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Offline spirantho

Re: Open PCI
« on: July 18, 2008, 11:07:22 AM »
Is your Prometheus firmware upgraded to support DMA?

If it isn't, you may have trouble with OpenPCI (not really tried it) and you certainly won't get anywhere with cards that require DMA (such as sound cards, 100baseT network cards etc.)
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Offline spirantho

Re: Open PCI
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2008, 01:58:53 PM »
The 8039 card is 10/100MBit, so it needs DMA (10MBit cards don't, 100MBit ones do).

Hence why it's not working, probably.

I have an 8029 and a Voodoo III in my A4000 Prometheus, apart from the Catweasel I'm not sure what else works in it (maybe USB 1 cards might)
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Offline spirantho

Re: Open PCI
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2008, 02:44:28 PM »
There is, but you have to ask Michael Boehmer really nicely and then he might be able to help, but you need to send it away to be flashed. He's on the forums somewhere (certainly on other Amiga sites, probably here too), usually under the monker mboehmer_e3b or something I think.

Even then though it won't work in OS 4 (which is why in the end I didn't bother).
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