hpa@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu ( Dameon Welch ) (06/12/91)
This message is intended to help people out who have a Hackintosh Plus (i.e., a Mac 512ke upgraded to a Plus via third party hardware) and are running System 7. If you're getting the following message below (at startup), this message is for you: "The driver for the selected Appletalk connection could not be found. The built-in localtalk port will be used instead." There are two ways to fix this problem -- both require the use of ResEdit. Both of these methods work -- but they are not for the faint of heart. Steve Meyer <G7D7K9@IRISHMVS.CC.ND.EDU> offers this method: > Use ResEdit to open the System file (you get a message warning you > to be careful, so click Ok), then open the DRVR resources, SELECT > (don't open) the DRVR with the name ".ATP", then choose Clear from > the Edit menu. Close the System file and save changes. > What this does is to cut out the AppleTalk driver from the system > file. I think the reason I was getting this message was that the > AppleTalk driver was looking for an AppleTalk port, which it would have > found if my machine had been a "real" MacPlus, but because my machine > was originally a 512E it wasn't finding such a port and the > AppleTalk Driver was complaining. (I'm not certain about all that.) > I haven't had any problems, and I stopped getting that message. Note > that if you do this, you won't be able to use AppleTalk (but I don't > THINK that's possible on an upgraded 512E anyway, without a mother- > board swap. But I've never tryed to network with AppleTalk, since I > don't have any other machines to network with.) Fred Yeganeh <FYEGANEH%UMAB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>, on the other hand, offers this method: > Using Resedit open up the system file and find the resource labeled > "lmgr" and open it up. There will only be one type of that resource. > Open this resource and do a find command for the following hex string : > "612C 610E 554F 3F03 42A7 A988 544F 281F 4E75 7200" > and change it to : > "4E71 610E 4E71 4E71 4E71 4E71 4E71 281F 4E75 7200" > save the new resource and don't worry about the dialog box warning > about being unable to compress the resource. > > This patch prevents the alert box from interrupting and removing the > startup screen and forcing you to wait to press the OK button. However, > it should allow the procedure to do its normal correction for the "error" > it detected. Personally, I prefer method 2 because it appears that you can still use Appletalk, whereas with method 1 (removing the Appletalk Driver), you can not. Hope this helps some of you who have Hackintoshes and System 7.0 (like I do, but I hope to be getting a new machine here really soon....) Dameon Welch GEnie: DWelch Packet Radio: NH6TW@NH6SG.HI.USA.OC Internet: hpa@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) (06/14/91)
In article <13427@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> hpa@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu ( Dameon Welch ) writes: > >Steve Meyer <G7D7K9@IRISHMVS.CC.ND.EDU> offers this method: > >> file. I think the reason I was getting this message was that the >> AppleTalk driver was looking for an AppleTalk port, which it would have >> found if my machine had been a "real" MacPlus, but because my machine >> was originally a 512E it wasn't finding such a port and the 512Ke's have an AppleTalk port. I think the problem is that 512Ke's are missing the extended parameter RAM and the system stores the current AppleTalk link protocol ID (ie, LocalTalk, EtherTalk, TokenTalk, ...) in PRAM. >Personally, I prefer method 2 because it appears that you can still use >Appletalk, whereas with method 1 (removing the Appletalk Driver), you >can not. That's probably the best approach. -- Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. lsr@apple.com (or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)