PCMCIA 3Com EtherLink III and 1200 drivers...

[chris]

XDelusion wrote:
Is it possible to use an assigned IP even though I'm using a  router and everything else is on DHCP?

Yep.  FWIW I have a 3Com 3C589 card (can't remember the exact model, it's not an Etherlink though), and I can't get DHCP to work with that through Miami, so it may be a driver problem (or my router).

[XDelusion]

Hmmm yes, sounds really easy, but alas, nothing's working.

First off I got my IP from my router, so I put that as the Gateway on the Amiga, but could not set it to DNS because there was no DNS settings what so ever, unless it's under another name or something.

 Secondly I changed my IP to static, and since my Router hands out IP's such as 192.168.1.1, I set the AMiga to 192.168.1.8 since it is not being used.

 I then saved, rebooted, opened up Genesis, told it to go on-line and it told me this:
------------------
 bootpc send sendto
 BOOTTP failed to have an answered (oh but of course)
 route add SIOCADDRT network is unreachable
 3c5890 is now on-line
 could not get hostname for this machine
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 So ya, that totally made no sence to me, what's a SIOCADDRT, and why does it say on-line when it's far from it?

[adonay]

i had my 1200 online now i get the same thing as you get so i use the pc for internet. wish i could remember what i did to go online it was the same PCMCIA card too

adonay :-D

[lurkist]

Make sure you have something in Genesis Prefs/Interfaces/Resolv the DNS column.  You should have DNS addresses from your ISP.  This was the problem in another thread.
Cheers

[XDelusion]

Ok, I installed Cardpatch and CardReset.

Then I went and set up Genesis to use my new driver for my Eth card (which has been PC tested btw).
 From there I went into INTERFACE and gave it the IP of:

192.168.1.8

Because my PC is 1.1 and my XBOX is 1.6.

I left DESTINATION blank because I don't know what that is, never heard of it in my life.

I set GATEWAY to the IP adress that my IP gave to my router.

 I set NETMASK to default.

 Then went to RESOLV

 I typed in 68.168.240.2 as my DNS because that's what the tech told me it was.
 I clicked on ADD, the numbers vanished and the space they were supposed to got was used, but they were not visible (prolly because I'm using 32 colors).

 I went ahead and hit OK.

 Tried to connect, it says:

Route_Add: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
3c5890 is now online

 So...

...what am I doing wrong? Is there something I'm not getting because I'm pretty sure I've done everything I've been told.

 I feel like I'm running Linux or something. :/

[Argo]

Did you try this one?

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=45645

I'm trying this with my A1200 and Cabletron Roamabout card. I am at the sneakernet stage of getting a tcp/ip stack installed along with software to use.
Though I am finding this interesting.

[XDelusion]

I'm not using wireless. It's all cabled.

[ncafferkey]

XDelusion wrote:

 From there I went into INTERFACE and gave it the IP of:

192.168.1.8

Because my PC is 1.1 and my XBOX is 1.6.

Are you sure this is outside the DHCP range as mentioned in previous posts.

I set GATEWAY to the IP adress that my IP gave to my router.

Make sure this is the local address rather than the public address, ie. it should start with 192.168.1.

 I set NETMASK to default.

 Then went to RESOLV

 I typed in 68.168.240.2 as my DNS because that's what the tech told me it was.
 I clicked on ADD, the numbers vanished and the space they were supposed to got was used, but they were not visible (prolly because I'm using 32 colors).

I think that's a bug in the GUI. You have to press return after entering the address. In other words, I don't think it's a colour problem, I think your DNS didn't get set.

[XDelusion]

Ok, if I'm using the Genesis Wizard, what should I put under Router, where it has

IP
Netmask
Router



--EDIT--

Also here is a pic of my router info, I could not put a quick link on my page because the server is down so you have to download it atm. :/

http://rapidshare.de/files/9542886/router.GIF.html


Seems if I add in a gateway, i get errors when i connect, if I don't add a gateway it just says I'm on-line.

Either way, I'm not really on-line.

How would I go about testing to see if I can at least transfer files from my Winblows machine to my Amiga?

[dawiper]

Here's what works for me:

IP: Set it to a free IP outside of the dhcp ip-pool range.
    My router has 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.32 as it's pool.
    I use 192.168.1.96 for my amiga. I know it's free

Mask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: Should be the same IP as your router.
         My router has 192.168.1.254 as its ip and this is
         what I've set as my gateway on the amiga.

DNS: This should be the dns that your ISP has told you to use.
     In other words the same numbers that your router use as DNS.
     
When you have entered your dns numbers press 'enter' instead of 'Add'.

Hope this helps
   

[XDelusion]

Ok, well they say that your router's IP should start with:

192.168.x.

Well mine begins with

68.171.x.

etc

 So does that mean there is another router IP I should see somewhere?


Also I have a Netgear router. When a computer is connected to the net, the number for that computer lights up in Green on the front of the router, but when I try to take the Amiga on-line, it gets an orange light.
 Is this because it is a 10 and not a 100?


-----EDIT----

I used the Gateway 192.168.1.2 because that's what everything was set to by default unter the router's Lan Ip settings section.

Now the Amiga seems to try to load web pages, but always fails, where as before it just failed instantly.

[dawiper]

Sounds like dns lookup doesn't have the right ip.
Try to insert "http://216.239.59.103/" (google.com) as adr. in your amiga browser.

[XDelusion]

same old crap

[dawiper]

Are you sure your router's ip is 192.168.1.2? What ip do you use when you log into the router preferences?

[xaccrocheur]

You should have bought it from Amigakit, the 30 quid 3Com card is budled w/ software (on both Floppy & CD!) and although I don't like it's connector (a fragile push-pull mini one, always afraid of ripping it off) it works like a charm.

Support your local Amiga dealer !

[XDelusion]

I'm not sure if that is the IP, if I login to my router I use a name rather than actual IP:

http://www.routerlogin.net/

 So like I said it's kind of hard to say what the IP is as you will see in my picture, if you'll download it from the link above. It's either that or 192.168.1.2. I can't tell, the docs that came with it suck, but unlike my D-Link and LinkSys, it actually works on my PC and Amiga.

 As for buying from an Amiga dealer? WHY!?!?!?! I would have paid 4 times what I payed for this had I gotten it from a dealer!