Recent content by Glenn Anderson

I got my hands on an older Apple M0100 that has two screws on the bottom, like the Mitsumi, but has "Made in U.S.A." on the label. It also has an older style plug. This seems to work fine with the Apple IIc. The circuit board says Apple, and it has 3 pin optical sensors that must have a...

Also just stumbled across this archived document from Apple in the references on Wikipedia Mouse Compatibility: Macintosh Plus and Apple II Computers. It refers to two vendors, one "Made in the US" that works on both, and the other "Made in Japan". That matches with the labels on the Alps and...

I have 4 Apple M0100 mice, and only one of them is compatible with my Apple IIc. There are plenty of references online to how some are compatible, and some aren't, but nothing definitive about how to identify them, or what is different about them. So I opened my mice up, and the 3 that aren't...

I think you might have the wrong Asante installer. I just got one of these cards, and it needs the AsanteFAST 10/100 installer, and the AsanteFAST 10/100 installer didn't need the card to be present to install the driver. Try this one https://www.macintoshrepository.org/23359-asantefast-10-100-nubus

Did you just replace the 20MHz oscillator on the main card, or did you also replace the one on the connector board? Between the connector and the AT&T T7220 chip. Pretty much anything that stops the transmit path from working, while the receive path is still working, can result in a blinking...

The ones I have don't have this issue, so it isn't applicable to them. I have a MacCon for SE Rev C, and a MacCon for IIsi SE30 Rev C2. I haven't had any issues with these cards and modern ethernet switches. Cards that have this compatibility problem have a DP83902, and automatic media...

I have some DaynaPORT E/LC-M cards, which is actually quite a good card for computers with an LC PDS slot. They have the DP83934 SONIC-T chipset, which is quite a good 10Mb ethernet chipset, and is compatible with the Apple Ethernet LC Card. However coax ethernet is a pain these days, and for...

That chip is the ROM, it is the one with S9406AN on it that I would check the pins on. I think S9406AN is a date code (probably 1994 week 6), under the label it will have "DP83902AV" and "ST-NIC™", that is the ethernet chip. The label sticking over the edges might be obscuring something. The...

Just in case anyone else with a DaynaPort E/II-T is looking for information, this version of the DaynaPort E/II-T uses the "St." version of the driver. It also works with Apple's driver, but Apple's driver doesn't utilize all the RAM on the card.

Just looking through the resources for the installer, installing "DaynaPORT II" installs a driver for board ID 298, which is what I believe the DaynaPORT E/II-T is, the EtherPort II has that board ID. Installing the "DaynaPORT (St.) II" installs a driver for board ID 8. I have two of the...

Installing a resource in to the System file was typical, up until later System 7 versions and NSI 1.5. Those added a mechanism where the 'enet' resource can be put in to an extension file, which is much neater. However a lot of drivers and installers were never revised to work that way. If you...

I don't have the manual, but that card looks like a later revision of the Dayna/Kinetics/Novell EtherPort II, with coax swapped for 10base-T. Other than the differences for coax vs 10base-T, it seems to have all the same components in a similar but revised circuit board layout. That would make...

Is this one of those cards that has a big ASIC (Farallon 3170828-00-01), a ROM, and 2 SRAM chips? Loopback failing in the controller sounds like that ASIC has failed, particularly with RAM test passing and register access passing. Are you definitely running the test with the card not active for...

I have two Farallon PN590a-TN NuBus ethernet cards that only have coax and AUI connectors, and I was curious if it would be possible to add 10base-T support by populating the empty spaces on the board. While it is easy enough to pick up cheap AUI 10base-T transceivers on eBay, they often don't...

These cards are only 10Mb half duplex. If your ethernet switch has a way to turn off Auto MDI-X, that should help. If you are using MacTCP, it doesn't support DHCP. You would need to have BOOTP support on your network, or manually configure the IP address. With a Quadra 700, you might want to...