This is what I got from asante:

>From: Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Zach Bragin' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: EN/SC
>Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:02:09 -0700
>
>Zach,
>
>No.  The EN/SC will not work with the PowerBook Duo 2300c.  The Asant� 
>EN/SC
>product line is a very niche market product.  It was designed to give 68020
>and 68030 processor Macintosh computers with no other way to connect to an
>ethernet network a connection through its SCSI port.  It required a special
>ethernet driver to be installed to activate it, which driver was only made
>for the Macintosh operating system.  Any other type of driver is not
>available for this product.  Releasing the code for an individual or 
>company
>to write a new driver is not an option according to our legal department.
>
>The Asant� EN/SC is not PowerPC processor compatible.  Apple Technical
>Support indicates  that some LC040's and ALL 68040 systems, and ALL Power
>Macintosh computers use higher SCSI transfer rates 5 Mega Bits / Second.
>The SCSI Controller is a NCR-53C96. These faster SCSI Controllers are being
>used on ALL 68040 Macs and Power Macintosh systems currently released from
>Apple.
>
>Our SCSI to Ethernet products do not work in the systems which have SCSI
>transfer rates greater than 1.5 MB/sec.  Since we do not support this SCSI
>Controller IC within our software or hardware, or the increased SCSI data
>rates, our SCSI Family of products will not work at all with these systems.
>
>Alan Larsen
>Asant� Technologies, Inc.
>Technical Support
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.asante.com/
>ftp://ftp.asante.com/
>
> > ----------
> > From:       Zach Bragin
> > Sent:       Wednesday, May 3, 2000 7:42 PM
> > To:         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:    EN/SC
> >
> > Will the mini EN/SC adapter work on a PowerBook Duo 2300c with a Newer
> > Tech
> > SCSI microdock?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Zach Bragin
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