Re: My IIgs peripheral (LC III) & cable modem

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <3D22FAFD.9060501@shaw.ca>, Brad Korponay <brad_k@shaw.ca>
wrote:

> Over the last couple of years, I've been upgrading my LC III with a 
> network card, 68882, RAM etc, for some day I hope to install Linux on it 
> (just for fun). Now that I have the IIgs, I'm using the LC III for disk 
> creation more than anything else. Since yesterday (I'm getting obsessed 
> about this), I upgraded the LC III to System 7.5.5 and have since tried 
> to get it working with my cable modem. On the PC, one doesn't have to do 
> any configuration at all to get it working, yet no matter how I 
> configure MacTCP, Network Control Panels, I can't seem to get the LC III 
> going. My only useful app on it right now is Fetch 4.02. If I can find a 
> copy of Netscape in 1.44mb pieces, I'll download that as well.

Your cable modem kit probably assumes that your PC and Mac clients use
DHCP to resolve their IP configuration. MacTCP does not support DHCP.
Either configure MacTCP with a static IP address AND configure your
cable modem setup to reserve that IP address for the LCIII. Or install
Open Transport 1.1.1 (and possibly update 1.1.1 to 1.1.2) and persevere
with DHCP (you may need to manually configure the DNS server addresses
in OT).
 
> I don't mean to turn this into a Mac support group, but can anyone point 
> me in the right direction for configuring 7.5.5 with my cable modem?

We'll let you off this time... An internet and AppleTalk networked Mac
is a very useful tool for the IIgs.

Phil