I'm surprised that I've just found this thread.
Myself and a friend from uni tried to do this last year so he could get his Classic on the 'net with a Micro EN/SC. We took the totally scientific approach and mapped out all the connections on a diagram first, which showed that it theoretically could be done. Like yourself, we didn't want to hack into the EN/SC adaptor itself so we went about procuring a HDI-30 socket. That's where we hit a snag but fortunately I had a few PowerBook logic boards kicking about. Eventually though it ended up in a PowerBook re-build project and the adaptor was long forgotten. Sadly the diagram seems to have vanished as well.
We did get as far as planning the design which was basically a HDI-30 female connector wired to a DB-25 male connector for plugging into the Mac. I don't think anything like this existed commerically but I may be wrong.
I'll give the guy a shout and see if he's made any progress with it since then. Heck, if he doesn't want the adaptor any more then I'll try this as a Winter project!
It'll certainly be interesting if someone gets this working in the flesh.
Myself and a friend from uni tried to do this last year so he could get his Classic on the 'net with a Micro EN/SC. We took the totally scientific approach and mapped out all the connections on a diagram first, which showed that it theoretically could be done. Like yourself, we didn't want to hack into the EN/SC adaptor itself so we went about procuring a HDI-30 socket. That's where we hit a snag but fortunately I had a few PowerBook logic boards kicking about. Eventually though it ended up in a PowerBook re-build project and the adaptor was long forgotten. Sadly the diagram seems to have vanished as well.
We did get as far as planning the design which was basically a HDI-30 female connector wired to a DB-25 male connector for plugging into the Mac. I don't think anything like this existed commerically but I may be wrong.
I'll give the guy a shout and see if he's made any progress with it since then. Heck, if he doesn't want the adaptor any more then I'll try this as a Winter project!
It'll certainly be interesting if someone gets this working in the flesh.