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    Ethernet NB Twisted-Pair Card: Supported on A/UX (8/95)
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12/21/93
8/23/95
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    I have a Macintosh IIfx with A/UX 3.0, and I just bought the Ethernet NB Twisted-Pair Card. I ran the installer for the MacPartition and the card works fine under Mac OS. A/UX however, does not recognize it. I've done newconfig bnet and newconfig appletalk, taken them both down and reconfigured them, explicitly specified "ae0" (and, just in case "as0") drivers, but to no avail.

    Is this card supported by A/UX?

DISCUSSION


    You should upgrade to A/UX version 3.1 or later for Ethernet NB Twisted-Pair Card support. The following information is from the Read Me for the Apple Workgroup Server (AWS) 95 Software Upgrade:

    Install Driver for the Apple Ethernet NB Twisted-Pair Card
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    If you are using this new interface card, install the driver on the volume named MacPartition. Installing the file on MacPartition assures that the server will use EtherTalk rather than switching to LocalTalk each time you restart the server.


    CORRECTIONS TO MANUAL PAGES
    ===========================

    A few commands are incorrect as they appear on screen in the manual pages. The corrections are as follows.

    "newconfig" manual page
    -----------------------
    If you're adding support to your system for an Ethernet card, these are the modules you need to specify in the "newconfig" command:

    ao - Built-in interface for Apple Ethernet.
    as - Apple Ethernet NB Card (a half-length card).
    ae6 - Apple EtherTalk NB Card ( a full-length card).
    ac - Apple Ethernet NB Twisted-Pair Card.

    An error appears in the last paragraph of the Descriptions section: "bnet_dr" should be "bnet".

    "NETADDRS" manual page
    -----------------------
    The value of interface_id is as follows:
    ao0 - for built-in interface for Apple Ethernet (which is found in the
    AWS 95)
    ae0 through ae5 - for Apple EtherTalk NB Cards
    as0 through as5 - for Apple Ethernet NB Cards
    ac0 through ac5 - for Apple Ethernet NB Twisted Pair Cards


    Article Change History:
    23 Aug 1995 - Updated info to A/UX 3.1 and changed back to MacPartition.
    06 May 1994 - Updated to reword "Mac Partition" to Macintosh partition.

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Product Area: Computers
Category: Cards
Sub Category: Networking Cards
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