on 11/14/01 2:41 AM, Steven M. Scotten at splicer_at_paroxysm.com wrote:
> I picked up a used 3c589D card for Newt today and brought it home all
> excited to get Newt on the 'Net. I still am excited to do so, actually!
>
> I read on the FAQ at Newton Cage that I would need to first install the
> Farallon driver and then the 3Com patch. So I did that with NCU and
> promptly received the message:
>
> "Error! Unable to activate Farallon Ethernet since Newton Device
> Drivers are not in the system"
>
> Hmmmmm.... so I went looking and found this other package from NIE that
> I hadn't installed, called "NIE Ethernet." It made sense that I should
> have this package installed first, so I removed the Farallon package,
> reset Newt with the reset button, and installed NIE Ethernet. Note that
> I've had Newt connecting via a modem before, so the rest of NIE is
> already installed. I then installed the Farallon Ethernet package and
> once again promptly received the error message"
>
> "Error! Unable to activate Farallon Ethernet since Newton Device
> Drivers are not in the system"
>
> Hmmm, again. This is odd. I did a Google Groups (formerly Deja) search
> and found that other people have received this message, but that the
> only advice given was to "install the device drivers" which ... is ...
> exactly ... what I thought I was doing when I got the message.
> Confusing.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm perplexed.
Like John is suggesting, make sure you have *ALL* packages from the Newton
Internet Enabler installed.
-Laurent.
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