A600 and 3c589 NIC

[leofoe]

My A600 freezes upon starting AmiTCP when the 3COM 3c589 NIC is in the PCMCIA port. Started SnoopDOS and turned out to be hanging on the pccard.library. Tried a different 3c589: same problem. Tried the 3c589 in an A1200: works fine.
The A600 works OK with a wireless Orinoco NIC. Someone got an A600 going with a 3Com?

[leofoe]

A1200: KS 40.68 WB 40.42 (both 3.1)
A600: KS 40.63 WB 40.42 (both 3.1)
I suppose all lib versions are the same. Installed all from the same floppies.

Edit: The A1200 has a Blizzard 1230 IV with 8MB RAM.

[leofoe]

 :bump:

[leofoe]

Card_info works OK. Output:
3Com Corporation 3C589D TP/BNC LAN Card Ver. 2a
Appears to be a Network card
CCR Offset address (24 bit) = $01000, Config ID = $01
Interface Type 1, uses:
Getting I/O memory now - remove card if system freezes!
Saving data to t:card_info.bin
card_info done.

[leofoe]

It does work with an Orinoco. On the A1200 it works also with AmiTCP. So I can't imagine anything is wrong with AmiTCP.

[leofoe]

 :bump:
There has to someone who has an A600 with 3Com NIC running...

[leofoe]

The A600 has 2MB chipram only. Could this be the problem?
But why does the wireless card work fine? Is the prism2.device less memory hungry?