Re: [NTLK] Bootstrapping a 2100 via an eMate?

you need a bootstrap card from one of the loaner folks on your
continent. USA is Mr. Parker (I think???)

william

Douglas Johnston wrote:
> Hi folks. I'm new here, and new to Newtons, so please forgive me if
> this is a stupid question.
>
> I've just acquired a 2100 and an eMate, both brainwiped. I also have
> a MacBook Pro, a Mac serial cable, a Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter,
> and a wireless ethernet card (which is one that's supposed to work
> with the Newts). While I'm waiting for my USB-to-interconnect cable
> to arrive from Adriano, I'm trying to figure out how to get packages
> on the 2100, most notably the ethernet ones so I can set up wireless.
>
> Staring at all those pieces of hardware (and this feels vaguely like
> that scene among the engineers in Apollo 13 where they have to create
> a CO2 scrubber from random parts), it finally dawned on me that the
> eMate had a regular serial port. I used NewTen to push a file (the
> Doonesbury "book") to the eMate via the serial/Keyspan, then beamed
> it to the 2100. Success!
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with the NIE2 packages, as I
> can't beam them due to their copy protection. So I'm no closer to
> getting the 2100 online. Any ideas as to how I might move the NIE
> packages to the 2100?
>
> all my best,
> dj
>
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