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

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

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.
>
>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?
>

Brad, as Phil suggested, try to get Open Transport version 1.1.1 or 1.1.2
onto your LC MacOS 7.5.x.  Try to configure for DHCP but don't hesitate to
set up static IP (Manual config in the TCP control panel).  After that is
successful, I suggest installing Localtalk Bridge (free dnload for Apple
unsupported software).  Then setting a appletalk connection between your
LC and IIGS.  download software (Fetch FTP) on the LC and immediately
access the files by Appleshare on the IIGS.  The LC will make a great
peripheral device for the IIGS.

Good luck!

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)