On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Newton Links wrote:
> Curious, I had to install NIE & drivers on my 2100 to get Ethernet between
> my Mac.
>
> Does the eMate have NIE & drivers installed by default? What happens if you
> do a brain wipe on eMate?
>
> >
> > I just want to let everyone know that the Farallon Newton EtherWave Adapter
> > works great on my G4 AGP with MacOS 9.0.4 using Newton Connection Utilities
> > 1.0 connecting to an eMate 300, it is also neat to be able to type with my
> > USB keyboard.
At the beginning of the month I posted a message that explained all of this,
but then my ISP exploded so it didn't make it into the archives, so I'm
posting it again because it answers this questions nicely I think.
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>From chuma@chuma.org Thu Aug 10 06:35:06 2000
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:09:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Victor Rehorst <chuma@chuma.org>
To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
Subject: The Definitive Ethernet Message
Alright, the Ethernet discussions of the past day or two have gotten pretty
hard-to-follow and confusing IMO - lots of different things are getting
tossed around and mixed up. I'm going to try to collect all of this jumble,
put it out for scrutiny, and then put it in the FAQ and on my page, and then
I'm going to stop answering Ethernet questions for a while 'cause frankly
I'm getting tired of answering the same thing over and over again.
I wish Paul Guyot was around right now because he could probably give a lot
more information on why some NIE 2.0 components work with 120/2.0 and 130
machines even though they're not supposed to. Anyways.
Ethernet cards can be used for two purposes: establishing an AppleTalk link
or a TCP/IP link. Appletalk is handled by routines within the 2.x ROMs.
TCP/IP is handled by Newton Internet Enabler (NIE). The two cross over in
only one way: they both require that the proper driver be installed for the
Ethernet card. Other than this, the two connections are *totally* seperate:
they share no code whatsoever.
Newtons with the "Voyager" chipset and OS 2.1 (MessagePad 2x00, eMate 300)
can use the full AppleTalk and TCP/IP functionality with an Ethernet card,
with either NIE 2.0 or NIE 1.1 (with some caveats - see below)
Newtons with OS 2.0 (MessagePad 120/2.0, MessagePad 130) can (= appear to be
able to) use an Ethernet card for AppleTalk functionality, but not for
TCP/IP.
* NIE 1.1 can be uses with an Ethernet card on an OS 2.1 devices by
providing some of the NIE 2.0 packages, in particular "Newton Devices"
Applications that use AppleTalk include the Newton Backup Utility and the
Newton Connection Utility for MacOS, and network printing functionality.
Applications that use NIE are all Internet or TCP/IP applications, including
web browsers, e-mail transports, news readers, and chat or instant messaging
clients.
Victor Rehorst - victor@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca | chuma@chuma.org
Secretary, CASU & CPES College Governments, University of Guelph, Canada
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