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Hello.
I'm a PC kind'a guy but I recently intercepted a Powerbook 1400cs/166 on its way to the dump. It seems to work perfectly well with OS 8 and would be a neat little machine for the kids or the wife to surf and check their emails on, except that it lacks an RJ45 ethernet plug so it can't talk to anything else in the house including the Internet router.
I do have a PCMCIA ethernet card from an equally ancient PC laptop which fits the slot on the powerbook but the machine doesn't recognise or respond to it.
The card is a generic 'Ethernet 32 bit card Bus 10/100M' with the Model Number LN8100. DriverGuide claim to have a driver for it for Windows, Mac and Linux but they want money for it!
Can anyone help with thoughts/advice, or does the poor little thing simply continue its journey to the dump and oblivion?
I'm a PC kind'a guy but I recently intercepted a Powerbook 1400cs/166 on its way to the dump. It seems to work perfectly well with OS 8 and would be a neat little machine for the kids or the wife to surf and check their emails on, except that it lacks an RJ45 ethernet plug so it can't talk to anything else in the house including the Internet router.
I do have a PCMCIA ethernet card from an equally ancient PC laptop which fits the slot on the powerbook but the machine doesn't recognise or respond to it.
The card is a generic 'Ethernet 32 bit card Bus 10/100M' with the Model Number LN8100. DriverGuide claim to have a driver for it for Windows, Mac and Linux but they want money for it!
Can anyone help with thoughts/advice, or does the poor little thing simply continue its journey to the dump and oblivion?
