A few handy tips:
-If you've ordered Amikit's EasyNet CD and don't have a CD drive for your Amiga, you could be tempted to think you could just copy the files from the CD to a CF card, plug it to your Amiga through the PCMCIA adapter and there you go! ... Well, not entirely true! If you're doing it through Windows some flags from the Amiga files could be lost in the process which is likely to cause troubles at later stages.
The "not so fast" but "really more secure" way is making an ISO image of the CD at your PC, copy it to the CF card, plug the card into your miggy and mount this image as a real Amiga device. I used Isomount for that, though any of the available diskimage devices at Aminet will do. Once mounted, just double click on the installer icon and let it do its job!
-Your LAN at home is likely to be using DHCP while your Amiga is likely not doing it save you installed some DHCP utilities (which have mixed reports: some people say they work fine and some other state they don't work at all). Workarounds this include configuring your LAN to work with fixed IPs (which is a pain nowadays) or being the lucky owner of a router that supports working with DHCP while simoultaneously having some IPs reserved for specific devices (usually using MAC numbers as identifiers). This last proved to be a life-saver in my case, as it works like a charm for going on-line with my 2 miggys at the same time.
-If you're using WIFI, your home LAN is likely to be using some modern security ciphering system as WPA2, while your Amiga is likely to be stuck at WEP. Either you are the lucky owner of a router which can work with both systems simoultaneously (which right now I don't even know if it exists!), have some workaround with several access points, or just downgrade your whole LAN to WEP, which is still a nice (but deprecated) security level anyway... provided you're sure none of your neighbours is a bad ugly evil hacker! :-)
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