networking card... which way to go

[Darrin]

I have tried two different voodoo 3 PCI cards and more recently a Voodoo 5500 PCI card and I can't seem to get anything to work.
I will try PCIinfo and see what it says.

Have you downloaded the latest drivers from Elbox?

Concentrate on getting the graphics card working first and then install the other stuff.  Also, make sure the jumpers on your Mediator are set correctly.  I had hell getting my A4000 and Mediator working until Elbox pointed out that I had a jumper set wrongly.  Also, try emailing Elbox.  They were a great help to me even though my tower and Mediator were "second hand".

[Darrin]

If it were me, I'd go with a Zorro III USB card.  Hook your ethernet into that.  That gives you pretty much all other forms of connectivity: network, hell, even 16 bit sound, scanners, mice, keyboards, external storage of all stripes, printers and, of course, networking.

Fewer points of failure anyway.

Shame they're no longer being made.  I'm going to hang on to my Deneb until I die.  

I should point out that I have a PCI USB card working in my Mediator now as well as the Deneb.  I've got way more USB slots than devices!  I also use a USB-Ethernet dongle for the internet.

[Darrin]

You might want to find the latest P96 drivers and install them.

I haven't installed a Voodoo card on my Mediator, but in the case of my Radeon card I had to use the latest P96, install the updated driver package from Ebox's website, copy the CV64 monitor driver into DEVS, rename it, run P96 and then create my screenmodes.

[Darrin]

I seem to recall having this issue when I first plugged a Radeon into my Mediator.  IIRC I had set a jumper on my Mediator board wrong.

I'll dig through the emails I received from Elbox and see if I can find the solution...

[Darrin]

OK, found the correct emails.  Remember, this was for the 256MB Radeon card, but the principle should be similar.

In short, they told me to do the following (and this seems to be what you did):



#1:  Install the Picasso96 graphic system following its documentation.  Choose Cybervison 64 3D as the graphic card.  

(I installed P96 2.1c package)

#2:  After the Picasso96 installation, start Picasso96 installation once again and choose the "Update an installed version".  Select only "Monitorsettings" and choose the frequency supported by your monitor.  

#3:  After successful installation you need to:
 
a:  Find the CVision3D and CVision3D.info in the DEVS:Monitor drawer, rename these files to Radeon and Radeon.info  respectively.

b:  Change in the tool type window of Radeon.icon:
     BOARDTYPE = from CVision3D to Radeon.

c:  Copy the enclosed Radeon.card driver to the Libs:Picasso96 drawer.  

(I copied the one from the 1.33 package)

d:  Double click on the Radeon icon (in Devs:Monitors drawer).

e:  Start the Picasso96Mode program (in SYS:Prefs drawer) and select:
    Attach setting to Board0: Radeon.
    Exit Picasso96Mode by SAVE.

This is where my setup failed and I got "NO BOARD" reported, which seems to be the same problem you have.

I then used the MedConfig program to dump an error log, emailed it to them and they sent this back:

Thank you for the MedConfig report.
You have not updated drivers (running quick install script) from MM CD 1.33.

Copy
http://elbox.com/download/newest/pci.library to Libs:
http://elbox.com/download/newest/Radeon.card to Libs:Picasso96
http://elbox.com/download/newest/sb128.audio to Devs:AHI
and all should start to work.

It seemed that the old installer wasn't putting the new files where it should.  After manually copying them I got the Radeon to show up in P96.

However, the card still didn't work, but they also spotted this:

Your Radeon card cannot work because you have wrongly setting of the WINSIZE jumper on the Mediator Core Logic board.
This jumper has to be closed (set to 512 MB, not 256 MB).

Change it and your Radeon will start working with pci.libarry 8.1 and with 9.0 (with added memory).

So, make sure you change the tooltype for the monitor icon (4b), try manually copying the correct files for your card into the various folders mentioned (libs:  &  Libs:Picasso98) and finally try playing with the WINSIZE jumper.

[Darrin]

Thanks Darren for looking up that email.  I started doing it last night and will finish tonight.
Question:  About those jumpers... using a voodoo card is there a particular jumper arrangement I should be looking for or should I maybe just try it both ways?
Also you mentioned that even when you had the jumper in the wrong position the jump still showed up in picasso96mode attach menu right?  I still have never seen the card appear in that menu... but scanpci saw something at some point.
The last time I ran scanpci now after the re-install of everything it seems to go into some kind of loop.  printing the same message on the cli over and over again.  Can't break it actually, I eventually have to reboot.   Not sure if you have ever seen something like this.
-Dan

I bought my Mediator off eBay, so to be honest I have no documentation on the jumpers.

I also never saw the card initially, but then it appeared after I did the first set of things above.

Personally, I got my Mediator up and running after installing the OS3.9 version of ClassicWB, adding the Internet stuff of the OS3.9 CD and applying BB1 & BB2.

[Darrin]

Here's another idea for you.  While I was waiting for my Radeon to arrive, I put in a "no-brand" ViRGE 1MB garphics card pulled from an old Pentium 1 PC.  I followed the instructions for installing the ViRGE and it worked fine.  I also tried another "no-name" ViRGE card and it worked with no tinkering.  If you have one of these relics lying around then it might at least show that the Mediator is working OK.