Is this NIC A1200 compatible ?

[xaccrocheur]

Hello, I (badly!) want to buy one of those :

EDIMAX 10/100 Mbps

But wouldlike to know if it's fully compatible with my Amiga 1200 PCMCIA port, and the related.device for that matter.

I remember seiing, not so long ago, maybe a week or two, a compatibility matrix page, focused on Linux m68k, but listing AmigaOS compatibility as well... A rough page, black on white with a mean table... Can't find it anywhere ! Not in my history (must be named weirdly) not in my head (it's a real mess, never go in there) Help ?

What I'd really like to hear, tho, is that somebody here is using this NIC (EDIMAX 10/100 Mbps) or maybe this one :
A CONNECTLAND 10/100 Mbps ?

Thank you very much !

[Zac67]

AFAIK all 10/100 NICs are CardBus type, i.e. PCI style - so not hardware compatible w/ A600/1200 (100BaseTx doesn't make sense w/o PCI).

You'll have to look out for older cards that use old PCMCIA 2.x (ISA style) host connection. If they're compatible with NE2000 or 3C50x you've got a chance to find a driver.

[odin]

At least that second card is a CardBus card (note the gold strip with the 'bumps'). The pics of the first card are too small to tell.

[xaccrocheur]

I'm confused, I though that "Cardbus" was just the popular name of the PCMCIA slots..? Are you really sure that when it says "cardbus" (a LOT (if not all!) of PCMCIA offers on ebay do) It's NOT A1200 Compatible ?

Oh, and nobody heard of this PCMCIA NIC A1200/Linux m68k compatibility matrix page ?

[patrik]

@xaccrocheur:

Here it is.


/Patrik

[odin]

From wikipedia:

The original PCMCIA bus was 16-bit, similar to ISA. CardBus is effectively a 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus, in the same physical form as the earlier cards. The notch on the left hand front of the card is slightly shallower on a CardBus card so a 32-bit card cannot be plugged into a slot that can only accept 16-bit cards. Most slots are compatible with both the CardBus and the original 16-bit cards.

CardBus includes the bus mastering ability, which allows a controller on the bus to talk to other devices or memory without going through the CPU. Many chipsets are available for both PCI and CardBus cards, such as those that support Wi-Fi.

I tried stuffing my CardBus WLAN card into my A1200 a few minutes ago, it really didn't fit :-).

However it's quite possible alot of EBayers misidentify the card they're selling. Or just know jackshit about what they're actually selling..

[xaccrocheur]

Mm... This "cardbus" bit really confuses me. I'm gonna stick to the compatibility page, as it seems really up-to-date.
(By the way, it's ethernet I'm interested in, not WiFI, and I seem to have confused the two in the start of this thread) Unfortunately, they listed THE board that all resellers here in Paris stock for 30€ (that's roughly 20£) as *untested*... Sigh. So I'm asking the same lame question : Has anybody happily used a BELKIN 10/100 in their A1200/A600 ?

thank you very much, and please excuse the noise..

[Linchpin]

Ok. I have one of the following cards. Works fine on Amiga.

Even has NE2000 written on it

Goldcell II PCMCIA Card