Comm Slot II Card
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Comm Slot II 10/100 Ethernet Card

€ 49,00

Comm Slot II Ethernet Cards using New Old Stock RTL8139 chips.  Note that a driver installation is required.  Please scroll down to the full description for installation instructions and driver link.
Tested compatible with Mac OS 7.6, 8.1, 8.6, and 9.1 on a Performa 6400/180.

Three different MAC (Media Access Control) addresses are offered. They are represented by coloured dots on a chip on the card.

If you will be networking several computers  using these cards, make sure you order cards with different colour dots to avoid conflicts on your network.

SKU: comm-slot-ii-ethernet Category: Brand:

Description

This is a Comm Slot II Ethernet Card, reverse engineered from an RTL8139 PCI card and converted into the CS II form factor.

Driver Installation
Drivers are available here: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/farallon-legacy-drivers
* Download the “CD6_NetLINE_PN993_Install.toast” file listed there, put it on a BlueSCSI, and it’ll appear as a CD which can directly install the software.
* Alternately, download “Proxim_Farallon_Page.zip” from the above Macintosh Garden page, unzip it, then extract the “993v14.sit.hqx” file and install from there.
** Notably, the Windows installs on this Proxim Farallon Page download are reporting as being potentially infected with a trojan virus, so be careful

Setup
* Install the CS II card, taking care not to break the included printed tang (it hooks into the opening first, then install into the CS II slot)
** The mounting tang is printed with conductive plastic
* Install the driver
* Reboot
* Set up the TCP/IP control panel to use Ethernet
* You may need to run the “Farallon Fast EN Config” utility (present in the installer image) to ensure the card gets a connection
* You may also need to run the “Farallon Ping” utility to make the card pick up your TCP/IP settings

Compatibility

  • Macintosh Performa 5400, 5410, 5420, 5430, 5440
  • Macintosh Performa 6360
  • Macintosh Performa 6400, 6410, 6420
  • Power Macintosh 4400
  • Power Macintosh 5400
  • Power Macintosh 5500
  • Power Macintosh 6300/160
  • Power Macintosh 6400
  • Power Macintosh 6500
  • Power Macintosh 7220
  • 20th Anniversary Macintosh
  • UMAX SuperMac C600 / Apus 3000

Shipping

We ship from Belgium to all continental European countries, and all countries of the European Union. In nearly all cases, your order will be mailed as a letter, free of custom fees.

More details can be found in the FAQ.

Benchmarking
Basic download benchmarking has been performed.  Note that there are no guarantees on transfer speed – that depends on network factors which are not under my control.
* On Power Macintosh 7300 G3 OS 9.1 via iCab, average of ~150kB per second (variable, lows in the high 80s and highs reaching 175)
* On Performa 6400/180 OS 7.6 via Netscape, average of ~100kB per second (variable, lows in the high 60s and highs reaching 120)
* On Performa 6400/180 OS 9.1 via iCab,  average of ~150kB per second (variable, lows in the high 80s and highs reaching 175)

Additional information

MAC Address

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