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Re: A1200 going online
« on: December 09, 2011, 11:58:43 PM »
I'm kind of curious about this as well, as I've just acquired a 1200 with a PCMCIA Ethernet card I'd like to set up. I don't have a CD drive installed, and I'd rather not try to jury-rig one if I don't have to; how simple is it to copy things over via floppy from a PC just enough to get the initial setup done?
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Re: A1200 going online
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 05:12:02 PM »
Ah, Cammy to the rescue!

As far as AmiTCP vs. MiamiDX goes, how much lighter is AmiTCP supposed to be? What's the general memory/CPU use for either?
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Re: A1200 going online
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 04:23:32 AM »
Huh, ~1.5MB shouldn't be a problem, I've got 32MB in there now. However, I can't seem to get it working; I've got MiamiDX all installed (can't figure out how to use the keyfiles to register, though,) but it doesn't seem to be talking to the network correctly. I've got the driver for the PCMCIA LAN card installed (3c589.device, it's an Etherlink III 3c589D-TP,) I've got it set up to use DHCP, but it doesn't seem to do anything; the little 10BaseT light on the card dongle doesn't even come on, nor does the corresponding port light on the router. Is there some step I'm missing in configuring the hardware?
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

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