I have a Macintosh IIci, running System 7.1. My dad got me a Farallon Ethermac NuBus NSC PN590A for Christmas, and I'm having trouble getting it working. He had the foresight to pick out one that came with a driver diskette. It didn't come with a manual, so I guessed that plugging it into an available NuBis slot and installing the provided software is all that is necessary. The diskette appears to be sealed in its original shrinkwrap license envelope, and it is marked:
The software installed without error, but the card isn't being seen by it. When I run the Farallon EN Diagnostics program, it complains: "Could not find a Farallon Ethernet card or Adapter".
My Macintosh IIci had leaky electrolytic capacitors and resulting PCB corrosion. I've replaced all of the electrolytic caps, cleaned up and repaired the corrosion, and desoldered/cleaned/resoldered a couple of chips which were particularly badly hit with corrosion. Doing this got both the power control and the internal speaker audio working, and I do not see any other issues with the system so far, but I can't rule out the possibility that there's still further damage that I haven't found affecting the NuBus slots.
Being a NuBus noob, I tried installing the card in all three slots in case the slot used is important. This didn't help. The LED on the back of the card lights up when it is powered with a network cable attached to a switch, and the switch sees it as a 10Mbit/s interface.
So, do any of y'all have any suggestions before I ask my dad if the seller has a return policy? Maybe I missed some step in installing it? Maybe my Macintosh IIci still has problems? Maybe the card was bundled with the wrong software? Maybe I need to run a different system software version?
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EN Installer Disk
LC/NuBus Cards
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5000303-00-01 v 2.3
LC/NuBus Cards
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5000303-00-01 v 2.3
The software installed without error, but the card isn't being seen by it. When I run the Farallon EN Diagnostics program, it complains: "Could not find a Farallon Ethernet card or Adapter".
My Macintosh IIci had leaky electrolytic capacitors and resulting PCB corrosion. I've replaced all of the electrolytic caps, cleaned up and repaired the corrosion, and desoldered/cleaned/resoldered a couple of chips which were particularly badly hit with corrosion. Doing this got both the power control and the internal speaker audio working, and I do not see any other issues with the system so far, but I can't rule out the possibility that there's still further damage that I haven't found affecting the NuBus slots.
Being a NuBus noob, I tried installing the card in all three slots in case the slot used is important. This didn't help. The LED on the back of the card lights up when it is powered with a network cable attached to a switch, and the switch sees it as a 10Mbit/s interface.
So, do any of y'all have any suggestions before I ask my dad if the seller has a return policy? Maybe I missed some step in installing it? Maybe my Macintosh IIci still has problems? Maybe the card was bundled with the wrong software? Maybe I need to run a different system software version?
IMG_3337.jpg IMG_3339.jpg IMG_3334.jpg IMG_3340.jpg IMG_3336.jpg