I am currently working on getting an old Macintosh LC II with an Asante MCiLC ethernet card (part no. 09-00062-03 A1) onto the wonders of the world wide web. I have made it as far as installing System 7.5.5 and Open Transport 1.1.2, as well as the original Asante network driver which I tracked down on their legacy site. However, I now have a few problems:
Setting Open Transport to "Dynamic DHCP" and giving it the router's IP address does not allow it to get an IP address successfully. Instead, every time it seems the system goes to access the networking service, it freezes for exactly 2 minutes. This doesn't occur when I have Open Transport disabled, so I'm pretty sure it's one of the networking extensions that's to blame.
Even when the system is unfrozen however, I have used a couple of different networking tools to confirm that I'm not getting an IP address. Instead, I'm getting a bunch of random numbers for the various networking values, as if the card is malfunctioning somehow.
I have noticed that a couple of the caps around the expansion port are showing some corrosion. Thankfully I have another LC II that won't boot but whose caps look to be in good shape. I want to see if there is perhaps a software solution though before I start doing soldering iron surgery on this guy.
Any suggestions?
Setting Open Transport to "Dynamic DHCP" and giving it the router's IP address does not allow it to get an IP address successfully. Instead, every time it seems the system goes to access the networking service, it freezes for exactly 2 minutes. This doesn't occur when I have Open Transport disabled, so I'm pretty sure it's one of the networking extensions that's to blame.
Even when the system is unfrozen however, I have used a couple of different networking tools to confirm that I'm not getting an IP address. Instead, I'm getting a bunch of random numbers for the various networking values, as if the card is malfunctioning somehow.
I have noticed that a couple of the caps around the expansion port are showing some corrosion. Thankfully I have another LC II that won't boot but whose caps look to be in good shape. I want to see if there is perhaps a software solution though before I start doing soldering iron surgery on this guy.
Any suggestions?