Clark,
I'm glad to know that a MiniDIN 3 to RJ-11 adapter might still exist,
although the need seems less urgent after the past few messages.
The vendor for the ISA card seemed to believe that Linux drivers for the
card do exist. I'm not too concerned about any production use of this
lash-up; it's all just experimentation for amusement. The vendor also
showed the card with the correct PhoneNet adapter, hence the questions
about MiniDIN 3 to RJ-11.
I not only do Low End Mac, I also do Low End GNU/Linux. My GNU/Linux box
uses a Pentium 200 with MMX, 128M main memory, 8M PCI video, and 15G HD
space. It uses an ISA ethernet card, for crying out loud! Adding an ISA
AppleTalk card seems somehow appropriate.
When I get all done, I should have an AppleTalk network linking my Macs,
with a spur off to the GNU/Linux box and an ethernet connecting one of the
Macs, the GNU/Linux box, and the Windows boxen to the firewall (another
low-end box) and thence to the Internet. With any luck, I should be able to
route it into a pair of Moebius strips, conjoin them into a Klein bottle,
crate the whole thing up in a tesseract, fold in the walls, and disappear
permanently into the Other Plane. ;-)
Sp00ky
At 01:44 PM 6/14/2002 -0700, Clark Martin wrote:
>At 3:28 PM -0500 6/14/02, Spiritus ex Machina wrote:
>[...snip...]
> >I would prefer to use Apple-branded hardware with my Macs. However, I have
> >a chance to get a Farallon ISA AppleTalk card for my Linux box and, as I
> >understand it, Farallon uses the modular phone cables. Does anyone make
> >some sort of modular-phone-jack-to-3-pin-connector adapter or are the two
> >systems electrically as well as physically incompatible?
>
>PhoneNet and LocalTalk can be intermixed and Farallon did sell a
>MiniDIN 3 to RJ-11 adapter.
>[...snip...]
>I don't think any one does LocalTalk for any flavor of Unix. It
>isn't worth the effort. Simplest approach is to use Ethernet and
>then a EtherTalk to LocalTalk bridge or router.
>
>The ISA - LocalTalk cards used either a MiniDIN 8 or DE-9 serial port
>and then required a separate adapter to go to LocalTalk or PhoneNet.
>--
>Clark Martin
>Redwood City, CA, USA
>Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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>
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