>The control panel for DSL does not allow me to select the card in the PCI
>slot (it behaves as if there were no card installed)
I'm not sure which control panel you mean, but once you have the
correct driver installed, your card interface should appear as an
option in the pop-up menu in the AppleTalk and TCP/IP control panel
apps.
>Do I need a driver (system extension, control panel etc.) to use the
>Ethernet card?
You do need a driver to use any ethernet device, and it'll be in the
form of an extension file.
>The extension named "Apple Ethernet CS II" which is installed is wrong,
>isn't it? It's for a card in the Communication Slot, right?
Yup, for the second version of that slot. Since you don't have that
card, you can disable or trash the extension, as well as any other
Apple ethernet extensions other than the exact one you need. The
others won't do any harm, but they slow down booting a little bit as
they run and check for their respective devices.
>Where can I get the correct software?
>
>I have MacOS 8.6 installed.
It may already be installed, but disabled (via the Extensions
Manager). You don't actually say what make of card you have in there,
but assuming it is in fact an Apple-branded card, you want the file
"Apple Enet", which contains all the drivers for PCI ethernet devices
Apple sold (most, if not all of which are built onto the motherboards
of PCI Macs). Older versions of the OS (before 8.5) called this file
"Ethernet (built-in)". In fact the naming scheme has changed a rather
annoying amount over the years.
If you don't find the Apple Enet extension, use the Tomeviewer
application to get it from the Tome file on the 8.6 CD (or update).
If the card you have wasn't sold by Apple but rather by a third
party, you may still find it works with the Apple Enet driver
(because there aren't that many ethernet chipsets, and many Mac cards
use the DEC 21041 "Tulip" set or a variant of it). In fact any
Tulip-based card will work with the drivers from Apple, Asante,
Farallon, or Dayna, regardless of the manufacturer (and regardless of
whether it was sold for PC or Mac). Just don't install more than one
of those drivers at a time. But if the card doesn't work with Apple
Enet, figure out who made it and go to the respective manufacturer's
site and hunt it down by model number. If it wasn't made for the Mac
market at all and doesn't use a common chipset, you're probably out
of luck (then again, you can probably find a DEC Tulip-based card for
the PC for $5).
btw, the DuoDock's built-in interface uses "Apple Built-in Ethernet"
or some variant on that name depending on the OS version (but always
starting with "Apple", unlike the "Ethernet Built-in" file - yes,
this is about as clear as mud). Others include:
Ethernet CS is the Apple card for the original Comm Slot (a modified
NuBus slot)
CS II is for the Apple card that goes in the Comm Slot in later, PCI-based Macs
LC is for the old LC PDS cards
NB is for the original Apple NuBus Ethernet card.
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