amigabill wrote:
Is the Spider really required to get USB for Amithlon anyway? I thought Amithlon tapped into the linux drivers to run hardware, as it allows use of Nvidia gfx cards for example and other things which have no native AmigaOS or native Amithlon drivers. Why not just use a Linux-native supported cheapo USB/USB2 card with the Linux drivers, or doesn't that work yet? I was under the impression that Amithlon made special Amiga drivers for a particular USB/gfx/sound/etc. card irelevant...
No, that would be Umilator.
Amithlon as it is, relies on the slow stream of mostly useless drivers coming from the hands of Harald Frank and friends. Useless to me at least, as my only main feature of Amithlon is that it runs on laptops, and I do not see Harald Frank providing drivers for neither ethernet, pcmcia, sound or anything that you typically find on a laptop. With Umilator however, this could be different.
Ofcourse, as the Spider is just a NEC card with a sticker on, I dont see why those driver shouldnt work also the original NEC cards. Unless there's something naughty going on with the drivers again, so that only cards with certain chip serial IDs will work, and other cards, if detected, might cause something unexpected . :-D
