What machine do you have? Most of the macs have built-in ethernet cards, and
most have the ability to add one in there. RTL8139C/D cards are PCI cards
that work well, *and* also have drivers that make them work for 7.6+

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:07 AM, martynl <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> In my quest to get networking running, I downloaded mactcp-
> watcher-20.hqx. Unfortunately, I discovered that the version of
> Stuffit I have on the Mac (1.6) is too old to decode the enclosed SIT
> file.
>
> I have spent a couple of hours trying to get a working version of
> stuffit that can download this file.
>
> Latest versions of Mac stuffit are way too large, since I need to
> download on the PC and transfer to the Mac via a single floppy.
> I downloaded Windows stuffit, but while it could decode the files OK,
> they (of course) didn't retain their creators and other attributes
> when moved to the Mac via PC floppy.
>
> I have found a few versions of Stuffit Lite 3.6 online, but each of
> these is in an hqx archive (which I can decode) containing an SIT
> archive (which is also too new for Stuffit 1.6).
>
> I found a copy of Stuffit Lite 3.6 online which was in MacBinary
> format. I really thought I had a program to decode macbinary, but I
> can't find it anywhere. And online sources seem to recommend using
> Stuffit to decode MacBinary.
>
> So what I need to find is a Stuffit Lite version that fits on a floppy
> and is either uncompressed, in a self-extractor, or in a format that
> Stuffit 1.6 can decode. Clicked on a bunch of links without finding
> one yet.
>
> Any recommendations on how to break out of the maze?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martyn
>
>
>
> >
>

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