10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 07, 2003 11:03 AM |
nmizgala |
I have been testing an AsanteFast 590 card in my PowerTower Pro 180c under OS X and I'm not having any sucess yet with it. I have the same model card in my Beige G3 under X (same drivers) and it is working fine. So, along this line, I wanted to ask what kind of sucess everybody has had with 3rd party 10/100 PCI Ethernet cards under OS X on the Old World Systems? |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 21, 2003 5:13 PM |
rvamerongen |
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Hi I have also a Realtek card, but it looks like that it stop serving and receiving after a while, specialy when i do someting with macosxserver. What I would like to create, is that the build in card connect to hub and the real tec connects to my alcatel router. Some one a idea to get it work? René |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 12, 2003 9:14 PM |
ian |
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I have two RealTek 8139 cards, and I believe both are the 8139d chipset specifically. One was "Encore" branded and one was "Hawking" branded. I bought the Encore card and got the Hawking card free with my 8-port switch from Fry's. With the newest drivers from RealTek's website, both of them work well under 10.2.3 on my 9500. I have heard of overall good results with DEC cards, as well as some really bad results with Asante cards. I cannot speak of Zynx cards, as I have not heard of them before. I do remember reading somewhere, though, that RealTek performance on Macs was iffy. I have not had that experience on my machines. All of the RealTek cards I have used have performed quite well in a light-load server environment in my bedroom. I would recommend them for both reliability and price advantages. As always, your mileage may vary. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 12, 2003 1:32 PM |
marcush |
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I got one of the Zynx ZX 345 card from weirdstuff.com yesterday. I'm going to install it tonight and test a file transfer over my network. I was doing some testing again with my Macsense card and it crapped out about 60% of the time. I wish I knew what the problem was because it's a good card otherwise. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 11, 2003 8:49 PM |
egonzales21 |
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I have been experimenting with both a Realtek 8139 based card and an Asante 696 in a 9600. The Asante is a no go no matter what slot. It seems to go along fine when surfing the net with cable modem but when I try to use it t backup my home network everything crashes. The Realtek card which came free with a hub works better. It seems the only problem is that it will not do AppleTalk. I still use Appletalk over Ethernet to print to Pro 630. Fortunately, I have a print server attached to the same printer for my windows machines which I now can use with TCP/IP from Mac. Anyone notice the same problem with Appletalk and Realtek 8139. I guess one could try to find an older card with no busmaster capability which also has 10.2 drivers. The older Asante card, 590, may fit the bill. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 11, 2003 5:25 PM |
yeh |
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I have gotten several types of Realtek 8139 (if I recall correctly) 10/100 PCI ethernet cards to work. All you have to do is install the drivers. It's been a while since I've used them though...I took them out when I re-did my 8600. If your card is Realtek based, go to their website. Do a search on google to find it. GL |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 10, 2003 1:50 PM |
willschou1 |
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"RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X February, 08, 2003 5:04 PM developer . Hmm. Maybe a PCI-busmaster problem? I know for sure that in a Umax S900 you can have only two of them. As a rule: all graphics cards, 100 MBit ethernet cards and ATA controller cards are busmaster. Maybe FireWire cards too. Try to remove a card which might be a busmaster to lower the total count of the possible busmaster. Rearraging the PCI cards to different slots may also help." It is true that in the UMAX S900/J700 you can only have 2 busmaster PCI cards. They go in the top 2 slots in the S900. This is because of the PCI bridge chip used in this machine. No Apple machine uses this arrangement so only applies to the UMAX machines. Your statement is too general . Firewire, USB, ethernet and older video cards can go in any PCI slot as they are not busmaster cards. The twin turbo and ATI rage pro 2,4 & 8mb cards come to mind as graphics cards that work in any slot. Dual use cards like combo firewire-USB cards and the Sonnet Trio card are busmaster and must go in the top 2 slots of the UMAX machine. I have the asante 590 ethernet card and it works in any slot even in my umax machine. I did need to get the correct drivers for it from asante. The Sonnet/Acard ATA /66 PCI cards are examples of ATA cards which work in any slot. Again this shouldn't be an issue with non UMAX machines best of luck |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 09, 2003 11:12 PM |
msarch |
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I have successfully used both the Asante 690, and the Macally card. Download the latest software from the support web pages. I settled on the Asante for no reason and it has been fine. It is used in a Power Tower Pro and a Power Center, both with 10.2.3. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 09, 2003 2:08 AM |
mjoecups358 |
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I have had the best luck with the DEC based 10/100 cards. Also to my shock and amazement the Intel 100 pro was plug and play, but for some strange reason would not do Appletalk... Marty |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 08, 2003 5:04 PM |
developer |
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Hmm. Maybe a PCI-busmaster problem? I know for sure that in a Umax S900 you can have only two of them. As a rule: all graphics cards, 100 MBit ethernet cards and ATA controller cards are busmaster. Maybe FireWire cards too. Try to remove a card which might be a busmaster to lower the total count of the possible busmaster. Rearraging the PCI cards to different slots may also help. You should ask the Asante support - thats the reason why you buy asante. They have told me that in my config the asante won't work (too many busmaster) in which case any other 100 MBit ethernet card won't work too (which was - unfortunally - true)... |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 07, 2003 3:52 PM |
marcush |
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I have had this problem from time-to-time too. It's not consistent. Thanks for the tip. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 07, 2003 2:37 PM |
tempest |
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I have had problems getting RealTek-based ethernet cards (D-Link) to work with my 8500. I cannot recall which, but either when sending or receiving would cause the driver to crap out and disconnect--my tests used a 600MB file. Currently I'm using a Zynx ZX345 10/100 card. This is actually the card Apple used for some of their systems in the past and I don't have to install any 3rd-party drivers for it to be recognized. I got it at weirdstuff warehouse for less than $15. |
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RE: 10/100 Ethernet Cards & OS X |
February, 07, 2003 12:51 PM |
marcush |
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I have a MacSense 10/100 ethernet card in my Power Tower Pro. It's chipset is a RealTek 1839, for which there are drivers from RealTek. |