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Powerbook G4 15" 1.33 [5,4]

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Jon:
Has anybody figured out how to get the network working on this notebook in 9.22? I booted into OSX and ran the system profiler, and it shows that the network adapter is a Marvell 88E1111, and I found this document about the adapter:

https://www.marvell.com/content/dam/marvell/en/public-collateral/transceivers/marvell-phys-transceivers-alaska-88e1111-datasheet.pdf

But so far I haven't come across any drivers for OS9. Just wondering if this is a futile effort or if there's something that I've missed. From what I've read there's zero support for the AirPort Extreme card in it, so I am just trying to figure out how to get it on the wire.

Jon:
Answering my own question; after doing some digging about, it seems like it really doesn't like the fast part of FastEthernet... Even though it recognized that there was a link, it was unable to get DHCP information from my server and the network port it was connected to autodetected a Gigabit connection. Logging into the switch and configuring the port to be 10M/Half Duplex allowed the Powerbook to both get a DHCP address and connect to the internet. Hopefully this information will help others - if you don't happen to have a high end network switch that allows you to configure individual ports, maybe a good ol' fashioned 10Mbit hub will do the trick, but I don't have any of those to test.

DrNo7:
That is an interesting information... :)

Are you able to test the other combination s(10M/full, 100M/half and 100M/full) to help understand if it is only the auto négociation or some speeds that the OS 9 driver cannot deal with?

Jon:
Okay, I went through and set it to a bunch of different speeds. The OS9 side of things always connected at 10m/half, but I can set the port to 10/(half/full/auto) or 100(half/full/auto) and it seems to still be able to communicate, but if I set it to 1000/(half/full/auto) or Auto/(half/full/auto) it stops communicating.

DrNo7:
Thank you very much Jon for the additional results.
It helps greatly with the choice of network hardware to use (switches or hubs up to 100M) and which ones to avoid (1000M and above) :)

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