Amiga 1200 and Genius PCMCIA Network Card

[yilez]

I bought a PCMCIA Network card and I am not sure how to get it working.

The card is listed here: http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html

It is the Genius ME3000II.

Apparantly it works with cnet.device (which I copied to devs:network). I fired up miamidx, and tried setting it up by adding the hardware, then setting up the interface and then pressing 'go online', or whatever the button is. I don't really remember.

Anyway, it says "going online" next to the interface, and then locks up. I can't even move my mouse. It stays like this until I either removed the card, or turn off the power to the amiga (pressing the 3 keys doesn't work.).

Any ideas?

according to the site above, it works. It does mention the gayle reset fix, but I have no idea what this is.

I did try installing cardpatch and cardreset, and adding them to the startup sequence, but I don't know if I'm doing that right.

Thanks in advance.

[yilez]

I'll have a look through my settings again. I had set it up with a static IP, so I'll try DHCP and see if that helps.

I am connecting to a router. I'll draw a little picture of my network for you.

Printer -----\

Amiga ----- Switch ----- Router ----- Internet

NAS   _____/

[yilez]

Ok, Thanks.

I'll try that tonight.

 :-D

[yilez]

Right, I have just tried again, and it isn't working.

I noticed that there is a card info tool in the cnet.device download, and that freezes when I try and use it. It even says "If the system freezes, remove the card" as though it is expected.

The card IS in the compatibility list as being working. I'd rather not mess about soldering on the amiga motherboard - I will ruin my computer. The card reset tool should be a software alternative, shouldn't it?

Is there anything else I can try?

[yilez]

I tried different version of the cnet.device driver. Not all of them, but the only ones I haven't tried are the A600 and old versions. I'll give an old version a go.

I will also try using the card reset parameters suggested. Before I was just calling them without any parameters.

The PSU I'm using is from an A500. I heard they were better due to the higher wattage. I'm also using an 030 with 4MB of fast ram. I have tried removing it, but I still get the issue.

If I can't get it working today, I think I'll resign myself to thinking that the card is broken.