A1200 going online

[Snoozy]

Hey buddy, are you saying I need to run an assign in my s:start-up?
 
How did others install easynet from cd if they don't have cd drives? Somebody had suggested saving the easynet cd as an iso image on pc then copy to cf? Does this fool the 1200 into thinking the easynet file is in a cd drive?
 
Why have amigakit put this sotware on cd?? When will they move into the 21st century and give it as a download with a keyfile that can be installed to the 1200 via cf pcmcia?!

[Snoozy]

Hey, can you let me know when you remember as I'm stuck at this point at the moment

[Snoozy]

Wow,

I have spent 4 hours trying to get my 1200 online and it has defeated me. No matter what i do i just can't get amitcp stack sorted. I have installed the binaries and the additional files, inserted my ip and gateway address and installed easynet as best i could but every time i double click easynet the program looks for amitcp and then fails.

Soo i need to remove smb-net from my wb...everytime wb loads up i get a msg that says...........  

Program "SMB-NET" has not yet returned. Do you want to wait some more?

How do i get rid of this or remove smbnet? I can't delete it as it seems to have appeared as an icon on my wb and won't let me delete (OS 3.9)

Any advice?

[Snoozy]

Ok so i am going down the miami route (which was my initial thoughts after other people's recommendations) and i have installed all the miami software including gui 3.8.

When i come to initialise miami i see no set up wizard, but an initialisation file so i double click on this and it brings up a plethora of options as to what my connections could be - modem, isdn board - serial driver, parallel, null modem, ethernet cable/adsl modem, arcnet.

So i choose ethernet which is what i thought my connection was via the pcmcia card and then it gives my various options commodore/cei a2065 unit 1, 2, 3, 4 or other. None of the commodore options work, so now i'm stuck.

I hoped the set-up wizard would do all this for me, nevertheless initial impressions are that miami is more user friendly than easynet. (Using easynet and amitcp caused significant system instability on my OS 3.9)

So i think i need a little helping hand from experienced miami users

(my card is an Etherlink III LAN PC Card for 10BASE-T and coaxial cable 3C589C) connected to a broadband ethernet router

[Snoozy]

ok, I have installed 3c589 all ok. (my card software)

When i double click on miami initialisation file, i now enter  ethernet/modem as my option and then i click other and type in  "3c589.device"

It then tells me it is contacting RArp server (loading)

and then gives me a subnet mask to confirm, which corresponds with my pc  subnet mask so i click continue and......., i just get the clock icon  continuously as if its thinking but not getting any further.

Its all plugged in, the pcmcia card and the wire from the card to the router. (the light on the card is on green continuously)

Any suggestions how i proceed, as i feel like i'm nearly there !

[Snoozy]

Well there's no doubting the fact that running miaminit caused my system to hang, i found out that at the verification stage of miamiinit you should press enter (rather than click on continue - where you can guarantee it will hang) I got as far as naming my connection on miaminit (ie almost at the end) and it would always hang, soooooo

Back to googling and come across one of thomas's previous postings (nearly 10 years ago)

  (see entry 18th Nov 2003 22:42)

http://eab.abime.net/archive/index.php/t-11591.html

and 3 days ago i have managed to get miami online (finally)
 
and although my status on miami tells me i am online, when i try to web  browse with Aweb, it gives an error while retrieving url, cannot resolve  host name.

Is it possible to have miami online and still not have it communicate with aweb?         so now, i am in the process of trying miami with ibrowse....

btw, my card is an Etherlink III LAN PC Card for 10BASE-T and coaxial cable 3C589C) connected to a broadband ethernet router

But still the same problem with ibrowse - "Host lookup failed, no DNS entry found." Thomas !! Help!!

[Snoozy]

I have found 2 further useful links

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...ight=miami+dns

and here (have to put my german gcse head on), hmmm

http://www.amiga-club.de/faq/miami_rout.html