Hooking up to the internet

[diamondgeezer]

As an old A500 user I'm quite impressed with a recently acquired A1200 ('030, CD, large HD) and I'd like to connect it to the internet.

My research tells me that the Ethernet Gold II PCMCIA card I bought on ebay is cnet.device compatible and that I need TCP/IP software that can handle the dynamic IP allocation my broadband provider (ntl) uses (DHCP I'm almost certain). This probably means Miami.

I plan to:
a) install cnet.device
b) plug in the PC card & configure cnet.device to use the card
c) install Miami & configure to use cnet.device
d) plug in the ethernet feed from NTL

In order to use NTL's broadband any  NIC needs to be registered online (probably with the MAC). In fact the reg page is the only page that is sent back (regardless of address) until this is done.

Phew! I'm not a techie although I love to play with SAS/C and AmigaTeX (Turrican II isn't bad either). My question is: have I missed anything?

[diamondgeezer]

Erm...the MAC (or Ethernet) address is the individual number built-in to network cards - this allows your card (rather than your computer) to be uniquely addressed. I'm wondering if this might be an issue with my Gold card?

[diamondgeezer]

Thanks for you input. Does any one know how I can get a copy of Miami?

[diamondgeezer]

I suppose we should change thread now as this has become a discussion about software but ... I've heard about something called Roadshow. It's supposed to be a TCP/IP stack that can handle DHCP etc. but seems to be linked to OS4. Any info?

[diamondgeezer]

That's nice to know. Only thing now is to locate a copy :-? .