Not Happy with the Xsurf

[patrik]

@THEWASP:

Getting the X-Surf card to work using your existing Workbench 2.1 it is not impossible... Ofcourse, some things you wont be able to do with Workbench 2.1, but most things can be done although in some cases with some limitations imposed.

My suggestion is to try one of the available demo versions of either Miami or Genesis.

First download LhA 1.38 which is a self extracting archive containing the LhA archiver/extractor.

As both Miami and Genesis relies on a gui-library called "MUI" you must have it first (I know Miami can be made run with other gui-libraries ). Download MUI 3.8, extract it with the LhA mentioned above and then install it via the "Install-MUI" icon found in the directory extraced from the archive.

If you choose Miami, download:
Miami 3.2b2 main archive
Miami 3.2b2 68020+ archive
Miami 3.2b2 MUI archive

Then extract those archives to the same destination and install it via the "Install_Miami" icon found in the directory extracted from the archives.

If you choose Genesis, download:
Genesis 1.04 demo

Then extract this archive and install it via the "Install" icon found un the directory extracted from the archives.

I have never used a X-surf card, but I downloaded the driver archive for it from Individual Computers. In the devs directory of the drivers you find some files named x-surf.device0x0. You should copy the file corresponding to your cpu (in your case, assuming you have a standard A3000 - x-surf.device020) to DEVS:Networks/x-surf.device

I guess there are many questions unaswered to get the TCP/IP stack of your choice up and running, but you should atleast get a bit on the way with this.

Good luck!


/Patrik

[patrik]

@THEWASP:

As the X-surf install script doesnt seem to work I suggest that you do the required steps manually. I dont have access to the X-surf CD, but I downloaded the X-Surf drivers from Individual Computers homepage.

These drivers should ofcourse exist on your cd somewhere, but as I dont have access to that cd I am using these X-Surf drivers I downloaded as a base for the manual installation instructions. To install the drivers correctly, first extract the archive. After the archive is extracted start an Amiga-Shell (also known as CLI) and change directory to where you extracted the archive. Now type these three lines in the Amiga-Shell:
1. copy devs/x-surf.device020 devs:networks/x-surf.device
2. makedir envarc:sana2
3. copy x-surf.config envarc:sana2/

After this is done and all disk-activity has finished - reboot your machine.

If the previous steps were done correctly, the X-Surf drivers are now installed and ready to use.

Now Miami needs some configuration. Click away to the directory where you installed Miami start the guided configuration via the icon "MiamiInit". Before you continue I urge you to read the instructions given in MiamiInit for each step thoroughly. At the first step just press "Continue". At the second step choose "other SANA-II driver" from the list and press "Continue". Now at the third step you will get to choose device for the X-Surf. In the "Device" field you shall write "devs:networks/x-surf.device". Now when you press "Continue" MiamiInit will try to determine a lot of things about your network automaticly. If your network cant give this information to MiamiInit, just press "Skip" on those requesters and enter the correct information. When you are finished with all the steps of MiamiInit, it should have created a MiamiInit.config file for you in the Miami: directory. Now start Miami via the "Miami" icon. It should ask you if you want to import the MiamiInit.config file settings. If it doesnt, use the menu "Settings->Import From MiamiInit V3" to import the settings from the MiamiInit.config file.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@THEWASP:

You could always place an ad to buy a registration second hand.


/Patrik