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Offline pVC

Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« on: March 17, 2011, 07:31:40 AM »
Quote from: carvedeye;622334
Well i am running AmigaOS 3.9 and have installed genesis etc I have uploaded a video to show how i am trying to configure it and hope you guys can help :)  here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRNV7-n_q4


1. Device and unit are OK.

2. You don't need special configuration, so you should select "No" to that.

3. Unable to open device might be either because of the PCMCIA reset bug on A1200 or you haven't executed the SetPrism2Defaults command with correct options in s:user-startup or from shell before trying to use.

Quick and dirty fix for reset bug for one session would be to hotswap the card (unplug+plug while computer is turned on) and then execute correct SetPrism2Defaults command.

For permanent use check CardReset and CardPatch commands in Aminet. And have SetPrism2Defaults in s:user-startup.

4. You have to know your local IP-address and enter it manually in the config.

Basically you must know unique IP-address you're going to use for Amiga (first three numbers same as on your other computers, but last number different than on other computers), netmask (same on all computers on your network), gateway (same on all your computers in your lan, usually the IP-address of the router) and nameserver (usually same on all your computers, might be the address of your router).

So, check your other computers settings to retrieve the needed info, if you don't know it already.

5. If you're unsure of the software issues, you might first try to get your Amiga online with this. When you get it working, you know everything is OK hardware wise and you can then start thinking what is wrong in your software setup.
« Last Edit: March 17, 2011, 07:42:30 AM by pVC »
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Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2011, 02:52:54 PM »
Quote from: carvedeye;622623
Right heres what i havwe done so far i have added both cardreset and cardpatch to the c: directory and i also added it to the starup sequence i type the commands into the shell like this, if i have done this wrong please correct me.


C:SetPrism2Defaults SSID KEY <10 hex key>
C:CardPatch
C:CardReset

I then tryed running genesis again but there is no difference.


Put CardPatch and CardReset before SetPrism2Defaults.

I myself have used it this way:

first lines in S:startup-sequence file are:
C:cardpatch
C:cardreset force

first line in S:user-startup file is:
SetPrism2Defaults SSID xxxxx KEY xxxx-xxxx-xx

I guess they all could be in user-startup too, but use fixes first.

Check also which encryption your network card supports. Some cards might support 128bit WEP, some only 64bit WEP and some no ecryption at all. For example Orinoco cards are common and its Gold version supports 128-bit WEP while Silver version supports 64-bit WEP.

Do the leds on the card flash around the time when CardPatch/Reset are executed?

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well i decided to start a fresh install of amigaos 3.9 so i can start from scratch i will let you all know how i get on


Uhh.. this situation wouldn't have needed that :) You should have rather learnt some basics about AmigaOS. AmigaOS structure is so clean that you are never advised to reinstall the system. I for example have base installation from 1993 in my main A1200 even though I've heavily upgraded and updated it both hardware and software wise :) It's much more trouble to reinstall everything to fresh system than find the problem and fix only that.
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Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2011, 04:59:24 PM »
Quote from: carvedeye;622842
Could you possibly give me a step by step as what i need to do, do i run the commands through shell or do i edit the startup files directly sorry but im hopeless with workbench.
where exactly do i enter these commands in the startup lists?


You either run those commands in shell OR add them to startup scripts to be run automatically on each reboot. If you run them on shell, you have to do it after every reboot, which isn't very practical.

To run them on startup scripts you have to edit corresponding startup script with a text editor and add those lines manually.

Startup scripts reside in SYS:S/ directory, but it can be accessed more shortly with S: assign.

If you don't have better text editor installed, you can edit them with ED (bit clumsy default editor).

Open shell (from WB or press ramiga-e and type "cli"). Type "ed s:user-startup" to open editor with user-startup script file. Simple try would be to add all those earlier mentioned lines at the beginning of the file before other commands in that file. Each entry for its own line.

When it looks like this for example:
C:cardpatch
C:cardreset force
C:SetPrism2Defaults SSID xxxxx KEY xxxx-xxxx-xx
+other earlier lines on the file

Press "ESC" and "x" and "Enter" to save the file.

Reboot to take them in use.

I'm not 100% sure if those cardpatch/reset lines work on user-startup and that close to the SetPrism2Defaults etc or should they be executed in very early stage as I've done for some reason I can't remember anymore, so if it looks like it, you could add them to S:startup-sequence instead with similar way by editing the files.
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Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2011, 02:23:52 PM »
Quote from: carvedeye;623360
Well i have given up, i just simply cannot get it to work i have edited the startup 3 times now and each time i edited it i ended up having to do a clean install of AOS 3.9
so if anyone would like to make me an offer for the wireless card then fell free to PM me.


Did you have pccard.library in LIBS:?
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Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2011, 10:53:07 AM »
And for WEP, on router settings authentication has to be open system, not shared key. Even when you use encryption key for transfer. Just been playing with different setups...
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Re: Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2011, 02:28:59 PM »
Quote from: carvedeye;659708
No? Where would i get hold of that?


Inside prism2.lha archive.
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