X-Surf not recognized/recognized but not working

[leofoe]

I saw some threads on this subject on AO but no solutions yet.

I cannot get my X-Surf card to work in my A4000D. The card works in my A2000 though. Sometimes the X-Surf is not recognized in the early startup menu. Sometimes it is. But even if ShowConfig reports the board with the right specs, I get an error on trying to open de x-surf.device.
A4000D specs: Cyberstorm MK II 060 with CyberSCSI, Cybervision 64/3D and X-Surf. No IDE disks. 3.1 ROM's and OS3.9.

Any hints would be very welcome!

[HellCoder]

I've had the same problem, sometimes detection worked and sometimes it didn't. I solved it by putting the card in my other A4000D. I'm not sure wat caused the problem nor did I bother to fix it. Perhaps it has got something to do with buster version ?

[A1200Power]

Hi,

What you tell me also sound like the same problem i had with my towerised 4000. I could not open the device so i installed the boingbag updates 1 and 2. The problem was gone. However i can't explain why your card is not detected right away. Buster rev 9?? rev 11 should do the trick.

Greetzz Henk

[leofoe]

@Henk: I have Buster 11 and I have BB1 and 2 installed.

[A1200Power]

Leo,

That really suck's then, i guess you don't have a spare daugtherboard to check if it make's a difference? Still it is kind a strange having the card not seen at boot.

Gr henk

[redrumloa]

What stack are you using? Gensis, Miami? If using anything other than Miami, I'd recommend trying the Miami Demo version. For the life of me I could never get Genesis to do diddly squat(with a prommy/rtl8029AS that is) :-x

[leofoe]

@redrumloa: I use AmiTCP. I don't believe that has anything to do with the problem. The hardware-interface is not recognized.
Error message from AmiTCP when running startnet is:
OpenDevice: Device or unit failed to open
Interface x-surf not found!
Interface x-surf configuration failed!
Stopping AmiTCP

Thanks anyway for thinking with me!

[redrumloa]

@leofoe

Yeah, very close to the message I used to get when I'd try Genesis with Prommy/rtl8029AS. I'd still say try the Miami Demo to see if it just works.

[leofoe]

@redrumloa: to do you a favor I installed Miami. Running MiamiInit responds with:

Miami is unable to open
device 'Devs:networks/X-surf.device' unit 0.
The device might be in use.
Error 0.

[redrumloa]

@leofoe

OK, I'm sorry it didn't work :-(

[Framiga]

x-surf.device must be lowercase

[leofoe]

@Framiga: The filename was X-surf.device. Changed to lower case: no difference.

[Framiga]

does xsurftest respond? (without run AmiTCP)

Next step, contact Jens S.

AFAIK there are some rare issues, due XSurf autoconfig and ZIII cards.

[leofoe]

@Framiga: I do not have xsurftest. Cannot find it on the net either. Bought this card secondhand w/o software. If someone could supply it, I would be grateful.

[Framiga]

download the latest driver from Here

and read the doc about the Sana2 variable.

The installation CD is ~ 8MB in size. Contact me privately, if you want it as ISO.