Network on SE30

[surfer150]

Hello together,

I have an issue getting network on my SE30 with Mac OS 8.1. It has the Asanté MacCon SE30E network card in it with driver version 5.6.1 installed.

I connected it to my router using an AUI to RJ45 10BASE-T transceiver (Allied Telesyn AT-210TS). The link LED turns on but there’s no network. I’m not getting any DHCP. I also tried setting the IP manually in the TCP/IP control panel, but i still can’t ping the SE30.

After that i tried to connect it directly to my laptop. I manually assigned IPs from the same subnet on both ends (laptop and SE30) but i still can’t ping the SE30. The link negotiation seems to work, it shows a negotiated 10 MBit/s in the network adapter properties.

As I don’t know further has anybody an idea what’s going wrong here? Is the MacCon even compatible with MacOS 8.1?

 

[Fred1212]

Do you have any other early Macs that you can try to connect to via Appletalk? This would confirm everything hardware and software is correct. Why 8.1 on an SE/30 and not the 7.6.1 sweetspot?

 

[robin-fo]

Did you try loading any website or do pings from the SE/30? The TCP/IP stack often only gets loaded only when first needed.