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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: spavatch on February 17, 2004, 03:06:11 PM

Title: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: spavatch on February 17, 2004, 03:06:11 PM: Hey.
Is there a list of Amiga-compatible PCMCIA NICs anywhere around? I've been trying to find one but I had no luck... :(
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: that_punk_guy on February 17, 2004, 03:13:12 PM: With the 3com driver on Aminet:

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3Com
3c562, 3c562B, 3c562C, 3c562D, 3c563B, 3c563C, 3c563D, 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, 3c589D

3Com Megahertz
3C3FEM556C, 3CCE589EC, 3CCE589ET, 3CCEM556, 3CCEM556B [tested], 3CXE589D, 3CXE589EC 3CXEM556

Farallon
EtherMac *, EtherWave *

Hitachi
HT-4840-13

Motorola
Marquis *

I think the asterisk means "untested."

I don't know about other drivers and their support, but 3com cards are pretty easy to come by.
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: rhino on February 17, 2004, 04:45:17 PM: Quote
I don't know about other drivers and their support, but 3com cards are pretty easy to come by.

There's a list of supported cards in the cnet.device (an alternative PCMCIA network driver that supports a different range of cards) archive:

cnetdevice.lha (http://www.aminet.net/hard/drivr/cnetdevice.lha)

HTH

Robert
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: PiR on February 17, 2004, 05:28:52 PM: Well, I have one marked as:
3Com EtherlinkIII 562D/563D
Looked in that readme and thats why I bought it.

Couldn't make it working till now :-(
Author of the 3c589.device answered me on that forum and said that he discovered some difficulties with that card.
Have a look:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6592

Good luck
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: Ryu on February 17, 2004, 06:03:27 PM: I still have a few PCMCIA network cards for sale... they are all tested and work fine with cnet.device.

I am willing to ship worldwide and I accept paypal payments.

All I ask is £10 if your in the UK for one inc postage, I can calculate postage for other countries too.
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: x56h34 on February 17, 2004, 07:42:32 PM: Get the best A600/A1200 compatible PCMCIA 10Mbit Ethernet card there is from this guy (UK based) @ only 3GBP a piece:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3461313778 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3461313778)

They feature an all-in-one design with no nasty dongles to worry about like with other cards. This card is in the compatibility list of the CNET driver from Aminet. I bought 5 cards recently from this guy. They arrived fine here in Canada. Thumbs up.
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: sir_inferno on February 17, 2004, 08:36:30 PM: oooooooo, you're spoling ryu's buisness :-D
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: spavatch on February 18, 2004, 11:36:06 AM: Now thats what call a hard choice :P. How about this one?
Will this one work with an ordinary A600HD?
http://www.allegro.pl/show_item.php?item=21287004
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: Ryu on February 18, 2004, 11:43:55 AM: yep that one will work fine with the 3com driver.

All mine are sold now anyway.
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: Linchpin on February 18, 2004, 11:58:58 AM: oooo good cards tho :-)

I got mine offa ebay.. cant remember the price.
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: dewolfjm on February 22, 2004, 01:27:40 PM: I too bought a PCMCIA ethernet card from eBay -- a Linksys Combo PCMCIA model. The software that came with it is all PC and Novell -- not an Amiga file in sight. What would you guys suggest for necessary software and where would it be put on the A1200 Workbench?
Title: Re: PCMCIA ethernet cards... again...
Post by: Linchpin on February 22, 2004, 01:33:44 PM: Ya need to find out if your card is compatible, and what driver supports it. I aint no expert on this, but for example mine is a Gray Cell II and it uses the cnet.device driver, i put the card in , click on the proggy and bingo it detects the card make, model, everything. Pretty neat. I dunno if your card is supported, is it a 100mbps card or 10mbps?