension working with the VM300 first. I would love for an OpenWRT device to also support a...

Great minds think alike - I had already ordered that exact cable from CablesOnline :)

@Trash80toHP_Mini haha that's EXACTLY what I'm trying to do! You might remember from another post that I can't get my Daystar Turbo and other PDS network cards to work together - so I'm going to attempt to use a SCSI Ethernet adapter instead. I also have an Asante Micro EN/SC, and I hope to...

Yep just 2 variations for colour and 1-bit displays.

No dev today, but I drew the icons for the various states - it's been a very long time since I last did pixel pushing like this!

Awesome, thanks.

Apologies if this has been asked before - but is it possible to chain multiple SCSI drives or other devices to the internal port on a SE/30 logic board? Specifically, I'd like to mount an Asante SCSI Ethernet device inside the Mac instead of outside. Obviously there'd be some changes to the...

haha! It's a shame that the device needs to reboot when changing networks - I guess I'll need to make the extension poll the device until it's rebooted which is a bit yuk. Thanks for the feedback.

@joethezombie glad to hear you got it working. Did you hit any issues along the way? I was thinking of writing a wiki article on the setup process.

@CC_333 a password dialog will be coming soon. I've already got a preferences file set up for caching the networks, so I hope to store credentials in there too. I haven't done any testing outside of 7.5 yet. The code relies on Thread Manager and MacTCP (or Open Transport) - so I guess it should...

OK I've implemented the Thread Manager into the networking stack, which now allows the HTTP requests to frequently yield time to other tasks. But there were still limitations to the Thread Manager, so I had to move all of the long processing into a background application. Long story short, the...

@K55 thanks for the info. I had thought the Thread Manager was an OS 8 thing, but wrong I was... cheers.

Yeah it's old school on the Mac too, it's called WaitNextEvent... No concept of Threads on System 7!

Using the proven software development technique of "trying random sh*t until something works", I now have a functioning network list, reading from the VM300: Still lots of problems to solve, the main one being that the whole system locks up for 10 seconds when clicking the menu (while waiting...

Cool. I've done a bit more groundwork on the extension, I've linked it up to the HTTP library and I've created a base class that should allow us to add other wifi cards such as the one you've ordered. Updates are on GitHub. I've hit a new issue where DNS resolution is failing when making HTTP...

@techknight and @Trash80toHP_Mini, what you are suggesting is exciting and scary - perhaps we need a new thread for Raspberry Pi acceleration! What's most exciting in my opinion is that it would allow many people to speed up their old macs, as cards like Daystar Turbo's are near impossible to...

@hfrazier I figured out my 404 issue - turns out a GET request should not include the host in the path unless it's through a proxy, i.e: Wrong: GET http://vonets.cfg/a.asp HTTP/1.1 Host: vonets.cfg Right: GET /a.asp HTTP/1.1 Host: vonets.cfg The reason I didn't pick it up is because...

@nickpunt thanks for your input - it's definitely worth considering a Raspberry Pi, or maybe an Arduino board. A while back I thought these boards would be overkill - i.e when is a vintage Mac no longer a vintage Mac? But the idea of also having a HTTPS proxy inbuilt would be really cool. I've...

Actually, if we were to look for a replacement card - we could try one that supports OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/). I've never used it, but I'm pretty certain OpenWRT lets you set the speed & duplex. e.g. the TP-Link TL-WR703N can apparently be re-imaged to use Open...