How do I use a etherport se?

[Amahoola]

Hello,

Recently I bought a pair of mac's one of them didn't work so I, used parts of the other one to make one good mac.

In this mac was also a kinetics etherport. But I am a niewbie so I don't know how I sould install it or witch cable I have to use.

I hope somebody can help me because it would be really cool if I could connect to IRC.

 

[Charlieman]

Well done. You've bought one of the first Ethernet cards for the Mac.

What does the card look like -- and the bit which replaced a blanking plate? Are there any switches or DIP switches on the card?

I have documentation for this card, but I'm not sure whether there were different versions

 

[Amahoola]

I've made an album filled with some detailed foto's

http://imgur.com/a/E0fVD

 

[Charlieman]

What is your home network? If you can run thinwire, flip the switch on the Etherport SE towards the BNC port and plug in.

If your home network works with 10mbps utp, you need an AUI transceiver which plugs into the 15 pin connector -- with a bayonet fastening. Most transceivers will work.

Some, perhaps many, utp network routers don't work with old utp network transceivers. One trick is to interpose a bridge between the router and old ethernet card:

Old NIC <--> AUI transceiver/utp <--> utp bridge <--> utp router.

The utp bridge is just an old 10mbps unintelligent network bridge.

 

[olePigeon]

I find that an old 10/100 Netgear switch works great as your utp bridge.  They're dirt cheap.

The ethernet card may or may not work when simply dropped in.  If it doesn't work, you may have to do a fresh install of System 6 or 7.  That may be a whole other kettle of fish for you, though.