On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Ben Pazolli wrote:
Simple question hopefully, I have just received a 7-inch Cyrix 586
100MHz
Compatibility Card for my Power Macintosh 7200/120, which I bought
off eBay
for just under $20 AUD or $14 USD. Very happy, I am playing all my
old dos
games and running Windows 3.11. The problem is I have tried but
can't setup
my network on the 586 side. I have a TCP/IP network with DCHP,
works fine on
the Mac side. Any pointers would be great and I read somewhere that
there
are problems running the same protocol on both sides. If so, could
someone
explain the workaround clearer?
The list has been quiet. Probably not too many folks still using
these items. I have an OrangePC 520 card. While I have had no
difficulty in getting networking functional with Win95, I have never
been able to get it working with MS DOS.
MicroOrange the maker of my card, does supply additions/drivers that
they represent as workable. I have never been sure whether the
problem is with the network drivers or my configuration of them. I do
not recall if Apple supplied DOS drivers for networking or not. The
Orange PC is gone along with the company that made it. Their site has
been mirrored at a couple locations and I do have all their drivers
if they would be of benefit to you. I find it odd that Novell's old
DOS network drivers remain tightly controlled commercial software.
There is a DOS browser that comes with its own built in drivers for
accessing the internet, but I have not had any luck using those either.
I enjoy using an old operating system known as GEOS, which runs on
top of DOS. My card has a 166 processor and I have been a bit
frustrated that it will only run MS DOS (it will run DR DOS too). I
have had no luck in trying to use OS/2 or BeOS on the card.
bill
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