Can I buy any given PCMCIA Ethernet card for my A1200?

[chris]

There are two types that work: The first (edit) I've just been beaten to mentioning and the 3COM model #3C589 ones (eg. Etherlink III).  I have a 3Com one which works perfectly well with the 3c589 driver available on Aminet.

Chris

[chris]

One of these appear to be the current compatible 3Com ones although I'm sure you can get cheaper cards elsewhere (or second hand).

I've just realised the second part of the question was never answered.  You also need a TCP/IP stack such as Miami, it is fairly simple to set Miami up to use an Ethernet card.

Chris

[chris]

My A1200 030@40 managed 238KB/s on a test file using Samba with a 3Com Megahertz 589.

This works out to 1.9Mbps for a 10Mbps card, which isn't quite so impressive. It is much faster than a serial cable though :-)

Chris

[chris]

If you are just connecting to shares on Windows machines and not planning on sharing out Amiga drives, the easiest thing to do is download SMBFS.

It took me a while to get Samba proper running, IIRC it refused to work because I had a mismatch of hostnames within Samba config and Miami.

Chris

[chris]

ncafferkey wrote:
so the limit is probably around 10 Mbytes/s

10 Mbits/s - which is 1.25 Mbytes/s

Chris