Re: Anyway to network my old mac without appletalk?
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:17:03PM -0600, George Bingham wrote:
> I have a small home ethernet that just consists of a DSL modem
> hooked to a SMC Barricade. My mac has ethernet and can see the
> barricade, but I can't figure out how to get it to see the rest of
> the internet from there. Maybe you have to buy something else from
> Apple (or any third party) to enable actual internet access via
> TCP/IP and ethernet without AppleTalk.
In order to use TCP/IP in System 7, you need the MacTCP control panel
and the libraries that come with it. However, they didn't include it
by default until later releases. I know 7.5.5 had it, and I know 7.1
didn't have it, but I'm not sure about anything in between. What do
you mean by seeing the barricade? Without knowing more about what
this machine can and cannot do currently, it's hard to help.
> I have System 7.5.3 and am currently in the process of
> downloading (by 28k modem) the update that'll take it to
> system 7.5.5, and I plan on doing the same for the Network Access
> Disk (as related in a previous post), but I am thinking that won't
> get me anywhere since I won't have an appletalk network still.
>
> Any tricks or workaround anyone know about? Or just advice on what to buy?
I really doubt buying anything will help, since you should have
everything you need. I suspect it is a configuration problem. The
main things you need are the Network and MacTCP control panels, and
to have things setup properly in them. Set both the Network and MacTCP
control panels to use Ethernet, and then in MacTCP, you'll need to
configure the IP settings, which would depend on the way the rest
of your network is setup.
> Maybe I won't need anything once I get debian on my system, then
> the linux box will see the internet right??
Linux isn't likely to need anything else in terms of hardware, although
the driver for the onboard ethernet in the AV macs wasn't entirely
reliable last I knew.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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