Help! I'm trying to connect my A1200 to the net

[dougal]

Ok ,

I have a 3com amiga compatible PCMCIA network card .

Its connected and found etc.. etc...

I have Genesis (which came with OS3.9) .

My Network card is connected to my router .

I am trying to setup a connection but it doesnt want to work for me .

I am trying to set it up using GenesisWizardRA .

Connection type - I select Network
Networking Device - I set 3c589.device
Sana II configuration - I select NO (Asks if i need a special config)
IP-Address (Do you know your local Ip?) - I DONT KNOW THE ANSWER , i tried the ip address of my router and the same for router (didnt work) ... should i say NO ? or where can i get it?

Once all that is done , i open up GenesisRA and select the connection and click online . It lights up green and says i am connected , but A-Web says i have no connection :S

Please somebody help me step by step ... id really appreciate that .
(Sorry for the long description)

[dougal]

Genesis doesn support dhcp "automated ip" could say

Here is one solution

http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/dhcp_amitcp

OR

You could setup static ip, if you have windows machine in you home network, open command promt and type: IPCONFIG /ALL

If you have private network (it means that you can use static ip) you get something like this

192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x where x is number 1-255

If you get anything else you must use DHCP

But let suppose that you have private ips

You need gateway, dns server, subnet mask and of course ip for your amiga.

Lets suppose that your PC gets ip 192.168.0.16 you could quite safety suppose that you could use ip addres like 192.168.0.101

Keep 3 first octets same 192.168.0.x and pick last wich is quite far from ip addres wich you PC use. Any number between 3-253 is acceptable

I did as you said ... went into command prompt and it said my IP is 192.168.1.64 .

I entered 192.168.1.200 into genesis but it still doesn't work

[dougal]

192.168.1.200 probably good choise.

What else ipconfig did tell you?? What is gateway ip or dns ip? Subnet mask is probably 255.255.255.0

You need to enter them too

IP:           192.168.1.64
Subnet :    255.255.255.0
Gateway:   192.168.1.254
DHCP Server: Same as above (192.168.1.254)
DNS Servers:  Same as above (192.168.1.254)

[dougal]

what is the model of your router?
usually if your pc gets 192.168.1.64 the router's ip must be 192.168.1.254
this number you will use as the gateway in genesis settings.
you must set the subnet mask too which must be 255.255.255.0
and of course you must set the dns which is the same as gateway.
the 192.168.1.200 is a good ip to set for your amiga IF all the other settings i said are valid.
try and tell us.

Cool !! That worked . My A1200 is now online and working

Thanks guys , all of you for your help . As usual , the best place is amiga.org .