> The ethernet card *is* the right-angle adapter. I swear. There's no
>logic on the daughtercard.
> Crud, I may have to jerk it out & take a picture.
> And I never heard of The Diskless Mac, but it sounds cool.
Interesting. I haven't seen one of those, I've always seen them as a
"IIsi & SE/30" ethernet card, and then a seperate IIsi adaptor card (with
or without an FPU).
I just pulled out my files of The Diskless Mac. It is by Sonic.
I originally found the stuff just sitting on their FTP site (so naturally
I downloaded it). I've never used it, but from what I can tell of it
works with Sonic ethernet cards, and a BootP server (they even include a
mini unix BootP server), and lets you use create a "Boot Image" that gets
stored on the ethernet card. So they have a sort of Boot RAM instead of a
Boot ROM.
Their readme does make a mention of NOT installing the "secure boot
extension" without having the TDM 2.0 Boot ROMs installed. So either the
roms are flashable, or maybe can be pulled and replaced, or possibly are
an optional part entirely (meaning that socket might very well be for the
boot rom, and not an FPU).
I tried running the TDM admin on this machine (PM 6500 with stock Apple
10b-T card), and it didn't recognize it as a valid machine to admin. It
would be interesting to see if it would recognize your card, since you
have a sonic card. (maybe once I get my PB 1400 running again, I will try
it on my Sonic PCMCIA ethernet card)
You can still download the software from their FTP site (I just checked).
Go to ftp.sonicsys.com/pub/software/Unsupported/The_Diskless_Mac. They
also have the latest version of their Ethernet drivers there (v7.8), so
maybe that has a newer version of a diagnostic tool to see if your card
is still good.
-chris
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