. > >Any way the analog board might have something to do with this problem (did >the VGA mod - NOT Hi Res)? Seems to me that that's about all that's left ... >Unless I got some freaky-weird software thing going on... I'm on my 2nd >MoBo, 2nd PDS ethernet card (both Asantes), 1 comm slot e-net card, about >1000 clean installs of the OS, and a partridge in a pear tree. > >Any ideas/suggestions/smart remarks? :P
Yes. You forgot to mention that you walked on the water... ;-) Looks very much like you are with your back against the wall, just like I am sometimes when I try to network some more of my son's and my Macs. So what, I'm just a simple anaesthetist... For your special issue I can only contribute a few ideas (CC on ethernet working fine here, thanks Bill Brown!). As your Comm Slot card is third-party, are you sure it does not need a special driver? I know, Phil Beesley (who knows a lot more about networking than I do) recommended to start trying with Apple's drivers, but the PDS cards in my SEs and SE/30s most of the time work best with the latest Asant� drivers (Asant� EthetTalk v5.6.1). As for the CC, I still use it with its original board although it's been years Bill provided me with a 575 mobo, but other things came in between. Anyway, I fired it up especially for this occasion. It has EtherTalk Phase II v2.5.2 running under 7.1, no specific Asant� Ethernet card drivers, although it uses a MacCon LC - A (exactly what you said, Phil!). Works like a charm, and both ways: I can easily access the CC from my G4 Sawtooth running 9.2.2, and the CC "sees" the G4, but cannot mount any of the partitions because they are too big. Works for me. (Maybe I'll create a special "orphans's" partition next time I work on this 120 GB, or on the slave HD, once original.) If it's not a driver issue, could it be one of the machines connected did not properly understand that it was sharing volumes? Did you check on all components that FileSharing was active and the volume in question was opened for transfer? (You know, sometimes I wondered why I did not see a 68k Mac on my network and found out I had missed to switch from AirPort to Ethernet, so forgive me these basics: It's all happened to me...) If the Mac booted and worked normally as a single machine, neither the analog board nor the enabler should be the problem, but the cards, the cables, the hub or the mobos. Keep on trying, put known-good components in the places where possibly defective hardware sits... and keep us posted... Cheers, OM /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
