Proxim announced Monday that it has acquired Farallon Communications, a longtime networking developer for Macs and Intel-standard PCs. Proxim, which specializes in wireless broadband networking, said it purchased privately held Farallon for 121,654 shares of Proxim's common stock (worth about $10m) as well as $4m in cash. The merger, under discussion for the past two years, pools the companies' expertise in wireless and wired networking for Macs as well as Windows PCs, they said. No layoffs at either company are expected as a result of this acquisition, and the companies said they expect to maintain both Proxim's and Farallon's product lines. 'Proxim and Farallon have two very synergistic organisations from both a business perspective and a product perspective,' said Ken Haase, director of marketing for Farallon, said. 'We've got technologies in markets that Proxim would like to be in, and they've got technologies and markets where Farallon would like to be as well. The combined forces of both companies, I think, are going to be great for Mac and Windows users worldwide.'

As for Proxim, the buyout brings a Wintel-only company into a market it has been yearning to enter. 'This acquisition is positive across the board for Mac users,' Haase said.

'The Macintosh product line will not be affected by the acquisition. We have no intention of changing any products. Actually, we'll be coming out with a number of new products in the near future.' 'Farallon is staying on as a division of Proxim,' Bauer said.

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'Customers will still talk directly to Farallon as they always have, and they will still have customer and sales support separate from Windows sales and support.' Haase said he sees numerous advantages to Macintosh customers in the market for networking solutions. 'Proxim has a much bigger retail and sales channel,' Hasse said. 'This will allow Farallon to leverage their sales channels and bring our products into more places than ever before.'

Farallon's product line includes HomeLine, a home-networking system using standard phone outlets and the SkyLine wireless-networking card. Proxim's wireless product line includes Symphony, a cordless network system, RangeLAN2, a series of wireless add-ons, and Stratum, a series of long-distance wireless Ethernet bridges. Bauer told MacCentral a number of Proxim products will now be ported to support Mac users. 'Our intent is to leverage the Farallon development expertise to make Symphony a cross-platform solution, hopefully by the end of the year.' The Farallon deal is Proxim's third acquisition in the past year. It purchased Micrilor in January 2000 and Wavespan in December 1999.

Farallon was founded in 1986 and later bought by Netopia. Farallon separated from Netopia in 1998.

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Now that is an interesting question. I am not sure myself.

However, if you have a Mac that can boot OS X 10.2, and another than runs 10.3 or 10.4, you can find out pretty easily if they do. Either that adapter will work just like a regular AFP bridge or it will function like a FastPath 5 TCP/IP router, which I doubt but until I get reports that it does in fact then I'll remain skeptical. You'll also need a driver for it. I'm not sure if it will work with OT systems - you'll have to find out if that is the case. I use an Asante EN/SC adaptor myself but I'm sure this advice will work for the EtherWave You first want to get a netgear 10mbps switch. This will take the information from your modern 100 mbps router and make it more compatible with the classic mac.

So you would run ethernet cable from your modern router, to the netgear switch and then to the EtherWave. After installing the drivers, you'll want to use MacTCP which you should have installed on the mac to then select Ethernet Built in, then manually set up the gateway settings for dhcp.

I've had good luck with MacTCP but you can also use Open Transport to just set TCP/IP settings to automatic. I was looking for an article/post/blog/something that mentioned the difference between the Modem and Printer ports, saying something technical about one versus the other. I can't remember where it was and it's not in my bookmarks or history. Something to do about xfering data without as much interference from the CPU or thereabouts. Maybe it was a reference to something described in Inside Macintosh.dunno. You may have seen this post: Also this IIgs technote mentions the interrupt A as being special: In practice, there is no difference, just two serial ports hanging off of the Zilog SCC.

Apple just switches the communication mode to SDLC to whatever port Localtalk is being used on. The Etherwave likely uses the same transfer mode that Localtalk networking uses (230kbps) to achieve that breakneck speed. Out of the box the SCC is capable of 115kbps with standard RS-232 signaling, the real question is if the host machine can handle it as most aren't fast enough. It really doesn't matter which port you use. Apple's software gives you the option to use either the printer port or the modem port for Localtalk.

Proxim Buys Farallon For Mac

The same port flexibility exists on the slower Apple IIgs too. I have one of these — disused and in a box somewhere or other — and once upon a time I did have it working. There is some small magic at play in the dongle itself that boots networking speed well beyond the ordinary limits of the localtalk/ modem port to which it connects. I don't think the increase was massive, but when the thing was new, it was enough to make the purchase seem worthwhile. I do not think the EtherWave is compatible any form of Open Transport, and seem to recall that there are compatibility issues even with 7.5 (though that might just be the later iterations, i.e., 7.5.x). Maybe try under 7.1? I think I must have had it working on a Duo 280c running 7.1.

Some years ago, I posted on here and asked about the thing. The question got a very knowledgeable response (Gorgonops? But that would probably have been before the crash, and the archive is not searchable. I did also some research and couldn't find the drivers too. I did some research in things which are available and found out that my installer EN Card Installer 2.3 is probably the right driver. If you look at the proxim suppport (successors Farallon) site you can download a file called 59xv23.sit.hqx If you download it it is named FENI2.3.sit.so almost the same as FENI222.sit.hqx.

I have the feeling that it should work. Also the installation goes without problems. Normally the installation disk will complain it the hardware is not on board. If there are owners with a working EtherWave and with a driver disk.please help me to solve this mistery! I would also love to try the file FENI222.sit.hqx. Maybe someone has downloaded it in the past?