Deneb Ethernet Driver

[wawrzon]

@darrin:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11432

[tnt23]

Any chance to see a driver for some wireless USB dongle?

[Jose]

With the Deneb a network adapter is using both the USB stack and a TCP/IP stack, so it has more overhead.

What I'd really like to see would be a ZorroIII to PCI adapter based on Deneb technology using burst mode

[tnt23]

Jose wrote:
With the Deneb a network adapter is using both the USB stack and a TCP/IP stack, so it has more overhead.

Personally I wouldn't mind, I've got 030 in my A3000 to take care of this overhead

[Darrin]

wawrzon wrote:
@darrin:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11432

Thanks for that.  I like the 4 port hub mounted onto a 5.25" drive bay plate.  I've got the parts together to mount a USB port and a CF Card reader onto the unused 2nd floppy bay plate on my A4000 and run the ports to the internal IDE connector and the Deneb's internal USB slot.  One of my many projects just waiting for some spare time...

 :-)

[Darrin]

tnt23 wrote:

Personally I wouldn't mind, I've got 030 in my A3000 to take care of this overhead

This card is ideal for the A3000 as you can have a cheap external PC DVD drive attached.  I have a bog standard internal IDE drive on my A4000, but an off-the-shelf external HP DVD+/-RW was just plug+play.

[LoadWB]

Jose wrote:
With the Deneb a network adapter is using both the USB stack and a TCP/IP stack, so it has more overhead.

What I'd really like to see would be a ZorroIII to PCI adapter based on Deneb technology using burst mode

Another PCI interface might be nice.  I'm thinking in terms of a hardware-accelerated USB stack.  I imagine a micro-controller on the USB card running the stack (with flash for updates) and a client on the Amiga side would run pretty darn quickly.

[tnt23]

Darrin wrote:
This card is ideal for the A3000 as you can have a cheap external PC DVD drive attached.  I have a bog standard internal IDE drive on my A4000, but an off-the-shelf external HP DVD+/-RW was just plug+play.

I absolutely agree, I bought myself a Deneb just because of its ability to use that lot of modern USB peripherals. (And now the only noisy thing in my A3000 is the PSU fan, as I've completely migrated to USB flash thanks to Deneb.)

I wish I could also hook it to my home wireless network  :-)

[Darrin]

tnt23 wrote:

I wish I could also hook it to my home wireless network  :-)

I know what you mean.  I have a huge cable running around my room from the Deneb to one of the port on the back of my wireless router.  Wireless would be nice, even if it wouldn't work with encryption.  :-)

[Matt_H]

@ Darrin

A Linksys wireless router with some hacked firmware provides a nice multiport wireless bridge. I use this trick to reach the main wireless router on the other side of the house. Encryption works, since, as far as the Amiga is concerned, it's a wired connection.

[platon42]

LoadWB wrote:
I'm thinking in terms of a hardware-accelerated USB stack.  I imagine a micro-controller on the USB card running the stack (with flash for updates) and a client on the Amiga side would run pretty darn quickly.

No it wouldn't. Most time is spent for memory copying, and a microcontroller won't help here, in fact it probably would be more of a bottleneck.

[platon42]

blanning wrote:
Is there a list of compatible usb ethernet thingies out there or will any of them work?  thanks.

brian

Ever considered looking into the manual? ;-)

Also, http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html will list the supported devices and chipsets.

[platon42]

cutaway wrote:
Hi
I'm in sort of the same situation, after reading the Poseidon guide file, I bought a USB->ethernet adaptor based on Moschip.
There's supposed to be a "moschip.class" in Poseidon (at least it is mentioned in the guide file as "included"). but the class seems to be missing in v4.2 and also in the older Poseidon versions.
Anyone know were I can get a hold of that .class file?

It is supposed to be included in release V4.3, but I didn't have time yet to finish it. You could mail me and ask for the class file.

[LoadWB]

platon42 wrote:

LoadWB wrote:
I'm thinking in terms of a hardware-accelerated USB stack.  I imagine a micro-controller on the USB card running the stack (with flash for updates) and a client on the Amiga side would run pretty darn quickly.

No it wouldn't. Most time is spent for memory copying, and a microcontroller won't help here, in fact it probably would be more of a bottleneck.

What's the difference between doing that and the TCP/IP hardware offloading provided by some server hardware?

[blanning]

platon42 wrote:
Ever considered looking into the manual? ;-)

Also, http://www.platon42.de/poseidon.html will list the supported devices and chipsets.

I can't find a good list of manufacturer/model numbers vs chipsets anywhere.  I have a 3com 3c19250, but can't figure out what chipset is in it, or which one to buy for that matter.

brian

[fragment]

I just bought this. It works with the dm9601eth driver which was addded in Poseidon v4.2.