Hey Dan, I believe this system originally shipped with OS 7.6.1. From Apple?s standpoint, I don?t believe they ever officially supported OS 8 running on this (or any clone) although I?ve seen OS 8.x running on a variety of clones with no problem whatsoever. You can?t take for granted that OS 9 is compatible and will run on these systems without a hitch.
The second thing (and primary thing) to consider is your ethernet adapter. Newer?s GURU states that only some of these models shipped with a 10BaseT adapter. So this generates the following questions: Does your cpu have an ethernet adapter installed? If so, did it come stock with this unit or added after the fact? Your problems imply that your cpu lacks the adapter altogether or a third-party adapter was installed after the fact and the proper third party drivers need to be installed to enable ethernet. If both of those assumptions are incorrect, then I would tend to assume that this cpu has some compatibility issues with OS 9. The simple way to test that is to perform a clean install of OS 8.x and see if you get ethernet to work. And if everything you try fails to produce a working ethernet connection, you may have a bad adapter. Also, something as simple as zapping PRAM or deleting your Appletalk preferences may produce positive results. Good Luck, Dan! Ward Oldham 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 . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021011/6efffc7b/attachment.html
