I remember my father doing this when he got his 2100... we had no serial
cable. I beamed him the Farallon driver from my eMate, and then he was
able to connect to NCU to load the NIE Ethernet package over ethernet,
IIRC.
sj
On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 09:44 PM, newton2k wrote:
>
> i tried doing this with a friend of mine who needed the newton ethernet
> stuff to get working with his new ethernet card. however, i was
> completely unable to beam the 'NIE Ethernet' package. when you highlight
> it to send it, 'Beam' does not appear as an option from the routing
> menu. i even tried resetting my newton and turning all packages off
> (using the pen-pressed-on-left-edge trick) and it still didnt work.
>
> then, we tried copying the package to my card, so i could lend him my
> memory card, but when you try to refile the package, it gives a warning
> to the effect that 'you cannot copy copy-protected packages'. thats not
> the exact warning, but something similar.
>
> we were quite stumped about it since we thought that beaming would be
> the easiest way to transfer the drivers over to his newton (both newtons
> are upgraded 2000s). is there something else we shoulda tried? beaming
> the farallon driver itself worked fine, btw.
>
> cheers,
> nitin
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Mitchell Vice wrote:
>
>>
>> Have a friend beam them to you!
>>
>> ::m::
>>
>>
>>> But how do you get the required ethernet drivers onto the Newt?
>>> Serial and AppleTalk are the only methods that can be used to
>>> connect a base Newt.
>>>
>>> Peter
>
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