Need help getting PCMCIA ethernet setup on A1200

[blakespot]

I have a towered A1200 w/ OS 3.9 and a Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card that is compatible with the Amiga via avail drivers.  I tried earlier but could not determine just what I needed to download to get it working and just what needs to be edited in the system.

Could someone explain how to get this setup, or point me to a page that does?  Thanks!

Now that I gave away my dual G4 800 Mac that had a Zip drive, I no longer have a way to get data to the Amiga.  (It has a SCSI Zip drive connected.)


bp

[ckillerh3]

Hi -
I spent about a month getting my not-towered Amiga 1200 connected to my cable line.  I bought my 3-Comm card from a nice fellow that always lists on E-Bay for about $25 or so. He helped 100% of the way and made all the difference.

The card I bought from him came with an installation disk.
There is a card reset command that had to physically be moved to the S directory I think.  Everything else installed automatically - after I downloaded the INSTALLER program since I'm only running OS 3.1

After that I needed to download MUI magic user interface, then Miami DX and lastly IBrowse.  It took me some time to get everything installed and running right.  Since you have OS 3.9 you might not need to deal with the bologna I had to deal with.  Also your machine is probably faster, has more ram and a videocard I hope.

Best luck - this was probably not too helpful.  Hang in there.

Stephen in NJ

[Damion]

Hey dude,

From what I remember....first you need the "cnet.device" driver (aminet), install that, then you may also need "cardreset" and "cardpatch" also from aminet. Cardrest is pretty self-explanatory,, it fixes a hardware bug (IIRC), just keep in mind you may need to manually "adjust" the reset time with an argument if the default doesn't work (didn't for me). Cardpatch fixes 'slowdown' problems with PCMCIA usage and 040/060 processors among other things, again IIRC...check the docs to be sure.  The latter are easy to install, just throw them in your c: drawer and run them from your user-startup or startup-sequence. After that you should be ready to setup your TCP/IP and off you go!!

[DonnyEMU]

You could always find a copy of MacDisk or CrossMac laying around somewhere, as long as your Mac will still read the old mac disks then you'd be set..

Make sure you have the right PCMCIA card driver off Aminet.. and the cardreset and cardpatch software.. I used miami and it  worked fine..

[patrik]

@blakespot:

If you have OS3.9, just use the supplied Genesis(AmiTCP) TCP/IP stack in addition to one of the device drivers already mentioned. Genesis(AmiTCP) is also much faster than Miami.


/Patrik

[delshay]

i have a ADSL modem/router but cant access the internal modem  software..


1. do i need a ADSL line to access the internal software first?


2. what is the easy way to set-up/config DHCP?.


a1200 OS3.9


                                 thanks del  

[ncafferkey]

delshay wrote:
i have a ADSL modem/router but cant access the internal modem  software..


1. do i need a ADSL line to access the internal software first?

ADSL routers are usually configured via a web interface. You need to know the router's default IP address, which can probably be found printed on the device itself or in the manual. Then enter that address in a web browser on a computer on your network.