Is the ethernet connection in the computer built into the motherboard or is it a pci card? If it's a card then you probably need drivers.
If it's built into the motherboard you might need proprietary drivers from Starmax that probably came on the original cd's. That's my 2 cents. Harry on 10/11/2002 3:16 PM, Dan Crutcher at dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote: Here's a strange one for all you system sleuths: I'm trying to install OS 9 on a Mac clone (remember those?), a Motorola Starmax 3000/180 (PPC 603 chip running at 180 Mhz). I initialized the hard drive and did the install with the OS 9 CD (it's actually OS 9.0.4). The install seems to go fine, but when I reboot and try to use the computer, I note that I have no connection to the Ethernet LAN that the computer is connected to. First thing I do is check the Appletalk control panel to make sure that it's connection mode is set to "Ethernet" and, lo and behold, find that there is no option listed in the control panel's pop-up menu for an Ethernet connection, just "Printer", "Modem" and "Remote". Thinking that somehow the installer failed to install the appropriate Ethernet extension, I went back and did a custom install of all the Ethernet extensions. Rebooted. No change. I re-initialized the disk and repeated the installation. Same result. I look in the System/Extensions folder and find several Ethernet extensions, including: Apple Built-in Ethernet Apple Enet Apple Ethernet CS Apple Ethernet CSII Apple Ethernet LC Apple Ethernet NB So what's missing? What extension or control panel or piece of system software tells the Appletalk control panel to offer an "Ethernet" connection option? I intend to upgrade to 9.2.2, but in order to do that I have to first be able to access the network where the upgraders reside. Thanks. Dan The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see . A calendar of activities is at . Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021011/60482ac3/attachment.html
