Hello.
I've just bought a brand new Asante FriendlyNet Integrated
PCMCIA/Cardbus Ethernet card for my secondhand PB1400. The box
promises Mac compatibility, from OS 8.5 to 9.x. Inserting the
thing was hard enough, but eventually it went into the top slot
(normal PCMCIA cards go in without difficulty).
The software was simple to install, but the card just doesn't
seem to be recognised by the system (OS 9.0). When I restart,
the system asks if I want to initialise the unreadable 2MB disk
in the PCMCIA slot (?) and if I cancel that, it comes back with
an unrecognised card error ("The correct software you need to
use the PC card in the 'Upper PC Card Slot' is not
installed...").
The best I can do is to get the icon on the desktop, but when I
do a Get Info on the icon, the system thinks it's a memory PC
card. Even an old PC network card that doesn't have Mac drivers
will show up as a network card on my PB1400.
The driver disk that came with the card has the same driver as
Asante's web site, and none of their technotes seem relevant.
Can anyone help me with this? It seems such a simple thing, but
for some reason it just does not work.
Thanks for any assistance,
Gary Patterson
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