Thanks a lot for your replies! Sorry, long time since my last visit around here. My PowerBook 100 running pomme-s.ch has now been online non-stop for more than a week, and it runs fine. It is helped by a lime iBook running Tiger which does the dynmaic DNS updates.
Now, the Verausser control panel works just as advertised, but unfortunately it doesn't cut it for what I wanted to do: it can switch the internal LCD screen off whenever an external monitor is connected. But at least one monitor must be on. My goal was to switch off the internal screen, and wake it up for example with a key press or a trackball movement.
I also tried that control panel named "Backlight Control" on the same page. It should disable backlighting after a specified delay. It kind of works, but only partially switch backlighting off (now it looks like a blinking broken neon in a scary corridor...).
Actually all my old Macs that don't have ethernet are connected to the internet with LocalTalk (except for the 128K and the 512K for now). I have a PowerBook 1400 with an ethernet card running IPNetRouter and LocalTalk Bridge, which act as the hub and a mixed LocalTalk / PhoneNet network that connects all my veterans.
It connects on the PowerBook SCSI port (HDI-30) and to the ethernet network (there is a RJ-45 and a RJ-45 + BNC versions. Mine is RJ-45 only). You need to install a driver, and then you see an "Aletrnate Ethernet" icon in the Network control panel. Works perfectly!
I would love to score an Asante Mini EN/SC for my compact Macs someday...
Now, I've got some webdesign stuff to do, and I'll be able to start adding content to the site!
Thank you very much for that link! Some cool bits of software on there.
Now, the Verausser control panel works just as advertised, but unfortunately it doesn't cut it for what I wanted to do: it can switch the internal LCD screen off whenever an external monitor is connected. But at least one monitor must be on. My goal was to switch off the internal screen, and wake it up for example with a key press or a trackball movement.
I also tried that control panel named "Backlight Control" on the same page. It should disable backlighting after a specified delay. It kind of works, but only partially switch backlighting off (now it looks like a blinking broken neon in a scary corridor...).
Well, is that a challenge?
Actually all my old Macs that don't have ethernet are connected to the internet with LocalTalk (except for the 128K and the 512K for now). I have a PowerBook 1400 with an ethernet card running IPNetRouter and LocalTalk Bridge, which act as the hub and a mixed LocalTalk / PhoneNet network that connects all my veterans.This is one of my coolest piece of hardware, imho. I found that picture online:
It connects on the PowerBook SCSI port (HDI-30) and to the ethernet network (there is a RJ-45 and a RJ-45 + BNC versions. Mine is RJ-45 only). You need to install a driver, and then you see an "Aletrnate Ethernet" icon in the Network control panel. Works perfectly!
I would love to score an Asante Mini EN/SC for my compact Macs someday...
Now, I've got some webdesign stuff to do, and I'll be able to start adding content to the site!