Prism2.device on OS4 Anyone?

[badgerme]

How do - im trying to get my Prism2 based WiFi PCMCIA card to work under OS 4 - I've installed the Prism2.lha file located on Aminet (puts the drivers in the right place) - Ive edited my user-startup to set the Prism2Defaults yet it still doesn't find my device?

Has anyone got setup their prism2 on os4, or would know how to install this manually?

I can't wait to start browsin the net, setting up ftp etc etc

[crispy]

Hi Badgerme,

Try the new Beta drivers from Neil - I helped him test them and they work great on my system - give those a whirl and see what happens.

The news story below has a download link in it.

Cheers
Chris

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47448

[badgerme]

cheers Chris - tried copying the prism2.device file to Devs/Networks and the pccard.library file to Libs: but it just makes my system freeze when trying to look for it during the 'New Connection' software in OS 4

I'm assuming that I need to ignore the MOS directory as thats for MorphOS right?

[DBAlex]

@badgerme

Not sure, works fine here with both an orinoco card on my A1200 & a PCI WiFi card from AmigaKit on my Pegasos I. (The card was labelled for an AmigaOne but it's just a prism2 compatible card)

You just copy prism2.device to SYS:Devs/Networks and the other utilities and then set prism2.device as your device in your networking software...

This is obvious but also make sure its just "prism2.device" and not SYS:Devs/Networks/prism2.device... (the TCP/IP software should look in the network dir anyway - anyone feel free to correct me on this if its wrong)

I've had the prism2.device working with both the original Miami and MOSNet (the MorphOS TCP/IP stack programmed by Pavel "Sonic" Fedin) - I only had to change one line in the config for that... as it treats the WiFi still as ethernet... but using a different device.

As I don't have an OS4 machine & so don't know how Roadshow (Isn't that the name of the builtin TCP/IP?) i'm not sure how you would set it up, I would assume however that you just set up the connection as a standard ethernet connection but using the prism2.device driver.

Another possibility maybe that you are installing the pccard.library too... do you really need that on OS4? Try both with and without just to make sure.

Hope something in there helps, if you want any more help feel free to PM me. ;-)

Alex.  :-D

[badgerme]

cheers alex ill give that a try later tonight! ive got a feeling its to do with the pccard library file

[DBAlex]

@badgerme

Did you get it working?

Alex.

[badgerme]

getting closer - it seems to pass the 'test' when adding the device using the 'New Connection' wizard. Yet, when I go to save the device config file as PRISM2 it hangs? Only just this second tried it - could it be an invalid file name or summat?

[badgerme]

it keeps asking for a port number - default is 0 - does anyone know the port number for the pcmcia slot?? maybe thats where im going wrong?

[badgerme]

hmmm bizzare - still wont work - basically says input/output error - cant open port 0

Card worked fine in os 3.9 with the prism2.device file for that, which I downloaded from Aminet... so I know the cards ok....

Do I need CardReset or CardPatch maybe?

[DBAlex]

Are you sure the card is supposed to work with OS4?

Mine works fine on OS3.9, but sure about OS4 w/ PCMCIA at all to be honest. It *should* work though... also if you can't get  it working after a while try registering at Amigans.net as they have a lot more OS4 users there.

Also can you use prepcard to find out the port number of the card... also what about the early boot menu? Although can't remember if that gives you PCMCIA card info or not... :-?

Alex.

[ncafferkey]

Are you sure the error messages don't refer to "Unit 0" rather than "Port 0"? You might need CardReset and CardPatch, I don't know if their functionality has been incorporated into OS4's PCMCIA code. Alternatively, you can plug in the card after you've booted. Also, have you tried the 68k driver under OS4?

[Amigamia]

Is there a new beta version for AROS as well?

[ncafferkey]

Amigamia wrote:
Is there a new beta version for AROS as well?

No, because AROS doesn't support PCMCIA.