A1200 / Wireless Netgear card / Prism2.device

[mchaggis]

Hey all, I purchased an A1200 recently and am setting about getting it onto my local Windows LAN.

It is a bare A1200 with 2MB (8MB card coming)
NetGear MA401 Wireless Card
OS3.0
Miami
Prism2.device

This is a very stock standard ami (for now).

So far i have used a floppy disk to get prism and miami onto the machine; the prism2.device driver is in the devs:networks/ directory. And Miami is installed on the data: partition of the old 40MB internall HDD.

Configuring Miami is proving to be an issue for me; no matter what i choose in MiamiInit i can never see the wireless card come up in the station list of the wireless router, and nor can I ping in or out.

I have set Miami up to treat the wireless card as both a SANA-II device and an Ethernet device. Both dont work for me.

I have tried various settings for DHCP, setting a fixed IP, using DHCP. I have tried the router as the gateway, and the IP of my sever as the gateway. All without sucess.

I can ping (effectively) localhost by pinging the IP i hardcode as the A1200's IP, so I am confident that Miami is working. I've also added miami to the path via user-startup. Just to make using it a little move convienent.

Looking through other posts I have seen that some soul got a NetGear MA401 working with prism2.device drivers; does anyone know of the trick or can point out what i might be doing wrong?

I have also tried all of this using the cnet.device driver; to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

[CageyBee]

Have you used the SetPrism2Defaults command to setup the Card?

Setprism2defaults SSID whatever NOKEY MANAGED CHANNEL 11
for example.

[darksun9210]

darn, you got there before me :-D

you need setprism2defaults to tell the prism2.device how and what it is connecting to...

did you get the easynet software with the card?

for testing, set the router up to be an unsecured wireless network with the network name all in uppercase. you can worry about sorting out the name and security once its all working.

it doesn't matter if the router is a DHCP server. leave it running as such. Just set your amiga to have a static IP quite high in the range so it won't get re-assigned by the router.

set your router's IP address as the gateway and DNS server, and subnetmask as the same, and you should be laughing...

[mchaggis]

Nope, I didn't know about that command. But it is now firmly entrenched in my user-sequence

And no sooner had the commend been typed then the router reported a client.

Thanks for your help.

[mchaggis]

And thanks for your help also; those settings were valuable for getting DHCP to work.

I can happily ping in and out of the A12.

There isn't enough memory in it too do anything else; but I bought an 8Mb card on eBay over last weekend; so when that arrives I'll start using Samba.

Thanks again.

[amigadave]

CageyBee wrote:
Have you used the SetPrism2Defaults command to setup the Card?

Setprism2defaults SSID whatever NOKEY MANAGED CHANNEL 11
for example.

Sorry to highjack this thread but, I also have an A1200 that I want to set up with wireless Internet.  I bought the whole package from AmigaKit with the EasyNet software, but I have not been able to get it set up correctly yet.

My A1200 has an 060 w/48mb RAM and SCSI controller w/external connector to a CDROM drive and a ZIP250 optical drive and internal 2gb HD.  When I got it, it was loaded with tons of software and OS3.9 and the previous owner appears to have used it on the Internet, as I found the prism2 driver already installed.

I have not yet written to AmigaKit to ask for help, but it was on my list of things to do.  I must be missing something as I could not follow their directions that came with EasyNet to get it working.  My router uses WEP encryption for security and I found no where to input the key.

Can you help?

[Marcb]

amigadave wrote:


I have not yet written to AmigaKit to ask for help, but it was on my list of things to do.  I must be missing something as I could not follow their directions that came with EasyNet to get it working.  My router uses WEP encryption for security and I found no where to input the key.

Can you help?

Boot up Easynet, then go to the Project Menu and select Interface Configuration... Select the prism2.device and then hit the settings button...
Select Network type as Infrastructure and you'll need to select the type of key then enter the WEP key...
Hope that helps...

Also, I had a bugger of a time getting it connected to my router but then I realised that it was because my SSID was a two word name with a space in between the two words, Changed the space to an underscore on my Router and it's been happy connections since!

[amigadave]

@Marcb,

Thanks, I'll give it another try.

[TheGoose]

Hey, I'm having a hard time too, after trying the help here I can not get it connected. My setup is slightly different though. I  have a network like this:

cable modem -> netgear router -> computer(s) and 1 WiFi access point.

And I was a little confused about the UPPER CASE thing mentioned above. Does that matter?

I am using Genesis and the Setprism2defaults line in user-startup. I maybe need to check the subnet mask, hmmm. Good thing is, that Genesis seems to 'talk' to the card just fine.



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