joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de (01/13/88)
I purchased an AppleTalk PC Card on monday. Its obvious that you should not have a mouse and a modem (I am using an AT - PC users might use IRQ 2) otherwise you'll have to trash one... I would like to use IRQ 5 for the AppleTalk PC card (not used in my system, I've only one printer attached). - should be an easy hardware modification. However, the atalk.exe program does not allow /cardint=5. Has anyone done that before? Is someone at Apple listening? I know that this modification will void warranty and that any hints regarding the patch will be without any garantees.. Joachim Lindenberg, University of Karlsruhe Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany.
lenoil@apple.UUCP (01/16/88)
In article <30@iravcl.ira.uka.de> joachim@iravcl.ira.uka.de writes: >I purchased an AppleTalk PC Card on monday. Its obvious that you should >not have a mouse and a modem (I am using an AT - PC users might use IRQ 2) >otherwise you'll have to trash one... > >I would like to use IRQ 5 for the AppleTalk PC card (not used in my system, >I've only one printer attached). - should be an easy hardware modification. >However, the atalk.exe program does not allow /cardint=5. Has anyone >done that before? Is someone at Apple listening? > >Joachim Lindenberg, University of Karlsruhe >Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany. Slow down Joachim, no hardware modifications are necessary. Yesterday, Apple announced the immediate availability of AppleShare PC, which allows PCs to transparently access AppleShare file servers and AppleTalk LaserWriters and ImageWriters. AppleShare PC includes a new version of the ATALK.EXE AppleTalk driver, which no longer uses the card's hardware interrupt feature. The /cardint setting is completely ignored, and does not conflict with your COM ports. The new driver will also be included with the AppleTalk PC Card, which has now been renamed to the LocalTalk PC Card, in line with Apple's renaming of AppleTalk Personal Network Cabling to LocalTalk Personal Network Cabling. (This was done to avoid confusion between AppleTalk the network system, and LocalTalk the cabling system, since AppleTalk protocols now run on various cable systems, including Ethernet cabling.) Additionally, the price of the card has been dropped from $399 to $249 (AppleShare PC costs $149). In other words, you should have waited a few days to buy your card. But the good news is that the new ATALK.EXE (version 2.0) will solve your problems. Robert Lenoil Apple Computer Inc. Network Systems Development