Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto ASANTE MacCon Family Ethernet Network Cards for the Macintosh del fabbricante Asante Technologies
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MacCon Family E thernet Network Cards for the Macintosh Installation Guide ASANTÉ MacConi Front Cover Page 1 Friday, August 23, 1996 10:16 AM.
Asanté MacCon Adapter Family Installation Guide Asanté T echnologies, Inc. 821 Fox Lane San Jose, CA 95131 October 1994 Part Number 06-00141-00 Rev .
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i Table of Contents Asking for assistance i Technical support hours i Tell us what you think i Introducing the Asanté MacCon Cards 1-1 Summary of MacCon Card Features 1-2 The Math Co-processor Option.
ii Accessing Asanté MacAgent MIB 3-2 Asanté SNMP MacAgent and the TCP/IP Protocol 3-2 Asanté SNMP MacAgent as a Network Diagnostic Tool 3-3 Installing SNMP MacAgent 3-3 Configuring MacTCP 3-4 Confi.
iii List of Figures Figure 2-1 Selecting AUI, MacCon NuBus card 2-3 Figure 2-2 Disabling Link Integrity, MacCon-i NuBus card 2-4 Figure 2-3 Installing a MacCon 3 NuBus card 2-5 Figure 2-4 Installing M.
Chapter 2 1-1 Chapter 1 Intr oducing the Asanté MacCon Car ds Thank you f or purchasing a MacCon networ k interface card from Asanté T echnologies. Asanté’ s MacCon cards enable you to connect any Macintosh with an av ailable e xpansion slot to a high speed Ether- net networ k.
1-2 Introducing the Asanté MacCon Cards The term MacCon car ds is used in this manual to ref er to all cards in the MacCon Famil y . When text applies only to a specific car d, it is identified by its name.
Chapter 2 2-1 Chapter 2 Installing Asanté MacCon Car ds This chapter pro vides step-by-step instructions for installing Asanté MacCon Ethernet network interf ace cards and EtherT alk software.
2-2 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards ❏ The appropriate Asanté card and Ethernet hardware f or your cabling: Refer to Appendix B for detailed Ethernet specifications. Observing the Safety Rules Do not remov e the network interface car d from its anti-static bag until you are r eady to insert it into the expansion slot.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-3 ❏ Ground yourself by using an anti-static wrist strap. Attac h it to the chassis once y ou have opened the Macintosh, but before handling the Asanté card or touching an y component inside the system. ❏ Handle the Asanté card by the edges and av oid touching the connectors and chips.
2-4 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards MacCon-i NuBus Card ∆ Note: If you wish to disable link integ r ity , use the JP1 jumper on the MacCon NuBus card, as shown in Figur e 2- 2. (For e xample, hubs made befor e the 10BaseT specifica- tions were pub lished do not suppor t link integrity .
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-5 Figure 2-3 Installing a MacCon 3 NuBus card — Gentl y press on the card until the connector is full y seat- ed and the card is flush with the card holders at both ends.
2-6 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Figure 2-4 Installing MacCon NuBus card, Apple Centris 610 Installing the MacCon 610 Card If you hav e a Macintosh Centr is 610, you can use a MacCon 610 card to connect to the Ethernet. Each card consists of tw o par ts: ❏ The larger controller card, which plugs into the e xpansion slot in the Macintosh.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-7 ∆ Note: In some cases with Thick Ethernet (10Base5) ca bling when your netw ork does not hav e 10Base5-compliant Ether net transceivers, you ma y need to for ce the NuBus card to select the A UI port by setting the JP1 jumper ON as shown in Figure 2-5.
2-8 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 3 P ower do wn the Macintosh. Disconnect and remove the power cable. 4 Open the Macintosh and remov e the access por t cover . 5 Make sure you ar e grounded: check that y our anti-static wrist strap is properly attac hed to your wrist and to the Macintosh chassis.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-9 Installing a MacCon LC Card If you hav e a Macintosh LC, LCII, or Color Classic computer , use the MacCon LCIII or MacCon-i LC card to connect the Macintosh to the Ethernet. Caution Only the LC and LCII computers can accept FPUs on the LC card.
