Well, the enet card for my Apple LCIII arrived today, and I installed same this afternoon. The OS is already OS7.1, so I think I'm set there. The memory went in last week. The floppy that came with the card talks about ethertalk, which I'm guessing is appletalk over twisted pair. I need to install TCPIP, so that I can at least get the LC on a network, to download a web browser, a ping utility, and an email program.
I believe that I need to find a copy of Open Transport 1.2.2 to run on OS 7.1. I have a cable modem, so I don't need PPP or modem dialing capabilities.
How do I get the Open Transport software to the Mac? I have an Ibook, but it lacks a floppy. My IBM PC has a floppy, but it won't read a floppy that's been formatted on the LC. The Enet card came with a floppy for Ethertalk, but I believe that this is appletalk, and not TCPIP. I'm also not sure if the LC will even talk to an OSX Ibook.
I love it. :)
Nullmodem, this contains its own set of problems.
Get the thing to talk to X :) all good fun if the network card doesn't work.
Ask nice and I'll post you the needed OT1.1.1 and OT1.1.2 update as 8 floppy images you can make on the pc then load into the mac, easy if you have 8 "known good" floppies and RaWriteWin, rawrite or the dd command in linux (X?).
dd if=diskx.img of=/dev/fd0
On windows or nix the floppy isn't read until accessed so writing a mac disk on a pc is easy with the right image. (well not the same as the mac)
There are other ways, you should get away with mactcp and a static connection but thats another story.
Good luck
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