Re: Asante EN/SC

[Götz Hoffart <sub%hoffart.de@localhost>]

Just to add on this, not necessarily helpful:

There’s a modern replacement for the unobtainium Asante box, at least in Germany it never shows up, and if it does then for incredible prices.

The RaSCSI project added Ethernet-over-SCSI-capabilities a while ago, and it’s open source, so the "hardware" implementation of it is known. That may help in writing drivers for it.

https://github.com/akuker/RASCSI

Boards are available e.g. from Tindie and (in Germany) from Samplerspa.de. Besides these "hats" a Raspberry Pi is needed.

Regards
Götz

On 23 Nov 2022, at 17:37, Stan Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is anyone aware of any efforts to create a NetBSD Ethernet driver for
> the ASANTE EN/SC device that connects to the 25-pin SCSI port and can be
> used (in Mac OS 7) to provide Ethernet access for old PowerBooks that
> don't have built-in Ethernet?
>
> thanks for any information
>
> -Stan Johnson