[WinMac] RE: George's Performa 476

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:36:58 -0400

        Dear George,

        I'll answer you tomorrow morning: My inbox -- And my schedule -- have both
been flooded.

        I'll be back in touch tomorrow,
        Dan

At 11:40 PM 8/19/98 -0400, George wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Thanks for the words of wisdom. Sadly, Apple seems to be too busy selling
>iMac's (sour grapes there, btw;) and modular G3's (more sour grapes) to keep
>those of us with non-PPC Macs informed. Couldn't find anywhere on their web
>site (a travesty in some ways) or in the printed 'manual' that came with 8.1
>that there is built in support for the ethernet cards in the LC PDS.
>
>Now, how do I figure out all of this hooey in my new system? It took me a
>while to figure out that I needed TCP/IP, Open Transport, and FreePPP to
>dial-up under System 7. Oh, and BTW, I think I got it setup to dial my ISP a
>few weeks ago when I installed it. But, I can't for the life of me figure
>out how to get this sucker to look out the 10Base-T cable and find my PC.
>Can you give me any insight as to what settings need to be diddled, and
>where they are?
>
>----------------------------------------
>-George Howell
>ghowell@olg.com
>georgehowell@delphi.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Schwartz [mailto:expresso@snip.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 8:51 AM
>> Subject: George's Performa 476
>>
>>
>>
>> Good morning, George!
>>
>> It was a wise move if you installed the ethernet card on
>> the Performa 476
>> (a/k/a Quadra 605, LC-IV)... This way the MacOS 8 installer automatically
>> detected it and installed the correct drivers. In fact, even since System
>> 7.1 the installer would auto-detect the card.
>>
>> I would *skip* the Asanté drivers, because they often lag
>> behind the Apple
>> drivers; and the Asanté card follows the Apple NIC API's.
>>
>> [More to follow later today.]
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Dan
>>
>> At 12:17 AM 8/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Just upgraded to OS 8.0 on my Performa 476 at home. Also
>> installed an Asante
>> >ethernet card at the same time. Would like to share the internet
>> connection
>> >on my PC (would prefer to use the PC, since it has a slightly
>> faster modem,
>> >more ram, and more processor cycles to devote to any proxy tasks). But, I
>> >can't seem to get them to talk to each other at all.
>> >
>> >Have properly installed the card in the PC and set the IP
>> address, etc (do
>> >this every day at work, so I'm pretty well versed in it) But I'm not sure
>> >how to do it on the Mac. What settings to use in which control panels...
>> >Probably should have done one thing at a time, but it's too late for that
>> >now. Anyway, using Ping on the PC doesn't turn up the Mac (am using a
>> >crossover cable). I will likely use WinProxy, since that's what we use at
>> >work. I don't need (yet) filesharing or anything else. I just
>> want to share
>> >an internet connection. Where should I start? (BTW, the information in
>> >the Asante manual, which I have read, doesn't seem to contain any
>> >information
>> >on MacOS 8.0. Also, can find nothing on their web site).
>> >
>> >BTW, first post. Been lurking since TidBITS published the mention a few
>> >months back.
>> >
>> >----------------------------------------
>> >-George Howell
>> >ghowell@olg.com
>> >georgehowell@delphi.com
>> >
>> >
>> >* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
>> >* FAQ: <http://www.darryl.com/winmacfaq/> *
>> >* Archives: <http://www.darryl.com/winmac/> *
>> >* Subscribe: <mailto:winmac-on@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
>> >* Subscribe Digest: <mailto:winmac-digest@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
>> >* Unsubscribe: <mailto:winmac-off@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
>

 -----------------------------------------------------------------

        <mailto:expresso@snip.net>

                Webmaster for <http://www.faulknerstudios.com>

 -----------------------------------------------------------------

* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *
* FAQ: <http://www.darryl.com/winmacfaq/> *
* Archives: <http://www.darryl.com/winmac/> *
* Subscribe: <mailto:winmac-on@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
* Subscribe Digest: <mailto:winmac-digest@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *
* Unsubscribe: <mailto:winmac-off@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu> *

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2 on Sun Aug 23 1998 - 08:29:05 PDT