Greenways, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Saturday, 20th July 2002 00:30 BST
Hello there,
Ross Kuehne here. I am a longtime member of the NewtonTalk mailing
list, though I usually remain in Lurk mode. Read every digest,
though.
I don't post all that often, but I recently saw the post about
hacking the Farallon driver to enable 3Com Ethernet cards to work on
a PowerBook 1400, and wondered if anyone can help me.
I recently picked up a couple of 3Com Etherlink III PC Cards
(3C589D-TP & 3C589D-Combo) on a web auction for use in my MP2100's.
However, I also have a PB1400c/166, upgraded to a G3/466, 48 Meg of
Ram, and a 5400 RPM 32 Gig HD, and would love to use these cards in
my 1400 which runs on OS 9.1.
The Rub? No 3Com drivers for Mac OS. Drat.
Or so I thought until I saw several posts on NewtonTalk. Eureka!
I'll just download the latest (2.2 & 3.0) drivers off the website,
and use Norton Disk Editor to hack the 'aral' to a 'Com ' and that'll
do the business. Effing Brilliant!
Unfortunately, having never used Norton Disk Editor (5.0) before, I
had difficulty in locating any occurrence of 'aral' after the first
one on the Farallon Extension. (Where's the bloody 'Find Next'
command??) Anyway, it wouldn't have made any difference if I'd found
it, because I subsequently discovered that NFE 5 can't edit HFS+
discs. And surprise, that's what my disk is initialized to.
Scuppered.
And then I saw a post offering to send the 1.1 driver to whomever had
asked about this.
Hence, I'd be truly grateful if Chris (or anyone else on the list)
can forward a copy of the same (or suitably modified subsequent
versions) on to me, as without this, I'm up that well-known creek at
this point.
(Alternately, I can supply the Farallon 2.2 or 3.0 drivers to anyone
on the list who has the means to modify them such that they can be
used by the 3Com cards.)
Many thanks to all, and all the best,
-Ross Kuehne
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:01:57 +0200
> Subject: [NTLK] 3C589C EtherLink III PCMCIA 2.0.
> From: Jon Glass <jonglass_at_mac.com>
>
>
> Here is a question for you ethernet gurus out there.
>
> I have a friend who has this:
> > PB1400, OS 9.1, G3/333, 60MB RAM, 3C589C EtherLink III PCMCIA 2.0.
>
> He has been unable to get this ethernet card to work with his PB 1400. He
> can't find any software for it. My questions are:
>
> 1. This is the model that works with the Newton, is it not?
> 2. Does this model of Ethernet card work with Macs? If so, how or where
> does
> one get the drivers. He has been unsuccessful in finding any.
>
> TIA.
> --
> Jon Glass
> From: Peter Cameron <pdwc_at_sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] 3C589C EtherLink III PCMCIA 2.0.
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 3:21:55 -0400
>
>
> Jon Glass <jonglass_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. This is the model that works with the Newton,
> > is it not?
> Yes, works well. You need the Farallon driver and 3comaddon, I believe.
>
> > 2. Does this model of Ethernet card work with Macs?
> There weren't drivers released for it, but apparently the Mac driver
> for the Farallon EtherWave/EtherMac card (which was the same as the 3Com
> card except for a minor ROM variation) can be modified to allow this card
> to be used. I think someone recently outlined the procedure on the list
> ... check the archives.
>
> Peter
>
> From: Peter Cameron <pdwc_at_sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] 3C589C EtherLink III PCMCIA 2.0.
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 3:28:56 -0400
>
>
> Checked the archives and found it:
>
> "You can use the card - I have done so for years.
> I downloaded the version 2.something from the Farallon site for their
> PN595 (I think that's the model for their PC Card). Then you need to
> install the driver for their card and re-boot. This doesn't yet work.
> What you need to do next is: Find the string "aral" (4 characters) in
> the driver file, which is installed in the Extensions foler. There are a
> few instances on "Farallon" in there, ignore those.
> Once you have the string, replace it with "Com " (the last character is
> a space). I used Norton Disk Editor do to that.
>
> This worked for me for any of the 3C589 and 3C589[B-D] cards."
>
>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:17:36 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] 3C589C EtherLink III PCMCIA 2.0.
> From: Chris Ruprecht <chrup_at_earthlink.net>
>
>
> Jon,
>
> I was the original poster ... if you need the drivers, send me a message
> and I'll send them to you. I don't have the 2.2 drivers any more, but
> the 1.1 drivers work just as well, I don't see any difference, no speed
> difference and such.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
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