At 15:38 -0800 02/25/2003, e. wu wrote:As Jeff said, if you just need access to printers, a localtalk bridge works very well. You do have to be particular about the printers as they all have to be AppleTalk network savvy to begin with. Also, not all EtherPrints were created equal. Some only allow as few as two devices, others as many as 8. They are on ebay quite often. Made by 2 companies: Asante and Dayna. Software for the Daynas is on line tho they are out of business, should you get one without. The software isn't need for the thing to run tho. It's pretty much a plug and play thing. I use a Dayna mini Etherprint T Plus (It'll do up to 8 devices.) here to hook up an old AppleTalk ImageWriter, and HP color ink jet, and an Apple laserwriter. They can be accessed by any computer on our home network.
Hi,
We have a bunch of C500's here (with OS 9. We don't plan on upgrading to OS X any time) that I'd like to upgrade but I'm having problem finding the right combo cards to make this work. Is there anything in existence that will let me add a video card for better resolution, ethernet, *and* usb even though there are only two PCI cards? I originally thought of just installing a video card and a usb card and running Ethernet over usb but I've heard that doesn't work on Macs?
I guess ideally I would be looking for some sort of combo-usb-ethernet card.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm not sure it still works in OS 9, but you could hunt down a EN-SC Ethernet Adapter from Asante. It plugs into your SCSI port. Obviously it requires some drivers from Asante, and I'm not sure how far those are compatible.
Do you need fast network performance on those machines, or just the ability to print to a network printer? If the latter, you could just use LocalTalk over PhoneNet cabling and connect them up to your Ethernet with an AsanteTalk or similar LocalTalk--Ethernet Bridge. You can put up to eight LocalTalk machines and/or printers on a single AsanteTalk.
I wouldn't recommend LocalTalk for file transfers these days as file sizes are so large these days, that the 230 Kbps is just too slow. But for printing it's fine and it wouldn't be horrible for a fast internet connection, I think. I'm not sure what happens if you try to do TCP/IP across the thing.
Jeff Walther
Expect to pay in the neighborhood of $30 if they're still going for that.
I haven't tried the SCSI adapters with a modern OS but they work well for most machines. Drivers are required tho, so I bet OSX is out. Also, some models don't work with all machines. Laptops and anything without power in the SCSI bus needs the kind with a "wall wart" for power. For some reason the llFX comes to mind as being problematic for this reason, tho I don't have any personal experience with that machine.
Hope that helped.
Steve
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