I have an EtherNet card that works fine under the Macintosh OS but not under A/UX. Why?
The reason is because to access the card (which is seen as a device by A/UX), you need an A/UX device driver for it. This is not the same as the stuff you had to install under the MacOS for it to work. Now A/UX includes drivers for the Apple EtherNet card (they aren’t installed by default though), but they don’t work with most of the 3rd party cards except for the 3Com “EtherLink NB”, the Asante “MacCon” and the StarNet Networking cards. They are 100% register compatible with their Apple counterparts, so you can use Apple’s ‘ae’ driver with them. Drivers for the EtherPort II cards are available via anon-ftp on jagubox. However, the drivers for the “old” EPII cards (full length) only support TCP/IP (they were written for A/UX 1.1 but will work under 2.0.x). As far as other cards are concerned, you will have to ask the vendor for A/UX drivers for it. Please note that there have been numerous reports about problems with the EtherPortII cards, A/UX and the IIfx and IIsi… you are warned.
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