Trying to get my A1200 online...

[commodorejohn]

Well, I got a replacement Ethernet card (3COM 3C589-D) for my A1200, and there's some progress - now it can get an IP and ping the router without any trouble. However, it can't ping to outside IP addresses or resolve host names. (MiamiDX is set to use DHCP.) I tried plugging it directly into the DSL modem, but that doesn't work at all (don't know if the one Charter uses even supports 10Base-T.) There's no filtering on the router that should be causing any issues, and I don't see any immediately obvious problems with MiamiDX's settings - any idea what I can do to get this working?

[commodorejohn]

Gateway for the router is listed as "link#3", and Flags is "UC".

[commodorejohn]

Okay, ran MiamiInit again. According to the log, it's talking to the DHCP server fine, and even gets IPs for the DNS servers - but it still can't resolve host names or ping to outside IPs :/

[commodorejohn]

No luck; it doesn't manage to connect via static IP, and I can't find where to put in a static DNS server in Miami...

[commodorejohn]

Okay, coming back to this, this is the log file from MiamiInit when I connect via DHCP:

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MiamiInit 3.0 Information Sheet
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Miami, MiamiInit Copyright © 1996-1998 Nordic Global Inc.
All rights reserved.

Device settings
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Type: SANA-II bus/ring
Name: 3c589.device
Unit: 0
IP packet type: 2048
Arp packet type: 2054
RArp packet type: 32821
Wire type: 1
Address bits: 48
MTU: 1500

User settings
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User name: commodorejohn
Real name: commodorejohn

Protocol settings
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Local IP address: 192.168.1.102 <dynamically obtained from DHCP server>
Subnet address: 255.255.255.0 <dynamically obtained from DHCP server>
Gateway address: 192.168.1.1 <dynamically obtained from DHCP server>
ICMP is functional with the network setup

DNS settings
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Type of network connecting to: Internet
Host name: amiga1 <specified by user>
DNS is enabled
DNS servers: 68.115.71.53
             68.113.206.10
             66.189.0.100
(determined from DHCP)All the addresses match what my laptop's got, including the DNS servers, and the IP address is in the router's normal range. Yet it can't resolve domain names or ping outside IPs. Any idea what could be going wrong here, when everything is reported as being right?

[commodorejohn]

All right, finally got this thing working (there were some things in MiamiDX that hadn't gotten configured, I went through the guide and got everything set up properly.) Took some doing to get a download tool that actually worked (wget just barfed out cryptic "unknown error" messages, but GrabURL worked once I got rexxdossupport.library installed,) but my Amiga is now online at a whopping 10 Mbps

So the next question is, what's the best setup for Internet software for a moderately-expanded A1200? (40MHz 030, 32MB RAM, AGA, 4GB CF-over-IDE, ClassicWB 3.1.) Currently I've got Voyager, which is nice and responsive, but wastes a hell of a lot of screen space even with button icons turned off; is there a better browser that can get along pretty well on this setup? Also, is there a mail client for AOS 3.1 that supports SSL/TLS?

[commodorejohn]

iBrowse is running pretty well and is quite responsive, but there's an issue with the Settings window: whenever I direct it to open or display the GUI, HTML, Security, or Network sections, it disappears and won't come up again. And the prefs file is some kind of binary format, so I can't just tweak it in a text editor. Any idea how to resolve this?

[commodorejohn]

Okay, the settings issue was indeed a resolution problem; I put it into interlaced mode, and it switched to the other sections without issue. Annoying, but at least I got it open and got the massive toolbar space trimmed down to a reasonable amount. It's impressively responsive even on the reply page with all the animated emoticons; kudos to any iBrowse developers that might ever happen to wander into this thread. I'm not sure if it'll work with GMail or not, currently it's complaining about the lack of SSL.