BlueSCSI v2 - DaynaPORT WiFi!

[eric]

The state of Macintosh System 6 and DaynaPORT is great - it's what it was originally intended for and developed on. I'm not familiar with your version numbers 1.2.2/1.2.5 - the DaynaPORT installer is labeled 7.5.3 https://bluescsi.com/docs/WiFi-DaynaPORT#software-configuration

 

[PL212]

Ah, that's great to hear -- 1.2.2 and 1.2.5 are the versions of the specific SCSI/Link driver from 7.5.3 and 7.7.2 Asanté installers, respectively:

I suppose it's possible that there's something odd on my LC motherboard that's causing the boot crashing when the SCSI/Link is chosen -- again, the BlueSCSI networking just fine *until* a reboot; after which the crash shows up early in the Welcome to Macintosh screen. Clearing PRAM (or booting from a floppy without the SCSI/Link driver, which triggers a "previous network interface unavailable; resetting to LocalTalk" message) causes a clean boot with no other changes -- but obviously no networking either.

 

[pwikel]

I'm not techy in the least. I'd just like to know why every emulator I've used won't import files, and because of this, makes it impossible to transfer files from either my modern macbook pro or my macintosh classic 2.
Please give me the layman/egghead response. I don't know coding. I just want to transfer files between my macintosh classic 2 and my macbook pro.

 

[pwikel]

I'm not sure why it's not "regular guy" user friendly.

 

[JDW]

I'm not techy in the least. I'd just like to know why every emulator I've used won't import files, and because of this, makes it impossible to transfer files from either my modern macbook pro or my macintosh classic 2.
Please give me the layman/egghead response. I don't know coding. I just want to transfer files between my macintosh classic 2 and my macbook pro.

The title of this thread is “BlueSCSI v2 - DaynaPORT WiFi!” If by “emulator” you mean Mini vMac or Basilisk II, please consider staring a new thread.

Daynaport WIFI does include topics like transferring files, but it seems you want help with a specific emulator, which isn’t something directly tied to BlueSCSI and WIFI, hence my recommendation for you to start a new thread.

I never like to send people in need empty handed though, so if you want a detailed walkthrough and a curated disk image that made specifically to help people like yourself, check out my latest video here. Even though that video is targeting ROM-inator users, my Mini vMac tutorial and disk image (linked in the video description) should get you up to speed fast. If you need further help, please start a new thread. And when you do that, feel free to tag me so I don’t miss it.

Thanks!

 

[naruse]

As described in my earlier post, I was successful in getting BSv2 WIFI to work properly with Open Transport running under System 7.1 and higher.

Today, I shall describe my experience getting BSv2 WIFI to work under System 6.0.8 running on a Macintosh Portable which has a 16MHz 68000 processor:

1. I opened the WiFi DaynaPORT page here. You should too as you follow my guide.
   
   
2. The Macintosh Portable requires Mac Plus code to be in the .ini file, so I added the required WIFI code under that, exactly as follows (and saved to my SD card):
   [SCSI]
   System=MacPlus
   WiFiSSID=MyWiFi
   WiFiPassword=pass123
   # Optional - Each Pico-W will generate its own MAC address, so normally not needed.
   # WiFiMACAddress=00:80:19:C0:FF:EE
   
   
3. I then created a new text file using BBEDIT with Macintosh encoding named (nothing conflicts with SCSI ID 4): NE4.hda
   
   
4. I then downloaded this HDA file to my SD card.
   
   
5. I booted my Portable into System 6.0.8 (with 8MB total RAM) and then opened the drive named "BlueSCSI PicoW" and dragged MacTCP (v2.1) from there to my System Folder.
   
   
6. The instructions then say to: "Install the DaynaPORT 7.5.3 drivers via the provided disk image". That's where trouble began. The instructions go on to say: "use the `MountImage 11b3` cdev (included on the image) to allow the image to be mounted" , but in fact, that was not true in my case. Double-clicking MountImage 11b3 resulted in an error dialog saying the application required cannot be found! Thankfully, I already had MountImage 1.2b2 installed as a Control Panel. Note that when you use it, however, you must checkmark "allow changes to the disk image" or you'll get an error.
   
   
7. With the DaynaPort disk image mounted, I then double-clicked "Installer". Despite what the instructions say though, I cannot do an Easy Install because the "Install" button is dimmed, and it says: "Please install your DayaPORT hardware, or make sure the hardware is installed correctly." Thankfully, you can click the "Customize" button and then click on "DaynaPORT SCSI/Link" (which the instructions tell you to do). I already had AppleTalk 58.0 installed, so I didn't select that. I clicked the "Install" button and I saw it building "System file" which indicated the items were installed inside that file rather than in the System Folder, because I later couldn't find any "Dayna" named files in the System Folder. It then required me to Restart after the install.
   
