Amiga ethernet PCMCIA Adaptor ?

[carvedeye]

Hi all ive just recently won an ethernet adaptor for my a1200 and need to some info on how to get it up and running here is the item i won on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310347454826?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649  any help will bbe grateful

[Matt_H]

It'll be either this driver or this driver. Which TCP/IP stack are you using? Genesis and Miami should both be pretty easy to set up.

[amigakit]

EasyNet software supports ethernet drivers such as 3c589 and CNet:

[carvedeye]

Ok so i have just purchased EasyNet from amigakit and have also purchased some edo ram for my accelerator card as it is not pcmcia friendly with more than 4mb of ram. when they both come i will give it another try and see how i get on and get back to you all, fingers crossed it works, if it doesn't then i will be very sad

[carvedeye]

Ok so i have installed my new ram i have done a hot swap with my network card ran genesis the installatin went great andi encountered no errors i can go online but wheni start Aweb and try to enter an address like http://www.google.co.uk it does not allow it saying "Error While retrieving URL:http://www.google.co.uk" any ideas?

[amigakit]

That sounds like the DNS havent been set up correctly in Genesis.

[bbond007]

Ok so i have installed my new ram i have done a hot swap with my network card ran genesis the installatin went great andi encountered no errors i can go online but wheni start Aweb and try to enter an address like http://www.google.co.uk it does not allow it saying "Error While retrieving URL:http://www.google.co.uk" any ideas?

check DNS settings

[cunnpole]

No idea about this card but could it be a DNS issue? if you try by IP does it work? (http://www.google.co.uk resolves as http://209.85.146.147)

Do you get your ip over DHCP? or use a manually configured static address?

If you need to specify a DNS server try OpenDNS Primary 208.67.222.222 Secondary 208.67.220.220

[carvedeye]

No idea about this card but could it be a DNS issue? if you try by IP does it work? (http://www.google.co.uk resolves as http://209.85.146.147)

Do you get your ip over DHCP? or use a manually configured static address?

If you need to specify a DNS server try OpenDNS Primary 208.67.222.222 Secondary 208.67.220.220

Yeah I get my ip over DHCP

[carvedeye]

Configured my network i can now access the google web page thanks, now all i need to do now is to share my pc drives with my amiga what is the best way to do this ?


Edit: Wow the internet on my miggy is actually pretty nippy thought it would go like a snail, im one happy miggy user

[Daedalus]

Sounds good For simplicity, SMBFS is probably your best bet for sharing PC drives. For the PC to see your drives you need to install the full Samba package, and that can be quite a chore - not to mention pretty slow. I use SMBFS to show the PC drives on the Amiga, and when I need to access the Amiga drives from the PC I use FTP with the quite good RC-FTPd server. RC-FTPd is on Aminet (http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/rc-ftpd) and the latest SMBFS is on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/amiga-smbfs/files/amiga-smbfs/smbfs%201.74/)

Edit: Shameless plug, but I've written a basic GUI for SMBFS which will help you avoid messing around with the command prompt... http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/SMBMounter

[carvedeye]

ok i have managed to get easynet installed and working, i have also installed aweb lite and smbfs (these where both included on the cd) so all i want to do now is configure my pc amiga so they can share drives so i can swap files between them both what steps do i need to take to get it working? all help is appreciated

[Darrin]

You have to love Easynet.  I remember buying it with a PCMCIA card for my A1200T, configuring it and wondering if I did it right.  Then I glanced at my screen and noticed a message stating it was downloading an update and thought "Yep, that looks like a good sign to me!".  

[carvedeye]

Do i need to install samba onto my pc?

[desiv]

Do i need to install samba onto my pc?

Not if you're running Windows..
Samba is just an (originally) Linux implementation of the SMB network filesystem or Windows network filesystem..

desiv