[DM-MUG] Dust off your Classic OS problems solving skills, Thanks!

[Douglas]

Hi Matthew,

That's a definite possibility although I've found one mention of  
Softwindows being compatible with "Mac clones". Doesn't say which  
ones, however. Adding a PCI ethernet card will let me see if the  
support for a more mainstream card is better.

Any thoughts about the other side of the equation, the Open Transport  
version? The Softwindows manual says that OT 1.11 is supported so I  
may downgrade to that and see what happens.

Having both the hardware (Umax/Supermac) and software (Insignia->FWB)  
vendors out of business makes this more fun than usual...

Thanks, Doug


On Mar 26, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Matt W wrote:

> Wow! A Cretaceous Classic Compatibility Conundrum! I never used  
> SoftWindows so my expertise doesn't even live close, but I think  
> the driver error is right on. It is a possibility that SoftWindows  
> 95 doesn't know how to speak to the hardware that UMAX used in  
> their boxes. SW should be emulating some generic PC ethernet  
> driver, and it should be sharing the same info used by the Mac, but  
> it may not be working with the UMAX hardware. You might get mileage  
> from talking to a Windows geek about this, or maybe not.
>
> Matthew
>
> On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Douglas wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Trying to get Softwindows 95 to see the ethernet network that my  
>> venerable S900 is connected to but without success. Any ideas  
>> would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> The system - a Umax/Supermac S900 using the standard Umax/Apollo I/ 
>> O card for ethernet. Running system 8.6 (Open Transport version  
>> 2.03) with a 500Mhz G3 card, 18gigs of Ultra-2 SCSI disk, and  
>> 848megs of built-in memory. The system is very stable and "sees"  
>> the network just fine (local boxes and the internet) from the Mac OS.
>>
>> The application - Softwindows version 5.05 installed on a 500meg  
>> C: partition with 128megs of memory. The application itself runs  
>> fine but even after setting up network connectivity following the  
>> instructions in the Softwindows manual I get an error in the  
>> "System" control panel, "Device Manager" tab, "Network Adapter"  
>> device, "Insignia Solutions Ethernet Driver" driver. The error  
>> reads -  "Device failure: Try changing the driver for this device.  
>> If that doesn't work see your hardware documentation. (Code 2)"
>>
>> Many net searches later I've found a few relevant sources of  
>> information but nothing that solves the problem.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas, Doug
>
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