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Offline outlawal2Topic starter

Gurunet (plipbox) Purchased from Amiga On The Lake
« on: December 01, 2019, 01:15:25 AM »
So I ordered a Gurunet Parallel nic for my A3000 from AOTL.  As I understand it this is a Plipbox compatible Nic.
I open the package and there is one floppy (That I assume is an Amiga floppy) and the device.

Absolutely ZERO documentation. Nothing on the disk nothing in the box absolutely NOTHING.

Now I get it that this is hardware for a 30 year+ obsolete platform but WTF? No documentation of any kind seriously?
And of course on the AOTL site they provide a link to some guy that supposedly provides an amazingly detailed install procedure but in usual Amiga style the friggin link does not work. 

So I tried going to the home page of said site and it works but the owner has apparently completely removed any mention of the Gurunet from his site.

Does anyone have any documentation on how to setup this thing?  (And please refrain from the "Oh it's easy just set it up in Miami" or some such other non helpful statement as I (and pretty much anyone else) require step by step instructions as this is 30 year old tech.

Please advise
 ???
 

Offline outlawal2Topic starter

Re: Gurunet (plipbox) Purchased from Amiga On The Lake
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2019, 11:32:35 PM »
Thanks guys I think that may be what I needed
THANK YOU!

KOLLA:
What I was expecting was SOMETHING, anything, and the PDF provided by ToddH would have gone a LONG way toward making me happy.

It is nice to have some idea what you are supposed to do with a piece of hardware..

Thanks again guys
 

Offline outlawal2Topic starter

Re: Gurunet (plipbox) Purchased from Amiga On The Lake
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2019, 06:27:48 PM »
Good catch on that Kolla. (I was just going to respond back with that but you beat me to it.)

As I understand it you WILL have conflicts as they are all shipped with the same MAC address so be sure to change it in Roadshow if you are using more than one.
And thanks Dynamic I may check that out next week

I hope to have Roadshow and Plipbox installed and working by then but so far I have had no luck..
We shall see!
 

Offline outlawal2Topic starter

Re: Gurunet (plipbox) Purchased from Amiga On The Lake
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2019, 05:10:47 PM »
OK I have successfully installed my Plipbox and Roadshow and have a working network connection to my Amiga!
I was really thinking that the Plipbox/Roadshow combination was really difficult to get up and running because I was having zero luck!

What I found is that they are not very difficult at all once I had some documentation, but the real issue I had is that the Plipbox requires an external power source using the same power cord as you would find on a Raspberry PI.  Fine, I have several RPIs so I grabbed one and here is where the real issue showed up.  Turns out the connector was slightly bent and now has a nasty short, so I plugged it in but was getting no power to the device.  Once I replaced the cord with a good one simply follow the configuration instructions and all is well.

Next will be to download Ibrowse and SSL and see if I can get the browser working.

I did load a nice free program from Cloanto called Amiga Explorer and that is a great little tool similar to VNC in that it allows you to connect to the Amiga from a Windows box.  Installed that and configured and now I can easily drag and drop files to my Amiga from my home network.

VERY nice.. 
Thanks for the help guys.