Power Mac 5260/100 Open Transport

I can't get Open Transport to work on my Power Mac 5260/100 with 64 MB of RAM running Mac OS 9.1. I have the TCP/IP control panel set to get the IP address using DHCP using the Farallon LC PDS EtherMac NSC 10-Base T ethernet card & I checked use 802.3 framing. I have also installed the TCP/IP Options control panel & I checked all three check boxes. I also upgraded Open Transport to 2.7.6. What do I need to do to get my Mac online?

refurbished 17 iMac G5 1.8 GHz & refurbished 12 PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 512 & 768 MBs of RAM

Posted on Jul 24, 2007 6:15 PM

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Jul 25, 2007 4:39 PM in response to myaka

No. I haven't configured the AppleTalk control panel. The only thing I've ever used AppleTalk for is to print to my Personal LaserWriter NTR over LocalTalk. I managed to get Open Transport working in Mac OS 8.6 but I forget what exactly I did to get it working. It worked for a while with the Apple PDS Ethernet card driver & then it stopped working. I remember I had to install the TCP/IP Options control panel & check Disable MTU IP Path Discovery to get it working. I also had to install the latest version of Apple's Remote Access Client. Before upgrading to Mac OS 9.1 I did a clean reinstall of Mac OS 8.6 but I've kind of forgotten what exactly else I did to get online. I've never used the Farallon drivers & I'm not sure if I trust the installer either since it installs a outdated version of the EtherTalk Phase 2 extension.

Aug 2, 2007 6:08 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I'm trying to get it to connect to our network using DHCP. I managed to get it working in Mac OS 8.6 once. I'm starting to think I may need to do a custom install of Open Transport too. If I remember right 8.5.1's installer failed to install all of the necessary files when I first did a custom clean install of Mac OS 8.5.1. Unless I manage to coax it into using DHCP to get a Dynamic IP address I'm unable to get online with this Mac.

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