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Operating System Specific Discussions => AROS Research Operating System => Topic started by: Pete_Noir on August 09, 2009, 05:31:13 PM

Title: Networking
Post by: Pete_Noir on August 09, 2009, 05:31:13 PM

Bit of a long shot here, but has anyone managed to get AROS working with an nVidia MCP51 ethernet controller? It's pretty common, so maybe there's someone else out there.. :/

So far I'm very impressed with AROS/Icaros, it's come such a long way since I last tried it out!

Right now I just want an Amiga-ish environment that I can use for everyday things, checking email, IRC etc. I have Amiga Forever, which is great, but I love the speed of AROS :)

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: deadwood on August 09, 2009, 05:58:57 PM

I don't know if this card is supported by existing drivers, but here you have a list of cards that should work:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Platforms/x86_support

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: orb85750 on August 09, 2009, 09:17:31 PM

Quote from: Pete_Noir;518635

I have Amiga Forever, which is great, but I love the speed of AROS :)

By the way, is it possible to run Amiga Forever from AROS?

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: deadwood on August 09, 2009, 09:39:31 PM

Quote from: orb85750;518654

By the way, is it possible to run Amiga Forever from AROS?

Depends what level of running do you need. ;) Amibridge uses Amiga Forever to set up its system :)

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: Pete_Noir on August 10, 2009, 01:13:58 PM

Quote from: deadwood;518640

I don't know if this card is supported by existing drivers, but here you have a list of cards that should work:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Platforms/x86_support

Aha, thanks :)

No luck for me, by the looks of it though.. ah well, maybe one day.

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: deadwood on August 10, 2009, 04:23:20 PM

Quote from: Pete_Noir;518708

Aha, thanks :)

No luck for me, by the looks of it though.. ah well, maybe one day.

Unless your hardware is a laptop, I woudl recommend buying a used network card with one of supported chipsets - such hardware is dirt cheap, while supporting new network cards has one major problem - person needed to write the driver :)

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: Pete_Noir on August 12, 2009, 01:13:41 PM

Quote from: deadwood;518729

Unless your hardware is a laptop, I woudl recommend buying a used network card with one of supported chipsets - such hardware is dirt cheap, while supporting new network cards has one major problem - person needed to write the driver :)

Yeah, I might just do that!

Title: Re: Networking
Post by: lsmart on August 12, 2009, 06:54:35 PM

I tried AROS on a Mac using Parallels. Networking was terribly slow there. Worse still: the whole (virtual) machine hung until the transfer was completed. One of the CPUs would go to 100% load and all you could do was to sit through it.

Well I am sort of glad that I had these problems with AROS/Parallels, else I wouldn´t have had enough reason to get my Sam440. And the Sam is pretty cool.