2-10 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards With the car d’ s components facing down, carefully angle its e xternal connector through the Ethernet por t, then line up its edge connector with the motherboar d expansion slot. 5 Gently pr ess on the car d until the connector is fully seated (see Figure 2-9).
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-11 2 Remove the r ear access panel case (see Figure 2-10). Figure 2-10 The rear panel remov ed on the Color Classic 3 Make sure you ar e grounded: check that y our anti-static wrist strap is properly attac hed to your wrist and to the Macintosh chassis.
2-12 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards With the connectors facing down, carefully angle its e xter nal con- nector through the Ethernet por t (see Figur e 2-11). Figure 2-11 Installing the MacCon LC in the e xpansion slot in the Color Classic 6 Plug the card’ s edg e connector into the e xpansion slot on the motherboard.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-13 Installing the MacCon3 IIsi and MacCon 30i Cards If you hav e a Macintosh IIsi or a Macintosh SE/30, use a MacCon3 IIsi or a MacCon+ 30i to connect to the Ethernet.
2-14 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Video Options Even though the Macintosh IIsi has onl y one expansion slot, you can install both a MacCon3 IIsi card and the Radius video card. An exter- nal interface device is not needed and high perf or mance is main- tained.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-15 Installing the Math Co-processor If your Macintosh, or the Radius card, already has a math co-proces- sor , do not install the Asanté math co-processor option.
2-16 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Installing in a Macintosh IIsi T o install the MacCon+ 30 or a MacCon3 IIsi in a Macintosh IIsi, per- form the f ollowing steps: Caution Be very careful when you open the case and wor k inside the Mac- intosh IIsi.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-17 Figure 2-13 Removing the MacCon3 IIsi daughter card Figure 2-14 Installing a MacCon3 IIsi card with a Radius card MacCon3 IIsi daughter card AUI part removed force.
2-18 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Installing a MacCon3 IIsi and a Radius Pivot IIsi T o install a MacCon3 IIsi card and a Radius Pivot IIsi card, perform the first three steps on page 2-17, then perform the steps below . Caution Handle the Asanté cards and the video cards carefull y so the y remain plugged tog ether .
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-19 Figure 2-15 Installing a MacCon+ 30i card in a Macintosh SE/30 Installing a MacCon Card in a Macintosh SE/30 Caution Be very careful when you open the case and wor k inside the Mac- intosh SE/30.
2-20 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 3 Make sure you ar e grounded: check that y our anti-static wrist strap is properly attac hed to your wrist and to the Macintosh chassis. 4 Disconnect the speaker , power suppl y , flopp y drive, and hard drive cables (see F igure 2-15 on page 2-19).
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-21 Installing a MacCon+ SE Card in a Macintosh SE The MacCon+ SE networ k interface car d allows you to connect a Macintosh SE to an Ethernet network. The card consists of two parts. ❏ The larger controller car d, which plugs into the e xpansion slot in the Macintosh.
2-22 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards T o install the MacCon+ SE card in the Macintosh SE, perform the fol- lowing steps: Figure 2-16 Installing the MacCon SE daughter controller card and daughter card Caution Be very careful opening and working inside the Macintosh SE.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-23 5 T ake out the motherboard: — Lift the gr ounding shield (padded aluminum sheet) cov- ering the motherboard. — Disconnect the pow er supply cable and the drive cables on the component side of the motherboard.
2-24 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 9 Place the motherboard (with the MacCon+ controller car d riding pigg yback on it) back into the guides on the left side of the chassis. 10 Reconnect the power suppl y and the disk drive cable on the component side of the motherboard.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-25 1 Connect the “T” connector to the BNC port on the card. The connector slips on, twists, and locks in place. 2 If the Macintosh is the last node, ter minate one end of the “T” connector using a 50-ohm BNC ter minator (for thin ca- ble).
