Kris, I appreciate your suggestions. I expanded this to included appletalk, file sharing both extensions & control panel. I moved about 6 items from 9.1 to 9.2.1 one at a time. Restarted the computer....still the same thing. File sharing started up just fine. But when I went to appletalk and selected "ethernet" connections it responds by asking me to check my connections. So, I re-installed 9.1 and things, like usual are working "normal" in linking to my imac.
Thanks for ur suggestions and if u have others let me know. Russ, running on 9.1 On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Russell Brantner wrote: > >> Kris, >> >> Maybe this is the magic wand I'm looking for. Ur method certainly >> sounds good. I looked for ethernet in the system folder on my >> 9.1...found nothing about ethernet. This just means I don't >> understand the details, I'm sure. I know quite a bit about macs & >> their operation but I learn things new all the time. >> >> I really want to follow thru with ur recommendation. So, >> TomeViewer????, Educate me, never heard of this. All I know is I >> can't copy of some ext. ethernet in 9.1 and then reload 9.2 and >> replace it with my copy of what I don't have. > > I'm not 100% certain which ethernet extension is installed on your > PowerBook. Some of the PowerBooks had "special" ethernet extensions, > and later ethernet extensions were the "rolled into one" type. I was > unaware of any problems, normally this would be addressed by the OS 9 > Helper software. Once the OS9forever.com site was taken over by OWC > they instituted a fee to read the forums, which seems really bad to > me. They also run the XPF forums, but they're free to read, but only > registered persons can post. (don't register XPF, there is nearly zero > activity on the XPF forums, you can use Unsupported OS X list on > Google groups for free instead. I don't know about OS 9 Helper forums, > I suspect they're dead also?). > > TomeViewer can open OS 9 "tome" archives which the installer uses. > Here's a link: > <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4561> > You can then "extract" individual files for usage. This is often > helpful, for example, PCI & PCMCIA USB cards are notoriously finicky, > and many don't work with the OS 9.2 extensions, but may work perfectly > with extensions from 9.1, 9.0 or even 8.6. Getting a copy of the > correct extension would be very difficult without TomeViewer and using > the free Apple updates that you can download to extract the individual > extensions. In your case, you could probably upgrade to 9.2.2 and then > extract the necessary extension from the 9.1 CD or Update. > > On my Beige G3 which may be different than your PowerBook, the > ethernet extension is called "Apple Enet" and OS 9.1 has v.2.4.2, > while OS 9.2.2 has v.2.4.3 and the "final" OS 9 version was v.2.4.5. > If you don't have this extension in your OS 9.1 installation, (in the > System folder>Extensions folder), this means your PowerBook uses a > different ethernet extension, which isn't uncommon. I just took the > time to dig out my Kanga Powerbook running 9.2.2 and looked at it. > Sure enough, I'm using the Apple Enet v.2.4.2 from OS 9.1 in my OS > 9.2.2 Kanga, so that's the ticket for certain. My Kanga works fine. Go > ahead and upgrade if you want, and then place Apple Enet v.2.4.2 into > it and you should be good. > >> Make me smarter, please. > > I'm not exactly sure what smarter means, but if I could, I would. I'd > make everyone smarter. The funny thing is, I suspect even the smartest > people make stupid mistakes. I'm pretty certain that almost everything > that is discovered happens mostly from trial and error. Even if it's > planned and not trial & error, no one can predict a result of > something that's never been observed before. I anticipate a world full > of smarter people may be very similar to our own world? > > Best luck! > > Kris > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
