Help! PCMCIA card on A1200?

[dweomer]

Hi,

I've just picked up an A1200 and am upgrading piecemeal-- It's a replacement for my A2000HD which got flooded. It was a great MIDI machine when I had it at top form, but some of the chips went bad, so it became one of the projects I was "getting around to." Now it's down the river. Sigh.

These days I'm a cable modem junkie, but I never hooked the 2000 up to ethernet when I had it, so I'm a bit sketchy on the technical how-to.  I'm hoping that I can use a PCMCIA card that I already have to bring high bandwidth to the Amy.

I own 2 types: a Farallon Ethermac card and an older Megahertz EM1144T (combo 14.4 modem and 10baseT).  I checked the Ethermac in my old Powerbook, and it still functions, and the Megahertz was OK the last time I used it (eons ago on an old 386 laptop).

Will one of these cards work with the A1200? What specific files do I need to have, and where should I put them?

My apologies if I sound like a newbie, but I've been out of the Amiga scene for a while, so treat me like I'm ignorant. I'm not afraid to modify startup sequences or anything, though. It's good to have a real computer again.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

[dweomer]

I'm going to have to get one of the more compatible 3Com Etherlink III cards, I think. I've tinkered around with the settings with the Farallon plugged in and the device won't open under Miami. None of the potential strange crash/reset problems have manifested yet.

I'm pretty sure I'm configuring it right, since I've done a fair amount of this sort of thing on other platforms, and I've got my external modem dialing up Access-4-Free internet (which I highly recommend for dial-up in many US localities) without problems.

I've got a new problem now, but I should probably put it in another thread, to avoid confusion and duplicate messages. :-o

Thanks for the advice. I used to read the Compuserve Amiga forums regularly. It's nice to see that the Amiga community is still as helpful as ever.