2-26 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards The follo wing table e xplains which installation to choose: About EtherT alk Phase 1 and Phase 2 EtherT alk Phase1 is limited to 255 devices and allows only one zone. EtherT alk Phase 2 has vir tually no limit (maximum—ov er 16 million devices) and allows multiple zones.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-27 2 Insert the Asanté EtherT alk Installer Disk. 3 Double-clic k the Installer icon and click OK when the In- staller banner appears. The Easy Install dialog box appear s (see Figure 2-17). ∆ Note: T o properly install the EtherT alk Installer pr o- gram, you must double-clic k the Installer icon.
2-28 Installing Asanté MacCon Cards Accessing Network Services T o make the connection between your Macintosh and the Ethernet networ k wor k, you need the f ollowing: ❏ AppleT alk must be active i.
Installing Asanté MacCon Cards 2-29 Y our connection to Ethernet remains active until you switc h to LocalT alk, disconnect the cable, or remove the Asanté interface card.
Chapter 2 3-1 Chapter 3 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Introduction Asanté SNMP MacAgent pr ovides har dwar e and softwar e inf ormation from a Macintosh to an Asanté network management station running AsantéVie w . It works in conjunction with Apple’ s MacTCP software.
3-2 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Requirements The requirements f or Asanté SNMP Agent are AsantéView In-Band Network Management Software AsantéVie w is powerful networ k management softwar e used to man- age Asanté intelligent Ethernet hubs and br idg es.
Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-3 SNMP MacAgent f orwards f our types of information a bout the station: ❏ Station Profile, including station hardwar e components, sys- tem and memor y ❏ Station Slot T a.
3-4 Asanté SNMP MacAgent 4 Click Customize . The Customize Install dialog bo x appears, shown in Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Customize Install dialog box 5 Select the SNMP MacAgent f or the appropr iate operat- ing system. 6 Select MacTCP for the appropriate operating system.
Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-5 2 Double-clic k the MacTCP icon. The MacTCP Configura- tion screen appears, shown in Figure 3-2. Figure 3-2 MacTCP Configuration screen ❖ Note: T o configure MacTCP , see the MacTCP Adminis- trator’ s Guide. This guide is included with the Asanté- Vie w documentation.
3-6 Asanté SNMP MacAgent 2 Double-clic k the SNMP MacAgent control panel. The SNMP MacAgent Configur ation screen appear s, shown in Figure 3-3. Figure 3-3 Asanté SNMP MacAgent Configur ation screen 3 Enter the configuration parameters (see the ne xt section for par ameter descriptions).
Asanté SNMP MacAgent 3-7 ∆ Note: The defaults f or Read-community and Wr ite-commu- nity should be used unless you are told otherwise by y our networ k administrator . T rap-community Enter public. (T rap is the SNMP term for alarm or alert.) Public is usually the def ault f or the SNMP configuration.
3-8 Asanté SNMP MacAgent A Macintosh icon display ed on the map with an “ A ” indicates the Asanté SNMP MacAgent is installed. If a Macintosh has Asanté’ s SNMP MacAgent installed, the Asant.
Chapter 2 4-1 Chapter 4 Using T r oubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Softwar e The T roubleShooter and Asanté Dr iver Local Statistic (ADLS) prog rams are included with the EtherT alk drivers on the Asanté EtherT alk Installer diskette.
4-2 Running T roubleShooter Diagnostics 4 Restart the Macintosh. Starting T r oubleShooter Diagnostics 1 Insert the EtherT alk Installer diskette and open the dis- kette’ s director y window . 2 Copy the T roubleShooter software to the desktop or a folder , such as the Net Utils folder .
Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-3 • Memor y Buffer T est Writes to and reads from the packet buffer RAM to v er- ify its addressability and operation. • Networ k Interface Controller T est Writes to and reads from the controller register to v er- ify its operation.
