Amiga OS 4 troubleshooting (networking/internet)

[amiga2000]

Are there any dedicated Amiga OS4 faq/help websites? I cannot seem to find many accounts from other people on how their particular installation went.

I got around to installing OS4 on my Amiga1200/Blizzard PPC system. It installed fine, but I cannot get the internet/network to run. I am trying to connect to a cable modem via DHCP. I have the ApNet (PCMCIA) adapter, and the New Connection wizard did not automatically detect it. I had to copy cnet.device from OS3.9 into the Devs/Networks folder, and then it seemed to detect it. But after the wizard finishes, it tries to connect, and it times out. It also has a message saying that this type of network does not need a dialer. But no "connection" icon is made in the Connections folder. How am I supposed to go "online"?

I tried playing a little with the settings in Prefs/Internet, but it did not really help. I did not have problems running internet/networking on OS3.9.

Is it possible to run Miami Deluxe on OS4? I tried copying over the files from OS3.9, but it says a TCP/IP stack is already running.

I also cannot get dvplayer to play dvd's. It just produces "Error Opening Stream" errors.

I remember reading a while back that there was some problem with OS4 and 1200 systems.... What was the specific issue? and have there been any patches released?

[amiga2000]

Hi Andrew,

thanks for the tip about commenting out the AddNetInterfaces line in the startup-sequence. It has been a while since I used my Amiga 1200.

So it worked. I can use Miami Deluxe to get connected. I was wondering though - since Miami was not formally "ported" to OS4 PPC, does that mean the JIT emulation kicks in when I run Miami? Or is it running natively in PPC?

I actually cannot use a static IP, since my cable ISP uses DHCP.

I am going to try downloading that PPC Amiga browser I read about.

That would really suck if this OS4 cannot play dvd's on the 1200 IDE...... I was looking forward to playing dvd's on this Amiga.

Roy

[amiga2000]

copying the VOB's would defeat the purpose for me, but it would be good if that works. First, I am going to try MPlayer to see if that works instead.

I noticed though that this Amiga OS4 consumes a LOT of memory. Maybe it is because Miami was running through JIT emulation. I never saw my memory go down to 20MB. When I was running OS3.9, it was ALWAYS 100MB (I have a 128MB on the A1200).

Roy