Olde-Mac-Milt still has a Farallon PN890-TP EtherWave 10-Base-T card on sale from his eBay 'Shoppe', being one of two that he has offered for a while. An interesting beast that allows (it has a pass-through RJ-45 pair of ports) daisy-chaining another Mac without the need for two Macs to share a hub.
That same divergent thinking by Farallon may have been responsible for the card that you tried before. In quite a bit of Googling I was not able to confirm it, but the suspicion remained strong, and was supported by hints that I found, that your card was indeed a PhoneNET (LocalTalk) to ethernet bridge, as shown by its willingness to acknowledge an upstream ethernet connection, but it failed to respond to a fast ethernet driver's installer because it was but a 10Base-T card. The ports that you mentioned do not support this hypothesis, unless there is also an RJ-11 in addition to the AUI and RJ-45.
Then again, as Charlieman wrote, perhaps it was just a misapplication of the PhoneNET label by Farallon, and the driver installation failed because the card was old enough (as shown by the presence of the AUI port) to need attachment to a 10Base-T hub to overcome its inability to autonegotiate a full duplex connection.
If there is an RJ-11 connector, you may care, at some time, to experiment with a daisy-chained PhoneNET network hanging off that card, if only to verify its intended purpose.
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That same divergent thinking by Farallon may have been responsible for the card that you tried before. In quite a bit of Googling I was not able to confirm it, but the suspicion remained strong, and was supported by hints that I found, that your card was indeed a PhoneNET (LocalTalk) to ethernet bridge, as shown by its willingness to acknowledge an upstream ethernet connection, but it failed to respond to a fast ethernet driver's installer because it was but a 10Base-T card. The ports that you mentioned do not support this hypothesis, unless there is also an RJ-11 in addition to the AUI and RJ-45.
Then again, as Charlieman wrote, perhaps it was just a misapplication of the PhoneNET label by Farallon, and the driver installation failed because the card was old enough (as shown by the presence of the AUI port) to need attachment to a 10Base-T hub to overcome its inability to autonegotiate a full duplex connection.
If there is an RJ-11 connector, you may care, at some time, to experiment with a daisy-chained PhoneNET network hanging off that card, if only to verify its intended purpose.
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