Wireless card installed with Prism2 driver now what?

[amigadave]

I looked for this information in a couple of places and did not find anything yet, so I will add it to this thread, as it is related.

Has anyone tried a Prism2 compatible wireless card and Amiga 68k driver inside a G4 PowerMac in the Airport card slot while running MorphOS2.x to see if you could get a wireless connection for MorphOS2.x that way?

[carvedeye]

I tried that but the key mustn't be working I will try another keyboard.

[carvedeye]

Well i have given up, i just simply cannot get it to work i have edited the startup 3 times now and each time i edited it i ended up having to do a clean install of AOS 3.9
so if anyone would like to make me an offer for the wireless card then fell free to PM me.

[ncafferkey]

I looked for this information in a couple of places and did not find anything yet, so I will add it to this thread, as it is related.

Has anyone tried a Prism2 compatible wireless card and Amiga 68k driver inside a G4 PowerMac in the Airport card slot while running MorphOS2.x to see if you could get a wireless connection for MorphOS2.x that way?

The driver would need to be modified first, but it wouldn't be huge job. The original Airport card uses a Prism-II chipset too.

@carvedeye

You never told us whether you've ever used anything else in your PCMCIA slot. Bad wireless settings won't prevent the device from being opened by a TCP/IP stack.

[amigadave]

Well i have given up, i just simply cannot get it to work i have edited the startup 3 times now and each time i edited it i ended up having to do a clean install of AOS 3.9
so if anyone would like to make me an offer for the wireless card then fell free to PM me.

Don't give up, if an old geezer like me can get it working, any Amiga user should be able to also.

I haven't used my A1200's wireless connection for anything since before last year's AmiWest 2010 Show, but I remember I had to mess around a little to get it working.  It is just not that interesting to me to use wireless networking on a Classic Amiga, even though I have an 060/50MHz w/256mb RAM & IndivisionAGA, surfing the Internet from Classic Amigas is still a slow and unsatisfying experience.  I will still use it to transfer files when I need to move more than a few mb's of data, but other than that the wireless NIC on the A1200 won't see much use.

Heck, even die-hard Classic users like Franko use a more modern computer to access the Internet.

[nicholas]

Well i have given up, i just simply cannot get it to work i have edited the startup 3 times now and each time i edited it i ended up having to do a clean install of AOS 3.9
so if anyone would like to make me an offer for the wireless card then fell free to PM me.

Which board do you have in your trapdoor and how much RAM do you have installed on it?

I seem to recall that some older boards with >4MB Fast RAM cause the PCMCIA slot to malfunction.

[carvedeye]

The expansion card I have is the Apollo 1230 lite lc with 8meg of ram.

[desiv]

The expansion card I have is the Apollo 1230 lite lc with 8meg of ram.

There you go..

This card is NOT PCMCIA friendly when more than 4MB of RAM is fitted.

from:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107

desiv
p.s.  I see some memory jumpers on the pic for that board.  Perhaps you can disable some of the RAM using those??

[Jose]

I don't see a problem with using unencrypted connection. You'll still be using SSL for sensitive data, i.e. online banking, paypal, etc. so that data will be encrypted.
The only problem IMHO might be someone using your internet connection or, worst case, trying to get to other devices on your network if you have any, like mediaserver or whatever... If these last things don't concern you (most internet sevices are unlimited nowdays anyway) it should be fine.

[Zara Amiga]

The expansion card I have is the Apollo 1230 lite lc with 8meg of ram.

I have a £0.99 1-day auction for a much better card that works with more than 4meg of ram if you are interested.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270726747771

Thanks!
Zara

[TheGoose]

There you go..

This card is NOT PCMCIA friendly when more than 4MB of RAM is fitted.

from:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107

desiv
p.s.  I see some memory jumpers on the pic for that board.  Perhaps you can disable some of the RAM using those??

Ah ha! good to know there was an answer to this mystery.

[carvedeye]

There you go..

This card is NOT PCMCIA friendly when more than 4MB of RAM is fitted.

from:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107

desiv
p.s.  I see some memory jumpers on the pic for that board.  Perhaps you can disable some of the RAM using those??

so if i set the jumpers to use just 4 meg of ram will the 8 meg ram downgrade to 4 meg?

[nicholas]

so if i set the jumpers to use just 4 meg of ram will the 8 meg ram downgrade to 4 meg?

In theory, yes.

Not much fun using 4MB RAM though.

[desiv]

so if i set the jumpers to use just 4 meg of ram will the 8 meg ram downgrade to 4 meg?

It's worth trying..
Sometimes that works.
It did with my Microbotics 8M RAM (not accel) card, but it was designed for that.  It even had software to enable/disable the extra 4M if I wasn't going to use the PCMCIA.

I'd say give it a shot..

desiv

[carvedeye]

So does anyone know what jumper settings i should use?

on the accelerator the settings look like this:  


[--] RAM
[--] 4/8

(i hope you all understand the little pic i did)

[carvedeye]

well i managed to set my accelerator to 4 meg but still no further forward