What version of OS 8 do you use?  I have a performa 6400 too, and I first
got OS 8 after it came out about two years ago.  the initial driver for the
computer was flawwed however, and I had major problems until a new driver
program was written.  If you just have 8.0, that's probably the problem.  I
think the driver was from Drive Setup 1.3.  Drive Setup 1.3.1 fixed the
problem, and then OS 8.1 update had Drive Setup 1.4.  So if you are using
the old version of OS 8, that could be the problem.

Another possibility is that if you are using 8.5 or 8.6, I had read
somewhere that those OS's were G3 native and weren't supposed to work on
older Power Macs like the 6400, but I've also heard they do work, so that
might not be the problem.

Jeff Wax

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>From: Ryan MacCarthy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Newsgroups: mu.comp.os.macintosh
>Subject: ethernet ghost?
>Date: Mon, Oct 18, 1999, 11:53 AM
>

> i've been working on this fickle performa sparatically all year...
> anyway, the latest dilemma is the absense of ethernet.  i installed a
> card a a month or two ago.  it worked (netscape connected, and appleshare
> network worked, i even linked to my machine).  then after installing MS
> office (following a clean install of the os 8. and the driver update,
> even initializing the hd) it crashed, ? disk and all.
>
> so i reinstalled os 8 and the driver update (for performa 6400).  but now
> i can't get ethernet to show up in the appletalk control panel, or the
> tcp/ip.  i get appletalk (mac ip) and ppp, but no ethernet built-in.  i
> have checked multiple times to make sure all the extensions and control
> panels are there, and it seems to have all the ones i need to make my mac
> (blue g3) work.  i don't get it.  any help from the gallery?
>
> thanks.
>
> Ryan MacCarthy
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