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Offline Matt_H

Re: I am looking for a WiFi PCMCIA for A1200
« on: November 17, 2012, 05:06:14 AM »
Any USB ethernet dongle you use will be wired - there's no wireless ethernet USB driver for the Amiga (yet?). Because that's the case, you might as well consider a wired PCMCIA ethernet solution as well. That gets you around the WPA issue, too. At any rate, take a look at the documentation for the wireless PCMCIA driver for details on compatible cards. 3c589.device is one of the wired PCMCIA drivers and cnet.device is the other.

For USB, I've used this and this and this with my Algor and Deneb USB cards. They should all work with the Subway, too, but from what I've heard USB ethernet through the Subway is quite slow due to the bottleneck of the clockport. You'll probably get better results from PCMCIA ethernet.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: I am looking for a WiFi PCMCIA for A1200
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 06:12:02 AM »
Check the driver docs to see what's compatible. You can also get one from Amigakit. Theirs is a little more expensive than what you might pay if you were to find one on eBay, but it's guaranteed to be compatible. I think dodging the hassle of tracking down a compatible card from another source is well worth the price difference. Plus you get their EasyNet software.

Yes, I expect that wireless bridge should work with any wired ethernet source, no driver required. You'll probably need a PC to set it up, though. I actually use a Linksys WRT54G router (with replacement firmware) as a hub and de facto wireless bridge. Plenty of ports, but difficult to configure, and some hardware revisions aren't compatible with the replacement firmware.