Re: NTLK Connecting the Newton to Internet thru a Mac

From: Robert Benschop (robertbenschop@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 09:51:23 CDT


on 13-06-2000 1:53, Michael J. Hussmann at michael.hu@macmagazin.de wrote:

>> NIE isn't involved, but the ethernet drivers and possibly the Newton
>> Devices extension are. Remember that you don't need NIE 2.0 to do
>> ethernet: you do require a 2.1 device and the appropriate driver, Newton
>> Devices and NIE Ethernet.
>
> Victor,
> given that "Newton Devices.pkg" and "NIE Ethernet Support.pkg" are part
> of the NIE 2.0 extensions, I would hesitate to say that "NIE isn't involved".

Guess that there should have been a ";-)" behind that, of course NIE 2.0 is
involved if you're using it's additional packages, but to avoid all
confusion, Victor is right, if you're using ethernet but no modem, you only
need the two extra packages and not NIE itself.

Robert Benschop

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