On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:34 PM, James Chapel wrote:
Switching both to DHCP, then restarting
the mac with the standard apple enet driver enabled, brought the
card back to life in Mac OS 9.2.1, indicating network activity on both
the switch and Apple PCI card. As an experiment, I thought I'd leave
the mac set to DHCP while retaining some control through manual
settings on the PC. After restart, that took down the connection and I
have yet to replicate my earlier solution. Again, thoughts or
suggestions will be very appreciated.
One comment: This is one of the myriad reasons why I moved to OS X at 10.2 and
never looked back.
Since it worked for you for a short period of time, you now know that the card
works and OS 9.2 can see it.
Have you tried re-installing OS-9, doing a custom install to include JUST the
ethernet bits? OS 9 ONLY installs the drivers for hardware that was present at
installation time..if you add a USB card or a Firewire card, for example, you
need to install those drivers from the OS 9 install disk, or to re-apply the
latest combo updater for OS 9.2.1.
The fact that you're using the driver from 8.1 is likely the issue. SInce it's
an Apple bit of hardware, if Apple doesn't offer drivers for OS 9, (you have
looked, haven't you?) it means that the driver is included as part of the OS
install, and not separately (USB is this way. The separate USB drivers Apple
offers only work for OS 8, you use the OS 9 install disk or combo updaters to
install USB drivers under OS 9)
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Bruce Johnson
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