From: Robert Wright (rwright730_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 10:30:13 PST
I bet NCU does not give you the option of serial because you have not
installed the keyspan drivers in classic. I have been able to get NCU to
work with serial and with a wireless connection, and also Newten via serial
in Panther.
Via serial: You can install the drivers in classic for the keyspan adaptor.
I know there are warnings all over the keyspan site not to do this but it
works for me. I have a serial port option now in the NCU preferences, a
drop down box to select which port (there are 2). That's it. Serial is
fast from the point of view that you plug it in and it is recognized
immediately, unlike appletalk which polls for a long time looking for the
network. Plug the newton in, initiate a dock connection from the newton,
and start NCU. Sometimes I have to plug and unplug the serial adaptor to
get it to wake up in classic if I have been using it in Panther, although
not lately.
Via wireless: In the card setup I have adhoc network selected, channel 11,
wep turned off. Check also 'use card for appletalk.' I enter the name the
network I have created from my computer in the airport computer-to-computer
setup, and leave the password field blank. In internet setup I have the
connection set to DHCP. Thatıs all. In system preferences I have appletalk
active in the airport section.
If I fire up the dock and choose appletalk, connect to 'other computer',
after a while my computer name appears in the chooser. With NCU running and
appletalk checked in the connection prefs I hit connect from the newton.
Sometimes and sometimes not it will connect. It seems to work better to
start the connection from the newton and then fire up NCU so that NCU sees
the presence of an appletalk network. Otherwise it issues an error 'no
appletalk network present'. So you have to go back and forth trying to
connect one with the other. Eventually it connects. I have gotten
Newtourage to work this way too.
I don't think your install of NCU is the problem imo, but you could delete
it and reinstall it.
Hth
Robert Wright
> If anyone has succeeded in backing up the Newton to Panther with NCU,
> please tell me how you do it. I need to now all the settings as I
> cannot get it to work. Before I couldn't even get Appletalk to be
> active in Classic, now i have installed a different Appletalk ADSP
> extension and it seems to work.
>
> NCU only gives me the option of Appletalk, so I cannot do backups with
> serial (using Keyspan adaptor to USB). If you know how to fix this
> please let me know, I may need to reinstall NCU?
> Robert
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