A1200 PCMCIA NIC card - netgear fa411

[darksun9210]

morning all,
in throwing away all my junk mail, i found an offer for Sky Broadband. 16Mb hook up. Great! i only have a 10Mb wired connection on my A1200. not so great.
anyway, trawling through the forums, i found someone say they had got a Netgear fa411 PCMCIA 100Mb NIC card working with cnet.device. 100Mb networking juicyness! wonderfull!

anyway, i couldn't remember who had said it was working, or the forum thread name, just that it was a netgear FA411. that much was burnt into my tiny little mind.
so i ordered one on friday.
it arrived today.
it doesn't work.

i have installed cardpatch, cardreset, the latest version of cnet.device v1.9b1, configured amiTCP to use the cnet16.device, as mentioned on the below website, torn my A1200 to bits. still no work  :-(  have i bought a duff card?
GMB amiga compatability list tells me it works, i've seen someone on a forum say it works, card info tells me it is a fast ethernet device, prepcard tells me the same, the lights work. i must be missing something?

currently reduced system spec:-
A1200 1D4 mobo, Blizzard 1230IV, scsi kit, IDE fix-express, lots of ram, IDE disk, IDE Cd-rom, with a fresh 3.9+BB1&BB2 install

tested cards:-
Ethernet Gold II GCS2220 10Mb - working
Netgear MA401 wireless 11Mb - working
Netgear FA411 100/10Mb - non working

AHHHHHHHHHH  :crazy: i prostrate myself before the you gods of technology asking for mercy  :-)

feel free to point out my stupidity :lol:

[darksun9210]

well, the FA411 doesn't have a dongle, so i'm guessing that wasn't the one

dayum. maybe i'll try with my PPC card. oh well, the quest continues. i did read somewhere that the FA411 isn't completely NE2000 complient, possibly hence the problems? what did puzzle me was the availability of a amiga M68K linux driver over a standard amiga driver!

the search goes boldly onwards. Thanks for your replies guys, i'll keep trying. maybe someone that has it working can let us know the secret  :-D

[darksun9210]

i just get a requester when i try to start amiTCP that the card isn't cardreset compatable? i'll try to explore this further, but i've so far spent the day laying wood flooring, and there is a beer in the fridge with my name on it. so it'll have to wait

Thanks again,
Andy.

[darksun9210]

just a quick update. one of the guys developing cnet.device
very kindly sent me a beta of what he was working on.
i am now online at the moment with a netgear FA411,
with a 100Mb connection to my router.

WOOOHOO!

[darksun9210]

meh, well, its not so much that i won't get much more than 10Mb, but at least its not the network connection speed holding it back...

as for the overclocked 060, we'll see - if Amiga Centre France will be kind enough (while crossing their palms with silver) to solder the 060 chip i have to my PPC, plus solder the other relevant jumpers and traces  :-D
but no response to my request as of yet..   :-(