--- On Sat, 1/16/10, hartonj <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well. New news. The long and short of
> it is one chip removed from
> board and re-seated and the card seems to be working now
> (sort of). I
> still can't get it to connect to a hub/switch/router and
> because of
> that it complains that it can't see the dns server
> (specified in the
> settings). Anyone got any helpful advice on this?
Yup, since most network cards for 68k Macs predate 100 megabit ethernet, most
of them don't properly identify themselves as being capable of only 10 megabit,
half duplex. Asante brand cards are especially known for that problem.
Better 10/100 hubs/switches/routers can handle that, but some rely solely on
the NICs in the computers properly using media identification.
The solution is to get any 10 megabit hub and daisy chain it between your old
Mac and your 10/100 box.
Another solution is a switch or router with user configurable port settings.
Those either have a serial "console" port or can be logged into via an Ethernet
port to configure speed, duplex and other settings for each port.
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