[DM-MUG] Dust off your Classic OS problems solving skills, Thanks!

[Matt W]

Wow! A Cretaceous Classic Compatibility Conundrum! I never used  
SoftWindows so my expertise doesn't even live close, but I think the  
driver error is right on. It is a possibility that SoftWindows 95  
doesn't know how to speak to the hardware that UMAX used in their  
boxes. SW should be emulating some generic PC ethernet driver, and it  
should be sharing the same info used by the Mac, but it may not be  
working with the UMAX hardware. You might get mileage from talking to  
a Windows geek about this, or maybe not.

Matthew

On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Douglas wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Trying to get Softwindows 95 to see the ethernet network that my  
> venerable S900 is connected to but without success. Any ideas would  
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> The system - a Umax/Supermac S900 using the standard Umax/Apollo I/ 
> O card for ethernet. Running system 8.6 (Open Transport version  
> 2.03) with a 500Mhz G3 card, 18gigs of Ultra-2 SCSI disk, and  
> 848megs of built-in memory. The system is very stable and "sees"  
> the network just fine (local boxes and the internet) from the Mac OS.
>
> The application - Softwindows version 5.05 installed on a 500meg C:  
> partition with 128megs of memory. The application itself runs fine  
> but even after setting up network connectivity following the  
> instructions in the Softwindows manual I get an error in the  
> "System" control panel, "Device Manager" tab, "Network Adapter"  
> device, "Insignia Solutions Ethernet Driver" driver. The error  
> reads -  "Device failure: Try changing the driver for this device.  
> If that doesn't work see your hardware documentation. (Code 2)"
>
> Many net searches later I've found a few relevant sources of  
> information but nothing that solves the problem.
>
> Thanks for any ideas, Doug