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[bmwcyclist]

So you might have seen my post in the troubleshooting section.

I received my Asante' SCSI to Ethernet adapter yesterday.

Despite receiving an indication on the box that it was connected to my network and was seeing activity, my Lisa, running Mac OS 7.1, was unable to connect to the network. The extension loaded fine; the SCSI probe detects "something" on SCSI ID 2, but the troubleshooting app crashes, and I have no connectivity.

I was really hoping to have a solution that would work with a non-XLerated LISA. I am going to test the unit on a Mac in the next couple of days to try to rule out an issue with the Asante' hardware.

If anyone has this in a working config, any tips and or a drive image would be appreciated. Thanks!

[bmwcyclist]

A few more notes:

Apple fool network page says that “early” AirPort routers will handle AARP frames correctly.

In attempt to determine specifically which AirPort routers are “early” I checked 68kMLA and could not find any list of AARP compatible routers.

In response to my query I was told ALL AirPORT routers handled AARP , but my request for a packet capture confirmation was not replied to.

So…


Today I brought a newer model AirPort from FB market place and have a saved search to try to locate an early model.

Thinking the test should be easy I then realized I am not at work and my cheap home switch likely does not have port mirroring. I am down like 5 rabbit holes on this project right now but at least I am not recompiling the Lisa os

My Lisa DB25 LocalTalk cable arrived today but oddly it has a male DIN3 so now I have to find a female to female adapter. What burns my butt is I am sure I threw away dozens of these things years ago…. And now I have to rebuy them from eBay.

[sigma7]

My Lisa DB25 LocalTalk cable arrived today but oddly it has a male DIN3

That's... weird. The bus uses the 3 pin connectors, but not the drops.

There is supposed to be a transformer between the bus and the drop to the computer, does the cable have a box in the middle of it?

edit: if you have only two devices on LocalTalk, you can wire them directly as RS-422 serial devices rather than using the LocalTalk transformer cabling.

[bmwcyclist]

Here's what I have

[sigma7]

Hmmm, dunno what that cable is; you may need to map each pin's connections as it could be anything.

By "DIN3" I thought you meant the 3 pin Mini-DIN as used by Apple for connecting individual LocalTalk boxes to one-another.

[bmwcyclist]

I learned about the cable here:

https://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hw-ser_appletalk.html

Good idea I should sound it out to make sure it's legit.