On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 02:41 PM, Zachery Bir wrote:
> On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 02:12 , Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> Why wouldn't we be able to use EtherTalk? Like, I don't want to get a
>> Keyspan, I have an Ethernet card in my 2100 and have Ethernet with my
>> Mac, so I want to use Ethernet. That option is still available under
>> NTK, and still supported under OS X.1, right? So, why is the error now?
>> I'm not talking about AppleTalk over the Keyspan as I know that this
>> won't work. I'm talking about NTK over AppleTalk. However, it
>> seems that
>> with 10.1, there isn't a single serial port available anymore, so
>> NTK is
>> choking. I know that starting with OS X, there wasn't anymore a serial
>> port, but under 10.0.x, there must have been something looking like a
>> serial port since NTK was able to launch. Wasn't this port the modem
>> port? I don't remember clearly, but I think I've read that someone
>> explained this to work because of the modem. Now, in 10.1, it
>> seems that
>> this option has been removed, so NTK doesn't want to launch anymore. My
>> idea was to fool NTK into thinking there is still a serial port,
>> even if
>> you want to use AppleTalk.
>>
>> Does that make any sense now?
>
> Yes, that makes a lot more sense. But I don't see any options in
> NTK preferences to use Appletalk over anything but the serial
> ports. I would expect something along the lines of this:
>
> Connection:
>
> Type: Serial
> AppleTalk <- selected
>
> Port: LocalTalk
> Ethernet
>
> But I don't. Even with AppleTalk selected, I only get to specify
> Serial ports ( Printer Port USB and Modem Port USB ). If I had an
> option to use Ethernet, I would - that's how I do NCU, anyway.
Well, I can't try it right now, since I'm in OS X, but AFAIR, in the NTK
preferences, there is a popup menu for the connection that has "Serial"
or "AppleTalk". That's all what I think there is there. Or am I wrong?
-Laurent.
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