Can I buy any given PCMCIA Ethernet card for my A1200?

[LP]

I just wondered if any of you know if I can just buy any given PCMCIA Ethernet card for my A1200, what about drivers and software?
Should it be Type1 or Type2?

Any recomendations are welcome...

I'm intending to use it as a part of a LAN/Internet network...

Any help apreciated!

Cheers :pint:

[SilvrDrgn]

You need to buy a card that is NE2000 compatible, and it has to be in the supported list in the "cnet.device" driver package.  That is available on Aminet.  Go to the web page for your favorite Aminet site and enter "cnetdevice" into the search box (without the quotes, of course).

[chris]

There are two types that work: The first (edit) I've just been beaten to mentioning and the 3COM model #3C589 ones (eg. Etherlink III).  I have a 3Com one which works perfectly well with the 3c589 driver available on Aminet.

Chris

[lorddef]

Yeh, using an etherlink 3 and 3com device here too, it works a treat.

[chris]

One of these appear to be the current compatible 3Com ones although I'm sure you can get cheaper cards elsewhere (or second hand).

I've just realised the second part of the question was never answered.  You also need a TCP/IP stack such as Miami, it is fairly simple to set Miami up to use an Ethernet card.

Chris

[amigamad]

This site has some info on cards you can use link here http://www.g-mb.de/pcmcia_e.html

[Doobrey]

It`s a shame Holger no longer supports or handles registration for Miami, so the only legit way to get a TCP stack is to either buy a second hand copy of Miami, or get the AmigaOS3.9 update ( I never can remember if Genesis was in 3.5 or not !)..or track down someone still selling the NetConnect CD.

BTW, whatever happened to all that stuff about the legality of Genesis a couple of years back..something todo with someone selling rights they didn`t have to H&P
 

[Damion]

Cnet.device with an old Edimax EP-4000 here,
works well.

[Jose]

So that raises a good quesiton. Wich one is the fastest?
I been told you can acheive 3.5MB/s on the A1200 PCMCIA port, but these cards are base on the old PC bus I think.

[Doobrey]

Network transfer rate  is dependant on the CPU.
 On my 1200 030/50 it roughly averages at around the 200-250KB/s mark using a CN40BC card..mind you that is using Samba to transfer files.
 I`ll have to see what the other A1200 040/40 with a Kingston card can manage tomorrow.

[chris]

My A1200 030@40 managed 238KB/s on a test file using Samba with a 3Com Megahertz 589.

This works out to 1.9Mbps for a 10Mbps card, which isn't quite so impressive. It is much faster than a serial cable though :-)

Chris

[GPT]

When I bought my PCMCIA card, I didn't look to see witch card that work but I was lucky to get on that worked.

And it was not on the list.

Repotec PCMCIA card.

I have a 060/50 on my BlizzardPPC and the topp speed of my connection was 413.4 kB/s and that was with a 10mbit connection that is soon to be upgraded to 100mbit connection for free!!  :-) .

[LP]

hey guys... sorry for not giving feedback...

I really appreciate all your answers...

I think I'm going for 3Com but not quite sure yet...

Cheers!

[DanDude]

Doobrey on 2003/8/16 17:55:12

It`s a shame Holger no longer supports or handles registration for Miami

Well, that sux.  At least I have all the components of my MiamiDX.  I believe 3.5 had Genesis, but I vaguely remember it.  

As for ethernet, a faster processor can speed up the transfers.  I tried it with my 030/25 in my 4000 and it's sloooooooooooow.  Hmm.  I'd like to upgrade to a 060 processor very soon.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Hi,

Can one of you guys who's gotten Samba to work PM or e-mail me?  I've already got a network set up consisting of Win98 & XP machines, and now my A1200, using a Linksys EC2T card.  I can connect to the network using either Miami or Genesis (Genesis seems to be the better of the two), ping other machines, and pull up my hub diagnostics (http://192.168.1.1 - it's a Linksys hub, too) using Voyager, but Samba is just killing me!  My machine is already a hack running on top of a patch on top of a hack (OS4 - Please!), but right now all I'm getting is the guru.  Any tips?

Thanks,
Mike