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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: wildstar1063 on December 23, 2003, 06:20:35 AM

Title: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: wildstar1063 on December 23, 2003, 06:20:35 AM

I have a QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card,
 and I can't seem to get the thing to work with Miami or Genesis
 I think this is because the QuickNetS2.device SANA 2 driver
 is not a physical file on the disk, but is in the card's rom.

When Miami or Genesis ask for the SANA 2 device they
 give a file requestor, but as this is not a physical file on the
 disk, they don't seem to find the card, but the quicknets2.device
 does show up under devices in ARTM.

Any one ever use or are currently using one of these cards
 I could shure use some help.

Thanks

Chuck E.
 

Title: Re: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: maximo on December 23, 2003, 09:56:26 AM

Have you tried one of the other drivers supplied with Miami? Also check out Aminet as there should be a driver on there some where. The card will be a NE2000 compatiable interface which was one of the industry standards not so long ago.

Title: Re: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: tweek on December 23, 2003, 01:31:06 PM

Try typing the device name without any path in the file requester.
That should make exec.library/OpenDevice() handle it properly by first searching the list of already loaded devices.
Just remember that this list is case sensitive.

If this doesn't help, then have a look at Miami's / Genesis' config file to see if the path really is removed.

Good luck and merry christmas.

-Tweek

Title: Re: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: wildstar1063 on December 24, 2003, 12:47:52 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, I got Genesis talikng
 to the card and driver.
Now I get a message saying genesis Cant get an IP
 address and something abount BootP any ideas what this means?

Thanks

Chuck

Title: Re: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: Castellen on December 24, 2003, 02:53:01 AM

What did you do to get it working exactly??

I have two Quicknet2000 cards I'm trying to set up in an A3000 with MiamiDX as a standalone firewall.
MiamiDX has a MNI driver for these cards, but it wouldn't talk to them.

I've since found quicknet.device drivers (files, not in the card's ROM) which appear to talk to the cards OK as I can read each one's unique ID number, but I can't seem to get communication via the BNC connector, though it's a bit tricky to test as I don't have much of a coax based network.
Going to try getting some AUI to RJ45 adaptors which should have better results.

Title: Re: Help with QuickNet 2000 Ethernet card
Post by: tweek on December 25, 2003, 08:17:23 AM

@ wildstar

You've probably configured Genesis to use BootP to figure out a dynamic IP address for you.
The most commonly used protocol for that purpose is atm DHCP (dynamic host configuring protocol), which is supposed to be backward compatible with BootP iirc.
The only problem is that it doesn't seem to work with Genesis.

I use static IP addresses in a local network and have a pc running Linux as a firewall with IP Masquerade.

-Tweek