Wireless USB & Deneb

[Tumbleweed]

Hi all,

Is it possible to use a wireless USB adapter plugged into a USB port on a Deneb card and Miami to connect to wireless router?

Weed

[Jope]

Is it possible to use a wireless USB adapter plugged into a USB port on a Deneb card and Miami to connect to wireless router?

Are you confusing wireless USB with a wireless lan adapter that connects to a USB port?

The answer to your question in the form that you asked it; no, wireless USB and wireless LAN are not compatible.

[jj]

Also wirelss on the amiga is next to usless if you want any sort of decent security running

[Tension]

Are you confusing wireless USB with a wireless lan adapter that connects to a USB port?

The answer to your question in the form that you asked it; no, wireless USB and wireless LAN are not compatible.

That's not what the OP meant.

Yes you can use Wireless USB sticks...  If you get the drivers...

[Tumbleweed]

Thanks for the replies.

What I've got is a Linksys Wirels-G USB network adpater that is ued on my parents PC to connect ot a Linksys wireless router. I have connected the USB adapter to the Deneb and it shows in Trident but has a orange circle with a question mark against it. DevClass s shown 2 (CDC Control).

I tried chnaging driver in Miami (currently x-surf.device) to other devies like pegasus.device and a couple of others, but to no avail.

@Tension is this waht you mean? ie if I can find a device driver, it'll function?

Thanks.

Weed

[Tension]

Thanks for the replies.

What I've got is a Linksys Wirels-G USB network adpater that is ued on my parents PC to connect ot a Linksys wireless router. I have connected the USB adapter to the Deneb and it shows in Trident but has a orange circle with a question mark against it. DevClass s shown 2 (CDC Control).

I tried chnaging driver in Miami (currently x-surf.device) to other devies like pegasus.device and a couple of others, but to no avail.

@Tension is this waht you mean? ie if I can find a device driver, it'll function?

Thanks.

Weed

Yea.

[arnljot]

I think there are wireless pcmcia drivers for b cards.

For g and n cards you'll strike out, also if they are on usb.

For one thing the pcmcia cards will look for hardware in the pcmcia memory space, strike one.

Strike two is that cards have different ways to set the security settings WEP/WPA/WPA2 etc. So unless you'll do an open wifi network....

I'm sure there are enough problems for you to strike out on this...

What I suggest is that you either set up a bounty, or learn to code a wifi stack for the amiga :-)

One that'll allow for devices to either be accessed through poseidon, zorro or pcmcia. You'll be a hero. :-)

[jj]

Though I suppose when it come to security.  i found the latest wireless N300 router I bought supports 4 different  SSIds so might be possible, though im not sure, to ghave different security settings fior each

[Tumbleweed]

@arnjolt

"What I suggest is that you either set up a bounty, or learn to code a wifi stack for the amiga :-)

One that'll allow for devices to either be accessed through poseidon, zorro or pcmcia. You'll be a hero. :-)"

I'm afraid my coding days are well behind me, last thing I had any experience on was a C16 and a bit of Pacal on a Mac in the 90's.  Coding on the Amiga never really happened for me. What would be the best approach to learning to code on the Amiga? C,C++, Assembler?

Weed

[platon42]

Also wirelss on the amiga is next to usless if you want any sort of decent security running

Also, you can search this forum on similar posts. The essence: get a standalone wireless router for 20-30 bucks with WPA2, that would otherwise grind your amiga's CPU to halt otherwise.

[CountRaven]

Wireless under Amiga is possible.

I am already using a PCMCIA wireless network card on my Amiga 1200 under OS 3.1 & 3.5, OS4 and MorphOS. It is a NetGear MA401 card.

I am also using a wireless PCI NetWork card on my AmigaOne.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=158


prism2.device does the trick for both of those cards.

On my 4000 I got this USB 2 LAN adapter working fine with Deneb under 3.9, 4.0 and MorphOS.

It would be great if USB 2 wireless LAN could be brought on the classic Amiga. Perhaps through an updated version of prism2.device and / or support to Poseidon.

[Gulliver]

I am sorry this is a little bit off Topic: Can I use a prism based PCI card with a mediator using prism2.device?

Thanks, and sorry for the intrusion!

[arnljot]

C and perhaps some ASM if you're aiming for classic. UtilityBase.com has some articles, but it's hard to navigate it's content.

Also google is your friend.