Mac SE and MacTCP

[just.in.time]

Hi All,

I have a Macintosh SE with a Farallon EtherMac SE-C card installed.  I have installed NSI 1.5.1 and the Farallon for LC/PDS cards utility.

All is great as far as the card appears to power on and the Farallon Diagnostics software can see the card, test the card, and everything passes.

Next, I installed MacTCP 2.0.6 w/ 2.1 patch.

Restarting, I open MacTCP and the only option I have is LocalTalk, but every tutorial I can find says there should be 2 to 3 icons in that window, with one of them being Ethernet.  I'm not seeing Ethernet in my MacTCP window.

I'm sure I'm just missing a simple step, but I can not figure it out.

Any suggestions, please post back

Thanks

 

[joethezombie]

What system software are you running?  I just got my Ethernet working on a Asante card with a fresh install of 7.1.1 update 3, albeit on an SE/30.

1. Installed AppleShare Workstation 3.5

2. Copied over MacTCP (patched 2.1)

3. Installed NSI 1.5.1

Reboot.

1. Open Network control panel and select EtherTalk

2. Open MacTCP and select Ethernet.  Close.

3. Open MacTCP and select (More...), Obtain Address: Manually.  Enter in subnet mask and router address.  Close

4. Open MacTCP and enter IP Address.  Close.

I think you'll be asked to restart in there somewhere.

After that, I opened up my Ping application and I could ping the router.

I did not have to install any drivers for the Asante card.

I'm off to bed now, but Good luck!

 

[just.in.time]

I'm running system 7.1 (tuneup 3.0)

Where were you able to find AppleShare Workstation 3.5?  I can find versions 2 and 4, but neither work on both 7.1 and a 68000 processor.

 

[just.in.time]

I've gotten MacTCP working on an SE/30 with Cabletron Ethernet card working before (running 7.5.x).  When I did that, I don't recall installing AppleShare Workstation, just the Cabletron software and MacTCP w/Patch to get it working.

This machine, no matter what, just does not want to play ball.  I've tried two different System 7.1 installs (both internal and on a Zip disk), Ethernet cable plugged in and unplugged, position of switch near ethernet card toggled between the two positions, Farallon software installed/not installed, NSI 1.5.1 installed/not installed)

Still nothing.  EtherTalk never shows up inside the Network control panel.  Only icon there is for LocalTalk.

Still, the card passes Farallon's EN Diagnostics software test.  Nothing looks suspicious or out of the ordinary.

I really want to avoid running 7.5 on this machine since it has a 4mb RAM limit.  That's the only difference I can identify between this system and my SE/30, software wise.

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[joethezombie]

Networking Downloads, including AppleShare Workstation 3.5:

http://www.applefool.com/se30/moreinfo.html#downloads

Networking wouldn't work for me until I installed the AppleShare Workstation.  The Classic Mac Networking Guide states it is "not necessarily required in all cases but is worth the effort".  I imagine in my case, it contains drivers for the Asanté Card.

The first step in the guide I forgot to mention is to enable AppleTalk in the Chooser.  On my installation, this was already enabled.

Other than that, I really can't add much.  Hope you get it working!

EDIT:  I also notice in those download links, there exists drivers for Farallon adapters, maybe try those versions.

 

[just.in.time]

Thank you, I'll give that a try.

 

[just.in.time]

It worked  Pushing files from my MacBook directly to the SE now.

The problem appears to have been that version 2.3 of Farallon's installer I had previously used no longer supported the SE card.  Version 2.2.2 in the link you provided did the trick.  Also installed AppleShare Workstation 3.5 for good measure.

Thank you!

 

[joethezombie]

Woo-Hoo!  Good job!