As far as I know there was no serial to ethernet adapter, but the LocalTalk to Ethernet bridges I mentioned in an earlier post are effectively the same thing.

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Actually, there were serial-to-ethernet adapters. I'm aware of two- the Farallon EtherWave Mac/PB adapter and a similar one from Dayna.

Basically, you plugged it into the serial port and loaded a driver. IIRC, they usually only worked with classic networking (not OpenTransport). The Farallon could also work in a "default" mode as a LocalTalk bridge.

I use to use one of the Farallon adapters with a Duo 230. It was okay, albeit a bit slow.

John

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I'm pretty sure to use IP networking (OpenTransport) over the serial port you would need to have an AppleShare IP server setup, or a MacIP router like a Cayman Gatorbox. I have both a Gatorbox and an Asante EN/SC SCSI to Ethernet adapter. For a single computer the SCSI to Ethernet adapter is probably the easier setup. Obviously, the best option is to have ethernet card in the SE PDS slot.

Do some forum work (like I am doing now).

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Even that may be ambitious. A lot of sites (I'll throw out AtariAge as an example ) will be totally unusable.

Ok, so in that case then the hard drive would be bad and it is asking for a bootable floppy.

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Or, there is no HD, or there is no OS installed on the HD, or the HD cable is unplugged... you get the idea.