![]() I then dropped it into GraphicConverter and exported it as a MacPaint file. So I grabbed an image off Apple’s website. The first thing that popped into mind was an iPad. It works!īack on my Mac Pro, I grabbed an image as a test. Eureka! We have a connection! The share directory on my website was displayed. Once it opened, I was prompted to make a connection. I gave the machine a reboot and reopened MacTCP. MacTCP didn’t complain that my IP address was incorrect, which it had done in the past. I entered an address that wouldn’t conflict with the million other devices on my network and closed MacTCP. I was now able to set an IP address on the main window. Based on some new documentation I found, you just have to type a period for the domain name. I always called it “Home” or “local” or guessed at what I thought it should be. Nowhere did I ever see anyone mention that the name had to be a period. That might have been one of the major faults I had in the past. For DNS, I set the domain to “.” and entered the same IP address as my gateway. That’s the correct option, so I left that alone. I set the “Obtain Address” field to Manual and then filled in my gateway address. That opened the TCP/IP configuration dialog. I selected it and pressed the More button. With the Asante driver successfully installed, a new Ethernet option was now available in the MacTCP pane. Once it was back up, I launched MacTCP again from the Control Panel. Installation was a success.Īfter that, I downloaded MacTCP 2.0.6 and dropped it in my System Folder. So with Fetch in hand, I set out once again get the SE on the Internet.įirst thing, install the Asante nic driver. I guess that takes a little more work, more software, and more tweaking to get everything to play nice. A lot of the confusion I found in the past following some of the instructions online stemmed from people trying to get a browser installed. I’m not looking to browse the Internet on it, I just want to be able to move files back and forth. Since Fetch seemed to do the trick on my 5200, I figured that I’d try taking the FTP route on the SE. I recently found an SE-compatible version of Fetch. That leads me to believe that if the card is detected by the installer, then it’s not dead. I know it’s not a case of a faulty nic, because the Asante driver for my SE won’t run if a card is not installed. I was hoping now with a little more insight into classic networking that what I though was challenging on the SE a year ago, would be that much more intuitive today. It was then just a matter of installing an FTP client and I was off to the races. All I had to do was enable TCP/IP and set it to DHCP. Networking on OS 8.6 seems to just work right out of the box. ![]() Since I just got my Power Mac 5200 on the internet and file sharing via FTP with my Mac Pro, I figured I’d give my SE another shot. I’ve tried installing drivers, MacTCP, and Ethernet extensions, but nothing seems to “do anything”. There’s no shortage of documentation online and there’s a ton of posts over at to prove that more than a handful of people figured it out. ![]() Something that seemed relatively straightforward just didn’t work. I never had much luck, and needless to say, I never figured it out. Over the past few years I’ve made several attempts to connect my SE to the internet.
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