So the Performa 6214CD rears its ugly head again! Say, do you by any chance
subscribe to vintage.macs, Michael...? :)
Amber
on 8/16/01 5:00 PM, Michael Griffith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I picked up an Asante Ethernet board for my Performa 6214CD, but have been
> unable to get it to communicate with the Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router.
> The router currently has Win95, iMac, and PowerTower Pro machines attached
> and working.
>
> I have tried clean installs of System 7.6, 9.04, and 9.1, followed by
> Asante's Ethertalk 5.6.1. In each instance, I configure Appletalk for
> Ethernet, then TCP/IP to obtain an address from from a DHCP server. The
> settings are identical to the ones on the other Mac machines using the
> router.
>
> The PowerTower Pro works fine when connected to the same cable/port that I
> am using for the Performa, so I don't think it is a wiring or router
> problem.
>
> Asante Tech. Support has had be try reloading the operating system, rebuild
> the desktop, trash the relevant preference and MacTCP DNR files, and relaod
> the Asante software. I have been told by Asante that it must be a router
> problem (but it works fine with other machines) or the Ethernet card. The
> next Tech. Support person said it couldn't possibly be the card, but had to
> be a corrupted file somewhere. (I have been doing a low level format of the
> HD for every install.)
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Michael J. Griffith
>
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