On May 2, 3:45 pm, Boyer Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to finding a PDS ethernet card for the SE, I'm going to > need to find a way to get ethernet on a non expansion slot mac. > Are there recommendations or places I could obtain a SCSI to > ethernet or serial to ethernet adaptor?
The SCSI to Ethernet adapters were made by Asante, Dayna and Farallon. Asante made at least three different models. In addition to the Micro EN/SC for PowerBooks, there was the Desktop EN/SC (sometimes called the Mini): <http://amro_akiba.at.infoseek.co.jp/network/desktopensc.JPG> And the full sized (probably the original) EN/SC: <http://geektechnique.org/projects/asante.html> The latter two have DB25 SCSI ports making them easy to connect to a Classic II. They may not have RJ45 jacks, but they will have AUI ports and AUI to 10baseT transceivers are cheap and plentiful. I do not know if they will transmit TCP/IP packets. I know of no serial port to ethernet adapter. Either of the Mac's serial ports can be configured to act as a LocalTalk network port and there are LocalTalk to Ethernet bridges available, again by the three companies mentioned above. Asante made the AsantePrint originally and then slimmed it down to the MicroAsantePrint. Then later they dropped many of the fancier network utilities that one would probably never use at home and changed the name to the AsanteFast. The latter came out about when the iMac came out. There was still a lot of LocalTalk in use at that time and the iMac was the first Mac with no LocalTalk support, but it had built-in ethernet, so the AsanteFast was a convenient way for folks to get the iMac on their old LocalTalk networks. However, IIRC the Localtalk/Ethernet bridges only bridge AppleTalk packets, and not TCP/IP packets. The Mini EN/SC is somewhat hard to find. But there were a lot of them, way back when. The MicroAsantePrint or AsanteFast should be pretty easy to find. I haven't kept track of current pricing. Jeff Walther -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
