[Duo2400] OS X, 2400, and Ethernet

[Matthew Mung]

Farallon FastEther TX 10/100 cardbus card work out of box with native OSX
10.1/10.2 built in driver.    However, Farallon no longer sells it.

M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Drucker" <ivanxqz at yahoo.com>
To: "Duo/2400 List" <DuoList at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: December 5, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: [Duo2400] OS X, 2400, and Ethernet


> A while ago I posted my story of getting 10.1 onto my 2400, and how I
> found a cheap CompUSA Cardbus ethernet card for which I could download
> drivers from Realtek. This is all still good, but I occasionally get
> network lockups, and I wonder how robust the Realtek drivers really are.
> (Also, maybe it's better on 10.2, which I haven't yet tried.)
>
> I know that Mac OS X includes drivers for certain DEC and Intel ethernet
> chipsets, and theoretically if you had a card based on those, no
> additional software would be necessary. Proxim (Farallon) specifically
> lists four of their cards that work with OS X out of the box, but they
> are all desktop cards. I myself tried a Linksys MPC200 Cardbus card,
> which I thought used the DEC Tulip chipset, and it didn't work with
> 10.1.5, but I didn't really consider it to be a conclusive test.
>
> So, I am wondering, has anyone used any ethernet PC Cards with Mac OS X
> on their 2400's which did not require additional drivers? I'd be
> interested to know.
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan.
>
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