No, I just saw it. there and knew you were feed up with the Asante card

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Sterling Jacobson <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Is that your ebay listing for that card that just posted then?
>
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>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Abel Ortiz Monasterio
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:10 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: Anyone have a SE/30 known working ethernet card they can
> sell me?
>
>
>
> Sterling,
>
> I'm almost sure that this is a cabletron card
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310161399127, (The
> asante should have a pass through PDS)  (It could be a Farallon card) Does
> anyone no for sure? I have one that came with I computer that I got for
> parts but I've never tried to use it.
>
>  I found the drivers on line for the cabletron and can e-mail them to you,
> if it turns out to be a cabletron, you can probably find  the Farallon
> drivers too.
>
> Abel
>
>
>  On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Abel Ortiz Monasterio <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Dave,
>
> I have a new Asante card that I have not installed. I have been moving so I
> haven't  have time to play with my SE/30 but when I do I'll try it and let
> the group know how it went.
>
> Abel
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I have installed Asante e-net cards in a SE/30 and a IIci (same card
> type in both). If you want to try once again here are a few pointers
> to places I found information that made my installations work the
> first time.
>
> 1) Installation of OS 7.5.5 according to this recipe:
> http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/755/<http://www.fenestrated.net/%7Emacman/755/>
>
> 2) Here is where I found the switch configuration info for the Asante
> card:
> http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/network-cards/netoth_1.html
>
> 3) Note the "Slot Address" jumper table at the Stason site. Here is
> the secret decoder for which "Slot" to assign. Info is about 3/4 of
> the way down the page, in the "SE/30 PDS slot addresses" table:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/se30_pds_multiple.html<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egamba2/se30_pds_multiple.html>
>
> 4, 5) Asante cards for the SE/30 are Apple driver compatible, so I
> used Apple 1.5.1 Ethernet card drivers, if I recall correctly, I
> selected nubus adapter when the choice comes up.  First time the
> installation won't work because of a can't remove file error. The ?
> [can't remember name]? file can't be replaced.  Use the unhide tools
> to find and remove the ?[can't remember name]? file named by the
> installer in either the Control Panel or Extension folder then re-run
> the installer:
> http://www.macdrivermuseum.net/network.html
> http://www.tempel.org/mac/#UnhideTools
>
> I'd ignore item 1 at first and see if you can't make the card work
> following the other tips first.  But, do read the instructions for a
> 7.5.5 installation and see if you don't want to do it anyway.
>
> Hope this finds and fixes a configuration problem for you--frustrating
> but cheaper if your cars is actually good.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Aug 7, 11:08 am, Sterling <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm pissed off with this Asante junk I bought NIB from Ebay.
> > I've tried everything to get it to work in my Mac SE/30, but it just
> > won't work.
> >
> > So I'm done with it.
> >
> > If anyone has a good working SE/30 ethernet PDS card with drivers they
> > can sell I would appreciate it.
> > At least then I could find out if it's FOR SURE the crappy Asante or
> > maybe my SE/30 somehow.
>
>
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