Re: [NTLK] Ethernet card and my eMate

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 2002 - 16:02:03 EST

On 17/01/02 14:32, "Robert Benschop" <rbenschop_at_mac.com> wrote:

> on 17-01-2002 3:27, Dave Caolo at dcaolo_at_gis.net wrote:
>
>> When I run Dock, I plug a 10-pin serial cable into my eMate and into my Mac,
>> (with the eMate on "Appletalk") hit Dock, and see the computer the previous
>> owner used to connect to. I select "Other computer," it searches but never
>> finds anything. I have the proper port selected on my Mac. Any help would
>> be great, I really want to use my ethernet card. Thanks.
>
> But why do you select AppleTalk instead of just serial, since you've got a
> serial connection there. Once you've installed the necessary packages that
> come with NIE 2.0 (NIE Ethernet Support.pkg and Newton Devices.pkg)
> and the driver for your Ethernet card you can make the connection.
> (over AppleTalk this time)

Unless he has a a recent Mac that has only USB port, he can make a serial
connection but run AppleTalk on it. The main advantage is speed. A serial
connection will not go any higher than 115,000 bps, but an AppleTalk
connection runs at 230,000 bps.

OTOH, if he has a recent Mac that lacks any serial port, then he must be
using some kind of USB-to-serial adapter. In that case, he can't use
AppleTalk because the adapter won't be able to convert the incoming packets
onto the USB interface, since there's never been such a thing as AppleTalk
over USB...

-Laurent. 

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