got my wireless card now questions

[mechy]

How much do you know about your Wireless LAN?
Is your wireless network secured with WEP or WPA?
Is your wireless network setup to support 802.11b devices?

Amigas don't have much bandwidth so your network, wireless or otherwise will pretty much be limited to around 10Mbps. Adding WEP encryption will slow it down some more.

There are also drawbacks to having an 802.11b (11Mbps) device on your router as with most chipsets/firmware the entire wireless (2.4GHz) network slows down to accommodate the older protocol.

What I did is I bought an old 802.11g/b wireless router on eBay and set it to 802.11b mode only. I did not use WEP or any type of security as it is a bit of a hit & miss with Amiga OS 3.x software. I secured it using MAC address access list which will only allow the network devices I enter.

Unfortunately, networking on the Amiga has never been easy, mostly because network technology keeps moving forward and the Amiga doesn't.

But once you set it up you'll never need to deal with it again. At least until the hardware fails.

i beg to differ, i can set up any network with any compatible card on the amiga is less than 5 minutes in most cases-especially with miamidx. The problem is people usually don't get compatible hardware,the right drivers,or fix the card reset bugs etc.
Rarely do they even take the time to read the docs. If you know something about networking/wireless networking it is usually straight forward. People often insist on buying cheap brand routers and hardware with buggy firmware and run into trouble. I would say 80% of the people i have helped with networking problems over the last 15+ years were because they simply were too lazy to read the docs.

[mechy]

well  so  many  responses  ..and opinions ..i did sorta work out what it was asking me ..router  info  i didnt have...so i decided to try to see if it would accept settings from my mobile broadband on my laptop ..which it did ..but im  not sure they are right ...ill work it out  ..as u all realized networking  isnt  my high point..i did check my startup sequence  already put  cardreset card patch  in there when i was playing  with a different card ..ive  worked out  everything  else on computers  just  need  to  read up on what im doing....couple  good  bits info  here  too  thanks  for  that ..

You will never get anywhere guessing. You need to log into your router and find out ifyou are using WEP,WPA or WPA2 .
Then get the SSID,Password etc and then add the line to the startup-sequence like SOM99 suggested above:

C:SetPrism2Defaults SSID "YOUR SSID HERE" KEY "your WEP/WPA key here"

without the quotes of course.

then you should be on your way to get everything else setup.