4-4 Running other T roubleShooter tests Running the Loopback test The Loopback test v erifies the operation of the major components of the interface cir cuitr y and the ca ble run to the hub by transmitting and receiving special packets. ❖ Note: The Macintosh with the MacCon adapter installed must be connected to a hub to run the Loopback test.
Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-5 The performance statistics are displa yed in the T rouble- Shooter dialog box. Figure 4-3 Bandwidth Utilization T est window What the Bandwidth Utilization test displays The Bandwidth Utilization test takes a “snap shot” of the network.
4-6 Running other T roubleShooter tests • CRC Error Indicates the number of packets with CRC (Cyclic Redun- dancy Check) errors received from the netw ork by the adapter . When a packet is transmitted, a mathematical cal- culation is done on the header and data and is appended to the end of the frame.
Using TroubleShooter and ADLS Diagnostic Software 4-7 If the test fails repeatedl y , make a note of the error message, quit the T roubleShooter diagnostics, and call T echnical Support.
4-8 Running ADLS T o star t the ADLS program, double-click its icon. Figure 4-4 shows an e xample of the screen that appears. Figure 4-4 Asanté Driver Local Statistic (ADLS) ta ble When the progr am opens, it automatically begins gathering statistics.
Chapter 2 5-1 Chapter 5 T r oubleshooting This chapter addresses a f ew problems y ou may encounter when installing or using an Asanté MacCon network interf ace card. If you are unable to solv e a problem after reading this c hapter , please call Asanté T ech Support f or assistance at 800-622-7464 or 408-435-0706.
5-2 T roubleshooting T o lear n the latest version number: ❏ Call 800-622-7464 and press 4 for T echnical Support ❏ Then press 1 for Softw are Update information Y ou will obtain the current version number as well as instructions for downloading Asanté Ether net dr ivers from Applelink or InterNet.
Troubleshooting 5-3 Questions and Answers to Common Problems Q The AppleT alk zones are not in the Chooser and I can’t connect to my remote file server . What’s wrong? A ❏ AppleT alk may not be active in the Chooser . ❏ EtherT alk may not be selected in the Network contr ol panel.
5-4 T roubleshooting Q After I restart my Macintosh, the LocalT alk icon is selected, instead of the EtherT alk. A Make sure that: ❏ The Asanté EtherT alk driver is on the start-up disk or in the Sys- tem folder . ❏ The Asanté card is properl y seated.
Chapter 2 A-1 Appendix A 23 2 T echnical Specifications MacCon Specifications The specifications for the Asanté MacCon cards are giv en below . Systems supported Macintosh SE, SE/30, IIsi, LC family , Color Classic, Quadra, MacII (NuBus) family , Centris, and Per - forma computers with an available expansion slot Standards supported IEEE 802.
A-2 T ec hnical Specifications Ethernet Addr ess Each Asanté card has a 6 byte Ether net physical address beginning with 00.00.94. In Figure A-1, an arrow points to the location of the Ethernet address on each card.
Technical Specifications A-3 MacCon LEDs The LEDs for the MacCon NuBus, LC, IIsi, and SE cards are described below . Ether net Specifications The table below lists the Ethernet specifications.
A-4 T ec hnical Specifications Y ou may find the f ollowing tips useful. ❏ 10BaseT The wiring nor mally called f or in 10BaseT is 26 to 22 A WG , which corresponds to the wire gaug e of telephone twisted- pair cables. Y ou need two pair s of wiring for each node.
Technical Specifications A-5 Asanté FriendlyNet cards and Apple computers and pr inters with built-in Ethernet do not directly connect to the Ethernet cable; instead, an external transceiv er , like the Asanté FriendlyNet Media adapter , is used.
A-6 T ec hnical Specifications Figure B-1 A UI connector pin number assignments RJ-45 Connector The RJ-45 connector’ s pin numbers listed below are for an Asanté 10BaseT card positioned correctly with the notc h on the 8 pin mod- ular jack oriented down.
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