--- Soviet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your mac have a ethernet network card, it's easy > as configuring the > tcp/ip control panel with a ip and the ip of the > router, also the dns. If > you don't have a network card on your mac (but still > it have pci slots) you > could take any realtek 8139 card, download the > driver for macos 8.1 - 9.1 > from realtek website and then you are ready to surf > the web.
I got a supposedly Mac compatable D-Link 503TX+ with a Realtek 8139 chip. D-Link had either bought the chips unmarked and put their markings on them or had Realtek make them with D-Link markings. At any rate, the card did NOT work in my 7300/200. The instructions specified a particular resource editing program (not ResEdit) and where to look for the PCI ID in the driver extention and how to use Apple System Profiler to find the PCI ID of the card. It told how to edit the PCI ID in the extention if it didn't match. It didn't match. Nor did the updated download supposedly specifically for the 503TX+. So I followed the instructions exactly, booted and *BLAM*. Something in the System files was corrupted to where it would only boot with extentions disabled, even if I removed the D-Link extention. I tried it with MacOS 9.1 and 9.2.2, with both versions of the driver from D-Link and the Realtek 8139 driver, all with and without editing the PCI ID. In every single case the result was a corrupted System. I got fed up with reinstalling OS 9.1 on one drive and 9.2.2 on the other. The poor 7300 is still in pieces after "donating" its hard drives to the Radius 81/110 with the Media 100 system. As for the D-Link 503TX+, it went into someone else's Windows PC where it works absolutely perfectly! So unless D-Link has done some serious bugfixing to the extention(s) for their cards, I wouldn't use them in a Mac, at least not with 9.1 or 9.2.2. Note that 9.1 is supported on the 7300, but only by booting from the CD to install. That might have something to do with the corruption problem. 9.2.2 was installed by using the freeware "OS9 Helper". (And yes, the 7300 did seem a bit faster with 9.2.2!) ===== It WAS total Fandemonium! http://www.fandemonium.org Didn't go? Fandemonium 2005 _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