   
8. The instructions then say to open MacTCP, which I did. I chose "Ethernet Built-In".
   
   
9. Now came the part that was rather confusing because the instructions are incomplete. It indicates you should confirm your Router IP, which I did on my modern Mac by opening System Preferences > Network > Ethernet. It shows my Router to be 192.168.0.1, with DNS set to 8.8.8.8, and Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0. Now here's where the instructions are lacking. It shows you this pic:
   
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   Fine and well, but it needs to tell the user to do this: "Click into the IP Address field and type a number that matches the leftmost 3 segments of your Router, then type an unused number at right." In other words, in my case: 192.168.0.xxx, where xxx is for me to decide. I chose 73 because that was suggested and not used on my network. In other words: 192.167.0.73
   
   But yet another failure of the instructions is that they don't specifically say to click the "More..." button, but you need to do that next. I did that and then clicked the "Manually" radio button. The instructions don't specifically say that. You must assume it based on the following pic:
   
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   So after clicking the "Manually" radio button at left in the above, I proceeded to fill out the Routing Information section with my ROUTER info: 255.255.255.0 & 192.168.0.1.
   
   After that, I didn't know what to do in the Domain Name Server Information section because the instructions make zero mention of what I ought to type into the Domain field. Must I type "local" to match the screenshot? Maybe not because the screenshot is showing an IP of 192.168.1.150 which the text instructions make no mention about! So what I did was type "Google" into the Domain field, and then I typed 8.8.8.8 into the IP Address field, and then I clicked the Default radio button, and lastly, I clicked OK.
   
   The instructions say I will be asked to Restart, but I wasn't. So I restarted manually.
   
   
10. The instructions said to open MacTCP after Restarting and check that Built-in Ethernet was still selected, and I found it was, so I closed my Control Panels. But the instructions seem to be in error, because it says "proceed to Step 5," which cannot be right.
    
    
11. I then proceeded to the next instruction which is oddly marked "1." and says: "Now open 'MacTCP Ping' and try to ping 1.1.1.1." I did that. Success!
    
    
12. Because web browsers won't run under System 6, the best we can do is run Fetch (sorry, Panic's Transit or Transmit won't run under System 6 either). I used the following as a test, which worked perfectly:
    repo1.macintoshgarden.org
    user: macgarden
    psw: publicdl
    Directory (leave blank)

And there you have it. I hope the above is helpful to those who haven't yet been able to get BSv2 WIFI to work under System 6!

UPDATE: I left my Mac Portable as I typed the above, which took me more than the 2 minute sleep timer. I went back and found it asleep. I pressed a key which work the machine, showing Fetch still logged into Macintosh Garden. But it was frozen. Moving the trackball did not move the arrow pointer, and even pressing Interrupt did nothing. Pressing Restart worked, however. At the desktop, I took note that the ACT LED on BSv2 was not flashing (which is normal, I think, because I didn't yet open Fetch. I put the machine to Sleep. I then woke the machine. No freeze. I then launched Fetch which causes the ACT LED on BSv2 to start flashing. I then quit Fetch, but the ACT LED keeps flashing. At the desktop, I put the machine to sleep. Upon wake, it froze. So the flashing LED seems to trigger the freeze on wake from Sleep.

@JDW you cannot imagine how helpful this post has been for me!

For the past few days I have been struggling to get BlueSCSI dynaport working with MacTCP on system 6.0.8 on my Mac SE and I have done the same exact process several times but I discovered that if I install the appletalk v58 drivers then when I go ahead and try to use "MacTCP Ping" it kept telling me that the drivers couldnt be located.

Anyways long story short. In my case (and if people is struggling getting dynaport working with bluescsi on 6.0.8) DO NOT install the v58 apple talk drivers, JUST install the SCSI/Link drivers and that should work!

Also, as a side note; this is a fresh install of System 6.0.8 from the legacy recovery CD and if I installed (again on my Mac SE) the v58 apple talk with Dynaport, I would get a crash error every time; to avoid this. it forced me to not only install the Appletalk v58, SCSI/Link drivers but also the SCSI SE one.

Regardless, in my Case Just installing the SCSI/Link (and NO appletalk v58) drivers get me going on 6.0.8