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Title: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: StormLord on November 12, 2008, 07:20:28 PM

in NEWS/Software there was an anouncement about some native pcmcia drivers
for OS4 and MOS, there was for 3c589 cards and prism wireless cards.
but the provided link is not working anymore.
Does anyone knows if there is an alternative link that I can download these drivers?
or maybe anyone can send them to me?

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: Christian Johansson on November 12, 2008, 07:42:35 PM

Prism2 drivers is available on Aminet, only for OS3 and OS4 though.

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: StormLord on November 12, 2008, 07:49:12 PM

yes I have found the 68k drivers on aminet,
only for my classic OS4 setup these doesn't work...

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: Framiga on November 12, 2008, 07:58:50 PM

they are not 68K only

/Devs/networks/MOS/prism2.device
/Devs/networks/OS4/prism2.device
/Devs/networks/prism2.device

http://aminet.net/driver/net/prism2.lha

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: ncafferkey on November 12, 2008, 10:18:04 PM

The installer script will probably install the PPC version, which only supports PCI cards, so you should manually install the 68k version.

The beta drivers have been removed because they didn't work.

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: StormLord on November 12, 2008, 10:20:54 PM

@Framiga

AFAIK these are all 68k but modified to work correctly on MOS and OS4.

Thanks anyway

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: StormLord on November 12, 2008, 10:24:48 PM

@ncafferkey

Thanks for the clarification, I managed to install the 68k version of prism2.device and finally it worked. Now I'm writing this from my OS4 setup.
I'm dissapointed thought that we must rely on 68k code for critical components as drivers.

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: ncafferkey on November 12, 2008, 10:48:12 PM

If you're prepared to do some testing, I could probably send you a PPC test version or two later this month. Email me if you're interested.

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: StormLord on November 12, 2008, 11:45:52 PM

Quote

ncafferkey wrote:
If you're prepared to do some testing, I could probably send you a PPC test version or two later this month. Email me if you're interested.

MORE than willing to test...

e-mail sent..

Title: Re: OS4 and MorphOS Beta versions of PCMCIA network drivers
Post by: Framiga on November 14, 2008, 02:30:07 PM

Quote

StormLord wrote:
@Framiga

AFAIK these are all 68k but modified to work correctly on MOS and OS4.

Thanks anyway

OS4 and MOS one are ELF ... anyway if they doesn't works, it doesn't matter!