my 1200 is on my network with 3C589D-COMBO(exact model #) on a 3-Com "Etherlink III" PCMCIA type card with this adapter, PC Card LAN Cable 3CPC-COMBO-CBL (exact model #). I bought these in a kit on Ebay with a floppy that has AmiTCPIP, FTPMount and Filer & TSGUI. I suggest if you buy or are buying one without it saying it has a floppy, download these programs from Aminet. I have a feeling you got what I got though. It said all that stuff. Only way you're going to have a problem is if your Amiga happens to grab an IP another host is using. Then you probably have to turn off that host and when you turn your Amiga on (with that host, another computer off) your Amiga will officially have an IP. It's a little dingy. I don't have it mounted permanently but don't think I'd want that either. Because I'm using the PCMCIA on my 1200 for the Squirrel with CD-ROM too and also been playing with trying to get a Transcender brand CF type 1 card to work. I guess too much stuff mounting in the Startup-Sequence eats up your RAM. And I AM guessing. I'm not an expert.
So I used a cheap old old FTP program. In fact I actually used the version of Bulletproof FTP that they included on this mini-CD in the package with the "kit" that had the floppy, PCMCIA to RJ-45 adapter (network card) and mini-CD with some old dumb FTP progs on it. I used the old version because it's easy to crack. Heh. New FTP progs do internet lookup when you start them usually. K so:
1) Make a floppy with all those things above from Aminet on it and name it TCPIP. You should make it bootable.
2) run PCMCIA Driver (double click) If you have a switch or router with lights you'll see the light go on at this point! (this is where the 1st time it blew my mind that my Amiga was actually on the internet!)
3) (hard part) This is where you probably have to change something. Make sure the FTP is running and open to new connections on your PC. Try from another PC unless you have lots of experience setting up FTP. In the "FTPMount/Hosts" DIR of your floppy, you will see a single icon called PC. It's a drawer with a check on it. Single click on that then right click icon menu and goto "information."
4) do exactly like this for the 4 attributes HOST, USER, PASSWORD, SLOW
HOST=192.168.0.x (whatever your ip of the computer running the FTP is there. I'm going with 192.168.0.x because it's most common.)
USER=Anonymous
PASSWORD= (leave this blank)
SLOW (there is no = sign after this attrib and you will do nothing to it)
5) save the host file. And you do NOT have to use a text editor for this. Just use the "information" in icon menu. It'll work fine.
6) now make sure those programs are on a bootable floppy, or if already are, make sure you have that part saved to that floppy. Boot with the floppy. Then run PCMCIA Driver.
7) run FTP Mount (double click)
run Filer (the actual Amiga FTP client. there might be others but I don't know)
9) at this point you're probably in the FTP program and you'll see in the middle a device called FTP: (double click it)
10) It'll set you at a home dir that's actually still on the Amiga. Double click on PC in that left half of the screen. Then click on the "0 bytes free" bar on the other side. Double click HD0: or HD1: or DF0: or wherever you want to save to. The "Filer" ftp client makes drawers and icons for them so you don't have to leave it to do that. But it's picky and suddenly exits the FTP if you switch DIR too many times I notice. So put all the files your transferring into 1 folder and do all your organization on the Amiga.
That is it. It's not the absolute most efficient way of transferring stuff from PC to Amiga but without a doubt it's the coolest. I just have to find a web browser for Amiga now. I don't think I've looked hard enough. I hope this helps!
note: probably any further problems can be debugged from the FTP server program on the PC. Just make sure to use one nice enough at least that it logs what is happening with incoming and outgoing connections so you can see "wrong password" etc type stuff.
