(Part 2 of 3..Due to Size) Ivan Drucker provided photos of his disassembled 2400 to mac2400 back in the early years. The attached reflects his latest exploits in getting OSX to run on the 2400...a 603e at that.
I'll try and get this on mac2400 over the weekend, and Ivan has even suggested he might do a step-by-step, but in the meantime he agreed that I could post this to the DuoList. He isn't currently a subscriber....but we're working on it. ;-) Continued from Part 1..... >identical at all. I just know that it didn't work and that I was bummed. > >Back to the drawing board. I once again scoured the net for a >manufacturer with OS X support for their Ethernet PC Card. I found no >one except...Asante! They had an unsupported driver for their card. Their >card was $68 (though I had a hard time locating for sale anywhere, even >online). I downloaded their driver to check it out and discovered that it >was not even theirs at all; it was written by Realtek and the >documentation in no way specifically referred to the Asante card. I >hadn't heard of Realtek but had come across their name many times while >trying to find drivers; apparently they are an inexpensive and very >common chipset, especially on lower-end cards, and so on other platforms >(e.g. Linux) there are a lot of people who have put work into supporting >them. > >I went to Realtek's website (http://www.realtek.com.tw), and, sure >enough, I found the same driver -- actually, a newer version. Well, I was >excited -- here were specific drivers for a specific card. The only >problem was that, again, I didn't know where I could get the Asante >immediately. But I figured that if I could find another card (including >the zillions which don't have Mac support) which used the Realtek >chipset, that might put me in good shape. Using what the CompUSA website >said was in stock at my store, I searched on every card to see if I could >figure out anything definitive about its chipset. > >In the end, the most promising candidate was CompUSA house brand 10/100 >Cardbus card, which was based on the Realtek chipset. $20. No joke. I >took back the Linksys, bought the CompUSA card, installed the driver >(which I downloaded in OS 9, of course)...and omigod it worked. It >worked! It registered itself as "Built-in Ethernet" in the Network System >Preferences. I felt quite triumphant! Soon, I was on the web, rocking and >rolling. I was really happy. > >Well, now all there was to get working was FireWire. I figured most of >the battle was over -- I'd enabled Cardbus, and seen it work with two >different cards. I ordered the IBM 1394 card from Other World Computing >(for $25, I decided I could wait a couple of days for it to arrive). When >I received it, I plugged it in, and I plugged my external drive into >that...voila! That worked too, easy as could be. Amazing! Next thing to >try was my iPod. iTunes launched. Not quickly, mind you, but it launched. > >Well, I was good to go, almost. I still wanted to use this machine with >OS 9 sometimes, and as has been noted on this website, 9 freezes during >startup if Cardbus cards are present. Even if I wanted to deal with that >nuisance by remembering to eject them before starting up into 9, there >was another problem: networking. I didn't have 9 drivers for the CompUSA >Cardbus card, meaning I'd have to put my Farallon Ethernet or wireless >card in instead whenever I was in 9. Not impossible, but hardly elegant. > >Fortunately, Realtek also provides OS 8/9 drivers for their card! Who >knew. I downloaded them, but one important detail in the readme said that >the drivers specifically do NOT support PC Card hot-swapping -- >therefore, the card must be present at startup. Catch-22 -- if the card >is present at startup, Mac OS 9 can't boot. What to do? I remembered >reading that OS 8.6 does NOT have the same startup issue with these cards >that OS 9 does. I figured for my purposes, 8.6 would be fine. I installed >it, and, sure enough, it booted. And the CompUSA Ethernet card worked too! See Part 3 of 3 Ralph Mawyer, Jr. San Antonio, Texas Associate Editor mac2400 ... http://www.sineware.com/mac2400 Your PowerBook 2400 Reference Site "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1759. ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! 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