Ethernet card/driver for Mac IIfx & AUX 2.0

[William Roberts]

In <21926 at mvis1.com> pcaloca at synoptics.COM (Paul Caloca) writes:


>Does anyone know of a driver for a Kinetics EtherPort II that AUX will
>work with? Are there any other ethernet cards and drivers that AUX
>can recognize? The friendly Apple Technical AnswerLine folks say only
>the Apple Ethernet card will operate with AUX 2.0 and they are expensive
>and in short supply. 

The Apple Technical AnswerLine folks are being economical with the truth.
The A/UX 1.1.1 driver for the old Kinetics Etherport II card will work
with A/UX 2.0, but it won't support the EtherTalk printing. It is enough
to give you NFS and TCP however.

>I've just installed AUX 2.0 on my Mac IIfx and it crashes when AUX is
>started. Apple suggested I remove the EtherPort card and restart and
>all works fine, but I now have no access to my NFS network and TCP/IP.
>Can someone let me know where I can ftp a driver for the card or
>recommend an alternate ethernet card/driver combo that works?

You must NOT enable the Kinetics Ethernet driver under MacOS before you
boot A/UX. Apart from that advice, I know no reason why the Etherport II
card shouldn't work on your IIfx - it worked fine in a IIfx I had for 1 day
running A?UX 2.0 b10.
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