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Looking for old SMC ethernet drivers for OS8/9
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I know this is a very long shot but i have an old PowerMac 6500 that I'm fixing and it has an old SMC ethernet card. The hard drive was empty when I got it and the ethernet card does not use the regular Apple drivers. If anyone knows where I can get my hands on these drivers (should be OS8.1 or higher if I remember right), I would be very grateful. They aren't listed on Google or SMC's site.
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Scroll down to the bottom of the page, you might have the same model mentioned there, SMC 1255TX.
The 6400 Zone - Ethernet Card Info
Eventually I found that SMC makes two cards with Mac drivers, called EZ PCI Card 10/100, models 1244TX and 1255TX. I opted for the 1255TX because it has drivers for systems 7.53 through 9.2.2. I'm using FU-8.6. The 1244TX driver is for 9.1 or above. Both cards also have drivers for various OS X versions but that's not a factor for the 6400.
I tried to download the drivers from the SMC website but I can't as it seems I should specify a part number.
Good luck !!
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Hum, I was able to unzip that 1255TX with both, BetterZip 2 and StuffIt Expander under Lion. File seems to be OK.
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1255TX_DRv10_Mac8x9x.sit ---> SMC1255TX Driver for MAC OS 8.x/9.x
I've extracted the installer file for that driver, other included files are for Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2
Feel free to grab the OS 8 and 9 driver installer here, 231 KB
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1763527/1255...10_Mac8x9x.sit
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To make sure file's integrity is OK, I did download it from the dropbox link at the post above with a Mac running Mac OS 9. StuffIt Expander v.6 did open the file just fine.
While I don't have any Mac running Mac OS 8, I guess you should not have any issue getting the file expanded.
(Last edited by angelmb; Jan 8, 2012 at 08:57 AM.
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I am genuinely interested to find out if this has worked for you. 
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No. Sadly neither set of drivers worked. The card is older. I fluke out and found some old unlabelled floppy disk in a box that had the old SMC Etherpower II drivers on it.
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Thanks for letting us know. It had to be great to get that classic Mac working again.
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