From: shoemake@apple.com (Mike Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Installing Network software? Help?
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:35:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.223902.26841@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) writes:
> 
> 
> We just (finally) upgraded to System 7 (specifically 7.0.1/Tuneup1.1.1)
> and can no longer get our network softare installed properly.  It's a
> IIci 8/80 with Cache card.  A couple of questions here:
> 
>   1.  What does the System 7.0.1 Installer actually install as pertains
>       to an ethernet board and network stuff?  When I try to use the
>       Network control panel, I get a dialog telling me that my Network
>       software has not been installed correctly and that I should go back
>       and reinstall it.
> 
>   2.  The installer that came with the board (its an Ether2 board from
>       Compatible Systems Corp. from over two years ago) has no clue about 
>       System 7 and just complains about me not having my System software
>       installed correctly (but I think that's probably because its expecting
>       a System 6.0.x configuration).
> 
>   3.  I downloaded the latest Network Software Installer from ftp.apple.com
>       (version 1.2 from March 1992) and used that to try to install the
>       Network software (Network, AppleTalk, EtherTalk).  It claims to have
>       installed properly, but after I reboot and try the Network control
>       panel, it complains just as before (Network software incorrectly
>       installed, go install it again).
> 
>   4.  On a slightly different subject ... How should MacTCP (1.1) be set up
>       under System 7.0.x?  I know there has been talk back and forth about
>       such-and-such being in the System Folder itself as opposed to the 
>       Control Panels folder (with an alias in the CP folder).  How should
>       that be set up?
> 
> Any suggestions (by post or e-mail) would be most helpful!  Thanks in advance!
> 
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This is a result of Tuneup 1.x. You have AppleTalk turned OFF in the
Chooser.  When the machine boots, the Tuneup extension causes none of the
AppleTalk stuff to get installed. This severely confuses the Network
Control Panel.

MacTCP 1.1 is fully 7.0-aware; there is no need to play games
with its location. Just toss it in the Control Panels Folder.

MacTCP will also fail to open with AppleTalk off and the Tuneup extension
installed. Of course, MacTCP running native over Ethernet has nothing to
do with AppleTalk, so why does AppleTalk have to be ON to use MacTCP, you ask?

Hopefully, future system software releases will work a little better in this
respect...

If you expect your old Ether2 card to work, you will need System 7 compatible
drivers for it; especially if you turn on VM.

Mike Shoemaker
Apple Computer, Inc.