Hey all, I have an interest in getting an Asante EN/SC adaptor (SCSI-to-Ethernet adaptor for Mac), and I suspect at least one of you (*cough* Herb *cough*) might have one I could acquire or purchase for a modest sum. Any version is fine; regular, mini or micro. Ideally I'd like a working one. If it helps, it's for the greater good: I want to reverse engineer and replicate it, as well as try and write some drivers for NetBSD, since it's one of the only reliable ways to get early PowerBooks on Ethernet. - Dave
On 10/10/2018 02:35 PM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hey all,
I have an interest in getting an Asante EN/SC adaptor (SCSI-to-Ethernet adaptor for Mac), and I suspect at least one of you (*cough* Herb *cough*) might have one I could acquire or purchase for a modest sum. Any version is fine; regular, mini or micro. Ideally I'd like a working one.
If it helps, it's for the greater good: I want to reverse engineer and replicate it, as well as try and write some drivers for NetBSD, since it's one of the only reliable ways to get early PowerBooks on Ethernet.
I don't have one of those but I do have an Asante 10BaseT Friendly net adapter. Its for the II,IIsi. LC etc. with the AAUI (Apple Attachment Unit Interface). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:35 PM David Riley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have an interest in getting an Asante EN/SC adaptor (SCSI-to-Ethernet adaptor for Mac), and I suspect at least one of you (*cough* Herb *cough*) might have one I could acquire or purchase for a modest sum. Any version is fine; regular, mini or micro. Ideally I'd like a working one.
If Herb doesn't, I probably do. I assume they are working but I don't have a quick way to test them. I do have a working PowerBook 145 that might be the best target. Remind me - need OS 7.0? OS 7.5? Will 6.0.8 work? I'd need to find a way to get driver images onto the machine. I do not currently have anything set up with an 800K drive and a net connection, and the floppy drive might be dead on this Mac anyway. I _might_ have Mac Kermit on it. Fastest way to load software is probably (external) CD-ROM.
If it helps, it's for the greater good: I want to reverse engineer and replicate it, as well as try and write some drivers for NetBSD, since it's one of the only reliable ways to get early PowerBooks on Ethernet.
Nice. I held onto these back in the day with the thought that they might be usable on an Amiga. If there is a live NetBSD driver, I don't think it would be hard to port the lower layers back to AmigaDOS and write a SANA2 driver (for me, no obligation on you). I won't get home for a few days so it may take me a little bit to check my box of Mac network cables/dongles (Ethernet, LocalTalk, PhoneNet...) As long as I have at least 2 of a thing, I'm pretty good with selling one off. -ethan
I've also got some (I believe two) of these lying around, as well as some SCSI development gear which Dave is definitely welcome to use. David
On Oct 10, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:35 PM David Riley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I have an interest in getting an Asante EN/SC adaptor (SCSI-to-Ethernet adaptor for Mac), and I suspect at least one of you (*cough* Herb *cough*) might have one I could acquire or purchase for a modest sum. Any version is fine; regular, mini or micro. Ideally I'd like a working one.
If Herb doesn't, I probably do. I assume they are working but I don't have a quick way to test them. I do have a working PowerBook 145 that might be the best target. Remind me - need OS 7.0? OS 7.5? Will 6.0.8 work? I'd need to find a way to get driver images onto the machine. I do not currently have anything set up with an 800K drive and a net connection, and the floppy drive might be dead on this Mac anyway. I _might_ have Mac Kermit on it. Fastest way to load software is probably (external) CD-ROM.
If it helps, it's for the greater good: I want to reverse engineer and replicate it, as well as try and write some drivers for NetBSD, since it's one of the only reliable ways to get early PowerBooks on Ethernet.
Nice. I held onto these back in the day with the thought that they might be usable on an Amiga. If there is a live NetBSD driver, I don't think it would be hard to port the lower layers back to AmigaDOS and write a SANA2 driver (for me, no obligation on you).
I won't get home for a few days so it may take me a little bit to check my box of Mac network cables/dongles (Ethernet, LocalTalk, PhoneNet...) As long as I have at least 2 of a thing, I'm pretty good with selling one off.
-ethan
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