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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Animagic on September 28, 2003, 09:38:24 PM

Title: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: Animagic on September 28, 2003, 09:38:24 PM

Hi there!

I have a A1200 w/Blizzard1240T.
I want to know if there is a PCMCIA LAN card that don't conflict with the accelerator card or my genlock. Basically, all I need to do is to make the amiga a part of the local intranet (through FTP access).

Thanks in advance...

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: Piru on September 28, 2003, 09:50:55 PM

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I want to know if there is a PCMCIA LAN card that don't conflict with the accelerator card

PCMCIA don't conflict with Blizzard 1240-T. New Blizzard turbos have their memory in 32-bit area, so there is no problem in this respect.

You can use most NE2000 compatible cards with cnet.device. To see a list of the compatible cards, check cnetdevice.lha (http://www.iki.fi/sintonen/sw/cnetdevice.lha) for the compatibility list.

You can also use some 3com compatible cards with hard/drivr/3c589.lha (http://www.aminet.net/hard/drivr/3c589.lha).

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: Animagic on September 28, 2003, 10:02:27 PM

Honestly, I' ve heard a lot of things afout PCMCIA conflicts...

My card seems PCMCIA-ready then!

Thank you very much my friend.
You really helped me ;-)

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: Doobrey on September 28, 2003, 10:13:55 PM

The PCMCIA problems mainly affected "memory only" trapdoor cards, and 68020 accelerator cards that saved costs by not including any autoconfig.
 (I think some early 030 cards were the same too)

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: Cyberus on September 29, 2003, 11:48:39 AM

Can the A600/A1200 only use 10Mb cards?

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: fragment on September 29, 2003, 12:29:27 PM

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Cyberus wrote:
Can the A600/A1200 only use 10Mb cards?

It wouldn't be useful to use 100Mb anyways because Amiga can't even use the full bandwith of the 10Mb cards..

Title: Re: A1200 Ethernet (LAN)
Post by: LP on September 29, 2003, 12:50:02 PM

The 3com ethernet driver works with my 3C589C EtherLink(tm) III... :-)

Just be prepaired that you properbly will encounter reset problems with the PCMCIA port...

So you should use these utils to prevent it:
CardPatch.lha (http://www.aminet.net/util/boot/CardPatch.lha)
CardReset.lha (http://www.aminet.net/util/boot/CardReset.lha)

Don't use before you've tried without them...