Realtek 8139 + MiamiDX + DHCP => reboot

[koshman]

Hi,
I recently bought a Mediator 4000Di for my A4000D. After a few initial issues, I have a Voodoo3 running in it happily now in 1680x1050 24bit. Yesterday I installed a fast ethernet PCI card with the Realtek 8139 chipset, but I`m not able to make it run. I`m using MiamiDX evaluation version and the connection is through DHCP. I set all the parameters according to a guide, using the SanaII fast ethernet driver supplied by Elbox on the MM CD. When I hit the Online button I get the message "Finding IP addresses, please wait", after a second the Amiga freezes and reboots.
I have the VoodooMem variable set to 8 (also tried the suggested 15 with the same outcome). The Voodoo is in the second slot (from the bottom)
 and the ethernet card in the fourth (the topmost one).
I also tried to lower the resolution to 640x480 8bit, because I don`t know how much of the Voodoo mem the ethernet card needs and 1680x1050 must consume quite a lot, but it didn`t change anything.
The rest of the A4000 internals are standard - 16MB fast, A3640 3.2, no other cards, no battery leakage damage.
I can try experimenting with the card positions. Can the problem be the DHCP? Is there any way how to set my router to do the DHCP part so that the Amiga can be set to a static IP?
I`m probably gonna get a 10Mbps card, because the fast ethernet ones stress the Amiga HW a lot I heard, and 10Mbit should still be plenty fast.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Radim

EDIT: I`m using Bloodwych`s ClassicWB 3.1.

[matthey]

I had a bad 100Mb Ethernet card initially. I got another and it worked fine. The shipping costs more than the cards on E-bay. I did have some problems with the old drivers on the CD that is sold with the Mediator. I registered via e-mail and the new drivers they sent me work great with Miami or Genesis.

[klapdeur]

Hi,
I recently bought a Mediator 4000Di for my A4000D. After a few initial issues, I have a Voodoo3 running in it happily now in 1680x1050 24bit. Yesterday I installed a fast ethernet PCI card with the Realtek 8139 chipset, but I`m not able to make it run. I`m using MiamiDX evaluation version and the connection is through DHCP. I set all the parameters according to a guide, using the SanaII fast ethernet driver supplied by Elbox on the MM CD. When I hit the Online button I get the message "Finding IP addresses, please wait", after a second the Amiga freezes and reboots.
I have the VoodooMem variable set to 8 (also tried the suggested 15 with the same outcome). The Voodoo is in the second slot (from the bottom)
 and the ethernet card in the fourth (the topmost one).
I also tried to lower the resolution to 640x480 8bit, because I don`t know how much of the Voodoo mem the ethernet card needs and 1680x1050 must consume quite a lot, but it didn`t change anything.
The rest of the A4000 internals are standard - 16MB fast, A3640 3.2, no other cards, no battery leakage damage.
I can try experimenting with the card positions. Can the problem be the DHCP? Is there any way how to set my router to do the DHCP part so that the Amiga can be set to a static IP?
I`m probably gonna get a 10Mbps card, because the fast ethernet ones stress the Amiga HW a lot I heard, and 10Mbit should still be plenty fast.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Radim

EDIT: I`m using Bloodwych`s ClassicWB 3.1.

Hi there

there's no problem for getting the amiga side a static ip at least put it in the range of the router. for example if you have a pc that has an ip of 192.168.1.100 give your amiga a ip like 192.168.1.101

the submask is mostly 255.255.255.0
gateway is the ip of the router example:192.168.1.1
dns adresses are the ip from your ISP.
if you dont know them look on a pc side at the networkconnection status en there you would be able to find the dns adresses. if not browse the internet for your ISP dns adresses.

that should do it to get your amiga online.

as far for the dhcp and static ip on amiga it doesn't matter as long you choose a ip thats not in use.

hope this works for you.

regards
klapdeur

[adolescent]

Slots shouldn't matter.  AFAIK, voodoomem should be 16, not 8 or 15.  Run medconfig and let it set all of the variables for you.  

You can run pciinfo to see if the cards are showing up correct.

[koshman]

@ matthey: thanks for the suggestion, I should register with Elbox.

@ klapdeur: Thank you. I will try set up my Amiga this way.

@ adolescent: The cards show up correctly with pciinfo. Also MiamiDX says "Finding IP addresses", which I think means that it sees the card and is doing something, because when I use a different driver I get an error message.
MedConfig suggests VoodooMem=15, but I will try it with 16.
I also don't think the slot position matters much, but some people swear it makes a difference...

[doctorq]

As for VoodooMem, you have to set it to something below 16. If you set it to 16, you use all the ram on the Voodoo board, and there is no room left for the fast ethernet card. Set it to 15 and you are fine, this way there is 15 MB for video ram, and 1 MB as a buffer for the cards that needs it (like the fast ethernet card).

FYI, the Mediator uses the graphics card ram as a buffer, so without a graphics card installed, a Mediator equipped Amiga can only use a small range of PCI cards. Fast ethernet cards and soundcards will be unusable for instance.

You can test if the ethernet card is useable by querying the device in Miami. If it brings up a MAC adress, the card is suitable and your problem lies elsewhere, probably in not having added a DNS server to the DNS server list under databases.

[koshman]

Yes, I can get MAC address when querying.
The DNS might be a problem, but the freezing and restarting bother me more right now

[koshman]

Well, it does the same thing with Genesis so I guess it's probably the ethernet card. I ordered an old Genius 10Mbps card, I'll see how it goes with that.