Subject: Re: SONIC LC/PDS TwP Ethernet Troubles
To: Sean-Paul Rees <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: None <ayeats@ne.mediaone.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/07/1998 22:18:43
If I might interject,

eBay doesn't require a Credit Card #. It just wants your name and 
address, you send checks to the people you buy from through snail mail.

Just trying to help!

-Andrew

>Subject:     Re: SONIC LC/PDS TwP Ethernet Troubles
>Sent:        12/8/98 3:07 AM
>Received:    12/7/98 10:15 PM
>From:        Sean-Paul Rees, sean@flame.org
>To:          Bob Nestor, rnestor@metronet.com
>CC:          port-mac68k, port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>
>On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
>> Sean-Paul Rees <sean@flame.org> wrote:
>> 
>> This looks a lot like the NewerTech LC10.  Did you have to install a 
>> special Ethernet driver under MacOS to get it to work, or does it run 
>> with the standard Apple driver?  Have you tried it on a PowerMac, or just 
>> a 68k Mac?  If it's based on the NewerTech LC10 it will only work under 
>> MacOS with the special driver they provide and it will only work on a 68k 
>> Mac.  And if it's this card I suspect you'll have a long way to go to get 
>> it working under NetBSD.
>
>It worked just fine with the MacOS standard driver. It won't run in a
>PowerMac, because of the LC slot. I plugged it in, and hit the Networks
>control panel. It was quick and easy.
>
>> I'm surprised you couldn't find a less expensive card that is supported.  
>> There have been a bunch of Apple LC/PDS cards offered on eBay recently 
>> and they go for $30-$45, plus they work under NetBSD.
>> 
>
>Even with all this new enryption software and all the whatnot, I am still
>uncomfortable with the idea of transmitting my CC # out over the world.
>Call me paranoid, I guess its all the dramaticized stories that I've seen
>through the media.
>
>-Sean-Paul Rees
>
>


-------------Andrew Yeats-------------

Artaficial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity