From: John Ruschmeyer (jruschme_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 22:51:14 PDT
Actually, EtherWave is a family of products distinguished by the fact
that they allow the creation of a daisy-chaned 10BaseT network. The
entire set of EtherWave products includes:
- Nubus adapter
- LC PDS adapter
- ISA card
- PCMCIA card
- AAUI tranceiver
- Mac/PB adapter
- Newton adapter
- Printer adapter
- Multi-printer adapter
The relevant ones to a Newton owner are the PCMCIA card (a rebadged 3Com
and root of all 3Com drivers), the Mac/PB adapter, and the Newton
adapter.
I've never seen a Newton adapter in the flesh, but I presume it works
like the Mac/PB adapter. If so, it plugs into an 8-pin mac/newton serial
port and provides EtherTalk connectivity in one of two modes.
In the default mode, it would act as a simple LocalTalk bridge (i.e.,
LocalTalk connections from the mac/newton would be translated to
EtherTalk). This mode requires no additional software, does not support
TCP/IP (except through Mac/IP), and is limited to the speed of LocalTalk.
In the advanced mode, a driver on the host system would put the
EtherWave adapter into a high-speed mode and provide additional
functionality expected from an Ethernet driver. For the Mac/PB adapter,
this took the form of a Classic Networking driver. I honestly can not
say, with any surity, whether such a driver existed for the Newton
adapter.
Hope this clears it up a bit.
<<<john>>>
On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 01:31 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
> To be clear these ARE NOT an ethernet card
> They are AAUI adapter for Macs that have built in Ethernet but NOT in a
> 10-base port (like the 7100)
>
> A picture of ones is here
> http://shop.store.yahoo.com/justdeals/faretauitran.html
>
> On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Peter Cameron wrote:
>
>> on 4/24/03 12:05 AM, Norman Palardy at palardyn_at_shaw.ca wrote:
>>> If you have one of these Macs you probably already do unless you
>>> specifically removed it
>> Just thought it would be a good idea to check since some ethernet
>> card
>> installers remove some of the Apple drivers.
>>
>
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