AsanteFast NuBus 10/100 on OS 8.6 or 9.1?

[trag]

Have any of you used the AsanteFast 10/100 NuBus ethernet card under 8.6 or 9.1? Does it work properly? Any issues or special knowledge for installing the drivers or does one just install the provided Asante driver. It looks like the card came out back when 7.x was still king, and I'm having some problems which may not be related to the NIC, but I've been wondering about this for a while.

 

[TylerEss]

I always wanted one of those 100Mbps NuBus cards back when I was using NuBus PowerMacs, but could never get my hands on one. :-(

I hope you have good luck getting it working!

 

[equill]

What Asanté considered to be the capacity of NuBus AsantéFAST cards you can get from here. I use Asanté cards almost exclusively amongst 40-odd Macs, but none is a 'G2' NuBus machine, so I can offer no comment about your principal question. However, PCI AsantéFAST cards work flawlessly in 'G2', G3/G4-upgraded and G3/G4-native Macs, and NuBus AsantéFAST cards do likewise in 68K NuBus machines such as 040-upgraded, 040-native and fast 030.

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[trag]

What Asanté considered to be the capacity of NuBus AsantéFAST cards you can get from here.

Thank you for the link. I did read that first before posting, hoping for some enlightenment. The problem is that Asante wrote the documentation when only OS 7 was avaialable (AFAICT) and there are no notes about compatibility with later software.

I use Asanté cards almost exclusively amongst 40-odd Macs, but none is a 'G2' NuBus machine, so I can offer no comment about your principal question. However, PCI AsantéFAST cards work flawlessly in 'G2', G3/G4-upgraded and G3/G4-native Macs, and NuBus AsantéFAST cards do likewise in 68K NuBus machines such as 040-upgraded, 040-native and fast 030.

Hmmm. So 8.6 on an 8100 is somewhat different territory. Will 68K Macs run 8.6? I can't remember what the machine-OS limit is any more. It's possible that they never tested out 8.6 or 9.1 because only the PPC NuBus machines could go that high.

At any rate, I used the built-in ethernet, and it worked flawlessly to transfer the files. It was probably a little slower than the 10/100 would have been, but I could have spent hours fiddling to get the 10/100 to work, so just going ahead with the built-in was probably faster.

Tyler, if you ever find you can't live without a 10/100 NuBus card let me know. I'll sell you one for $25 plus shipping. I have a few refurbished (from Asante) units in the box which have not been used.

 

[yestermac]

I have a couple AsanteFast 10/100 NuBus cards. I know it worked fine on OS 8.1 in both an 8100 and 7100 with G3 upgrades. It also worked fine on my Q700 under 7.6.1 with a 33MHZ upgrade. I'll have a look at my 8100 because I'm not real certain what OS I'm running now. I know I didn't do anything special to get it working.

 

[trag]

So perhaps teh jumper from 8.1 to 8.5/8.6 is where the AsanteFast breaks? Or perhaps there was just something about that 8100's configuration that it did not like.

 

[Bunsen]

'G2' NuBus / PCI / 'G2'

I've always thought of the Nubus PowerMacs as G1 myself. Makes sense, saves confusion.
The x200 series should be called GYBother

 

[beachycove]

Would one of these work in a IIfx under System 6?