Getting onto Broadband Internet: What am I doing wrong???

[AndyFC]

I have an NTL Home 200 cable modem, normally connected to my PC via Ethernet.

Work was throwing away some PCMCIA ethernet cards so I now have(all 3COM):

Etherlink III 3c562D/3C563D
Etherlink III 3c589D Combo
3COM Megahertz 3CCE589ET

I have OS 3.9 running on a DIY towered A1200, Blizzard 1230-IV with 32 MB Fast RAM, CD ROM, 600 MB HD too.

Using the 3c589 device from Aminet (which I would have thought would work with at least the second of the three listed cards) in Genesis, The wizard detects the cards but does not get a BootP answer. With the 3c589D, if I manually enter an IP, DNS, gateway etc I get an ethernet activity light on the cable modem, but then if I go into AWeb2 (the version supplied with OS 3.9) I cannot view any online web pages - the error is the same as if I have no internet connection at all.

I have powered off my modem and back on when it was plugged into teh Amiga because I read somewhere that it caches the MAC address of the adapter it is connected to, but this will clear if it is turned off for 10 seconds.

Am I missing something, or am I still using incompatible cards?

Thanks for your help, Andy

[AndyFC]

Thanks for the feedback.

I currently use Genesis, so do I need to change to Miami or something for DHCP to work with Ethernet?

Is it possible for Genesis to get an IP via DHCP, not BootP?

I'll have another crack at it now, and double-check the Proxy settings in Aweb.

The ethernet cards (or at least one of them) is A1200 compatible then?

Networking seemed so easy when I studied it for my Micro$oft cetification :-)

[AndyFC]

OK - I can't see an option for DHCP in Genesis with Ethernet, so I'll try Miami and see how I get on with that.

Miami has a few more tools such as Ping so I can at least test the network connection before I try something like getting a web browser to work.

Aweb-II SE settings seem OK.