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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: novaburst on September 12, 2003, 04:46:54 PM

Title: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: novaburst on September 12, 2003, 04:46:54 PM

Anyone have a good recommendation for a PCMCIA network card for an A1200?

I figure it needs to be NE2000 compliant.

They have one at Softhut, but it is $99.95. Is that the going rate, or is there anything cheaper out there that will work well?

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: mikeymike on September 12, 2003, 04:50:36 PM

I got one for 30 UKP, Dynamode brand.  I just looked for the cheapest, bog-standard thing I could find, worked fine with the cnet.device driver.

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: Hal2710e on September 12, 2003, 05:02:13 PM

Hi,

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novaburst wrote:
Anyone have a good recommendation for a PCMCIA network card for an A1200?

I figure it needs to be NE2000 compliant.

Got a secondhand one through Amibench,

Grey Cell Systems; Gold II PCMCIA Ethernet Card fo £10.
Works a treat with cnet.device and Miami32

I had to queiry the device to find the MAC address, then logged on to Blueyonder website using my PC and registered it to my account. I then reconnected to blueyonder with my amiga and the registered PCMCIA card and I am now surfing the web with Ibrowse  :-D  :-D  :-D

Hal2710e

Any problems with your install give me an email and I'll help more if poss.

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: lorddef on September 12, 2003, 06:14:15 PM

I have a 3com Etherlink III card in my a1200, which works great with the 3c589.device from aminet.

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: fragment on September 12, 2003, 08:04:50 PM

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novaburst wrote:
Anyone have a good recommendation for a PCMCIA network card for an A1200?

If you can find a decent priced 3Com card, I'd suggest to get that one.  NE2000 compatible cards are usually much cheaper tho.. Use cnet driver for NE2000 cards and 3c589 driver for 3com. Both can be found on aminet (http://www.aminet.net/). And both archives contain a compatibility list. Better check out the list before buying.

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: Xian72 on September 13, 2003, 01:22:29 AM

I have a CNet CN40 Ethernet PCMCIA card that I don't need anymore. If you're interested, it's up for sale.

Title: Re: Know of a good current PCMCIA NIC for A1200?
Post by: adolescent on September 17, 2003, 07:30:41 PM

I'm currently using a Kingston KNE-PC2T with cnet.device and it works great.  They're all over eBay, I picked up mine new in box for $10.