DENEB USB Questions

[Kernel]

Since I'm just finding my way back onto this scene, I'm trying to build up my A3000 system and need to look at all the options.  Can someone comment on the following questions as I've not been able to find all the information I've been looking for by searching the Googlenet...

1) Is the DENEB card still manufactured/available?

2) Any known issues with using external USB hubs with these?

3) Anyone with one of these ever used an external CD/DVD drive on it?

Thanks!

[Kernel]

For those of you with the external CD drives... you can confirm that the DENEB can be used with them if they require both ports (one data, one power)?

I was looking for a drive that used A/C power but am having a hard time.  If the card can power the drive by using both ports then I'm fine with that.  I'm going to try to find a powered hub that will work anyhow.

[Kernel]

Perfect - thanks for the quick responses guys!

Ordering shortly.

[Kernel]

We have Deneb USB in stock and available now:

http://www.amigakit.us/product_info.php?products_id=795

Hope this helps!

Wow.  You really need to put an expected date on your page when you are out of stock.  I've been watching it like a hawk these past few days and I ended up ordering from Versalia earlier today because you were still listed as out of stock.  I guess I could still cancel that since I have not paid it yet - need other things I was gonna order from you anyhow so I'll save a bit if I go that route.

[Kernel]

Ok AmigaKit, don't let me down.  I just shifted the order for the DENEB to you.  I'm still getting something from Vesalia so it's really a win-win situation for us all.

[Kernel]

Wow!  AmigaKit has fast delivery over the ocean!

I just received my DENEB (ordered Friday) and a few other things from them, plus I'm starting to receive other stuff for my venture from other sources such as my USB DVD-RW and SCSI 80/50 adapters.

Soon I'll have my hands back into the thick of things...

[Kernel]

Well, I just installed the WD8 Chip and 16MB Fast RAM... gonna wait to install the DENEB though as I need to replace the HD an want to do a clean 3.1 install first.  Waiting on the SCSI 80-50 adapter - we'll see if it gets here tomorrow...

[Kernel]

Ok got the card installed, had to install Installer and move it to ZII mode and then install MUI for trident; it apparently recognizes my Network dongle and the DVD-RW however I'm unsure how to actually use them!  Any hints for a noob?

EDIT: got the DVD-RW working!  Looked in the Trident message log and found device and unit to use woo hoo!

[Kernel]

Thanks - finally got the dongle working!  I'm using EasyNet from AmigaKit and for some reason it kept balking on the device.  I had to manually go in and set it to usbpegasus.device in the easynet.cfg file and it started working.

I cna ping to it and form it, but I cannot seem to get Amiga Explorer running properly.  It starts up in TCP/IP mode, I set the packet size to 32768 on both ends, made sure the password was correct, and even opened up port 356 in amiTCP (it logs that it accepted the connection) but I get "unable to access TCPIP port" on the PC side.

I'd say this was a pain but I'm having fun.

[Kernel]

I'll definately check that in the AM.

Question... is the starting graphic for the DENEB supposed to look like it was chizled/rotting away from the screen?  It almost looks like something is wrong with my display but then again, it could be done like that on purpose.

[Kernel]

Where would I find the firmware version?  I looked in the utils but perhaps I missed it?