Problems with Netgear wireless PCMCIA card

[Akira]

Arrrrrrgh I'm pulling my hair out here.

Changed a few things that I had different looking at your guide, but I still get same most happening error: When hitting online, LINK light freeszes in ON or OFF position, and Amiga cursor locks up unless I disconnect the card.

[Akira]

Trying, trying and trying...

managed to get MiamiDX working again.
Added the DNS servers just in case

Re-configured everything from scratch, just in case.

I click on online, and the card supposedly goes online, but LINK light is frozen in either ON or OFF position.

As soon as I try t ouse the card, or if I hit OFFLINE, system freezes until I disconnect the card.

What the hell is going on? This is a bog standard MA401 card, and your standard NTSC A1200. I doubt it's the expansion borad, but could it be? Nowhere in the net it says it's incompatible with PCMCIA.

I am crying alredy ;(

[Akira]

Still no luck. I am going to try to transfer the drivers to my A600 and see if it runs there. Could it be a faulty card?

[dnelsonfl]

@Akira,

Reading through the thread, we keep coming back to the link light staying and the Amiga locking up until its removed every time you try to connect. This sounds hardware related, perhaps with the driver? Do you have another computer (not necessarily an Amiga) that you can try the card with to make sure the card is functional? If it works on the other computer, then you know you have a good card, and the problem lies on the Amiga somewhere.

-David

[Akira]

I'll find someone with an old PC notebook, because all I have so far here is an A600 which I WILL TRY to load with the card as soon as I can transfer the drivers to it (it has no disk drive). It sure sounds like a h/w problem, strange thing is, sometimes it DOES behave normally, but still i cannot ping any machine. Maybe the card is at fault, I do not know. The A1200 so far has given no problems and it doesn't have any sign of it being faulty.

Cheers for your answer!

[leofoe]

Do you use the latest version of the prism2.device and SetPrism2Defaults (1.4)?

[Akira]

Well it seems the newest I could find is 1.1!
Checked aminet, and it says this:

"Changes in this version:

  - Added a reset handler for AmigaOS 4. This allows the system to restart
    if a soft reset occurs while the card is in use."

I do not know if it is much use to me if this is just the only change but it won't hurt to upgrade, thanks for the pointer.

[leofoe]

I knew because my A600 refused to run with version 1.1.

[Akira]

Worth a try then! Thanks!!!!! Will report back

[Xanxi]

Hello.
Sorry for not answering your private messages, i have not been here for some days.
As you know, i am using all this with an A600, not an A1200, and Miami 3.2, not Deluxe.
I have the prism2.setup line in user-startup with textkeyfile and fixed ip adress, submask and gateway in Miami. The dns is the same as the gateway and is found, as someone here said, in the database button.
As your setup seems correct to me, may be it is just a PCMCIA RESET problem that occurs on the 1200 but not the 600. How did you manage to fix this bug? Software? Hardware modification?

[amigagr]

http://de4.aminet.net/util/boot/CardReset.lha
http://main.aminet.net/util/boot/CardPatch.lha

if you can get them use them like this at the top of ss

C:CardPatch
run >:NIL C:CardReset TICKS 50

good luck

[Akira]

Why do you have to "run>NIL:" it?

I'll try, thanks!

[alexh]

that just stops it printing rubbish on the screen... pipes the output of that program to nowhere. You can do that with almost any program that you want to stay "quiet".

[Akira]

It doesn't need to be run'ed in order for the output to be sent to  NIL:

I suppose he ran it just in case it fails, but at this point, I rather know everything that happens, having all commands as verbose as possible.

Cheers!

[amigagr]

run C:CardReset TICKS 50
then is ok for you, the run command is need it to free up the main cli who runs the startup-sequence. more for this on amiga os manual as i don't remember why this thing works this way...

[Xanxi]

So, is it working now?