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From: ken@slhisc.uucp (Ken Stamm)
Subject: Re: Mac II Ethernet Card Compatibility
Message-ID: <1991May14.160952.4656@slhisc.uucp>
Organization: Friends of IP
References: <11367@ncar.ucar.edu>
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Date: Tue, 14 May 91 16:09:52 GMT

In article <11367@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>Are there any Mac IIci compatibile Ethernet cards (Thick/Thin) (other than 
>3COM's and Apple's) that can make use of Apple's software without 
>requiring mods or their own drivers?
>

Yes!  I can recommend the Asante line of ethernet cards, at least their
NuBus ones.  They are totally register-level compatible with the good
ol' Ethertalk NB.  They even are shipped with Apple's network installer,
and Apple's drivers!  (There's also a rudimentary but quite useful
card diagnostic tool included, written by a 3rd party).  If you can,
get the one with the 64K buffer, it seems to have marginally better
performance than the 16K version.  Each comes in either Thick/Thin or
Thick/10BaseT. (I used Thick/Thin) (Thin, actually.)

I use them under MacOS with MacTCP and NCSA Telnet/Ftp,
and also under A/UX 2.0.  A/UX 2.0 (and 2.0.1 I presume) recognizes it as
existant with absolutely no driver mods/installs required.

Only one design drawback to the Nubus cards:  The jumper to select Thin/Thick
or Thick/10BaseT is on the card, so you have to pop the case open to switch.
But this is nitpicking.

Got mine from MacZone.

Happy netting.
-- 
Ken Stamm (uunet.uu.net!slcpi!slhisc!ken) (212)341-3868