Victor Rehorst wrote:
> > Has anyone succeeded using this device with a MP2000 or MP2100?
> > I have no trouble using a 2.0
> > MP120 with them, and seem to be able to access my home Apple Talk
> > network wirelessly. When I try to install the driver on my MP2100,
> > however, I get a -8007 error message at installation, and the system
> > hangs and reboots if I insert the Roamer card. The system endlessly
> > reboots at startup unless I freeze the driver.
> >
> > Does anyone have a hint as to how I might have to hack the driver to
> > work on OS 2.1 rather than 2.0?
>
>
>
> You say you got your 2.0 120 working with this card? All of the NICs for
> the Newton so far have only worked with NOS 2.1 devices and NIE 2.0. Does
> this card support TCP/IP (NIE) connections as well as AppleTalk?
It appears that this only supports AppleTalk, but I haven't tried putting NIE on
the 120 to see. The Card's setup screen gives an ethernet address and the
option to use EtherTalk, but no mention of TCP/IP. It is evidently a relabled
Xircom Netwave card, but I can't find much information on the Netwave product
capabilities.
> As for getting the driver to work with your 2100... I assume you have NIE
> 2.0 installed. You might want to try installing all of the optional NIE
> packages first (Newton Devices, NIE Ethernet etc. - they should all be on
> your 2100 CD)
I will try this, but it works on the 120 without NIE at all.
> If that still fails, try downgrading to NIE 1.1, or even removing NIE
> all together. Have you tried both card slots?
Neither slot works. If I start up the 2100 with the Roamer driver frozen, and
then insert the card, the message I get is "Newton cannot recognize this type of
card." If I start the Newton with the driver frozen and then thaw the driver, I
get a -8007 error and then I am prompted to insert the card. When I do, Newton
informs me that "a communications card has been inserted," however the Roamer
does not recoginze it. If I then try to start up the Roamer driver, the system
reboots with a system error.
Brief snooping around with ViewFrame shows that the driver looks for a Netwave
card in the slot, but the actual driver code seems to be in assembler or perhaps
a compiled c function, which I cannot fathom.
It sure would be neat if I could make it work, since the Xircom Netwave cards
are not very expensive (when you can find them).
Donald T. Stewart, MD
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