Hi John...
19-Mar-98 11:14:08, John Donohue wrote to Daniel Rinser
Subject: Ancient network adapter
DR>> I got two very old network adapters from a friend.
DR>> Unfortunately I don't have
DR>> any drivers and the Win95 drivers don't work either.
DR>> It's a
DR>> [right corner]
DR>> LANtastic 2.0Mb adapter, (c) 1989 ARTISOFT, Inc. USA
DR>> [left corner]
DR>> LANtastic V3.04
DR>> Ever heard of this bloody thing?? Where do I get the drivers?
JD> It's a proprietary 2mb per sec. ethernet adapter for Artisoft's
JD> Lantastic.
Think so, too...
JD> Microsoft networking will not support these. There is/was a Win95
ersion
JD> of
JD> Lantastic, but I don't think it supports these cards either; they're
rom
JD> several Lantastic versions back.
Great... And what shall I do now??
[...]
DR>> connect the next adapter
DR>> and so on...
JD> Yep. Daisy-chain. Like Coax.
Ok.
DR>> Is that right?? If it is, how do I solder such a cable
DR>> (which pin on the one
DR>> plug has to be connected with pin 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 on the second one)
JD> ??
JD> Might still be cable diagrams on the Artisoft web site. www.artisoft.com
Ok, thanks a lot.. I'll search for them, but what's the use, if I don't
have any working drivers? I think I gonna buy some new adapters - some
'normal' ones - they've become so cheap in the last years...
Yours,
Daniel
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