Wireless PCMCIA Card - Freezes Amiga

[bigwall68]

Friends,

Via EasyNet or Miami.  When online is initiated, card power light goes off and A1200 freezes.

Card is from Amigastore and has Speedtouch printed on it.  Driver used is Prism2v2.



Any insight?  Thank you!

[Pat the Cat]

A1200s all shipped with a hardware bug on the PCMCIA slot - a reset signal from a PCMCIA network card tries to reset the whole operating system.

Most likely, anyway. If you google " Amiga CC_Reset fix" you should find a homebrew solution, or you can buy an off the shelf gadget that just plugs over the Gayle chip.

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=637

[bigwall68]

Odd because I never remember having to purchase one for my last two A1200s.

Thank you for insight.

[kolla]

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardReset
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardPatch

[bigwall68]

You guys rock!

[bigwall68]

Downloaded and installed.  Added lines to S-s.  Still freezes.

Darn.

[giZmo350]

Try running SnoopDos... maybe will come up with something... just a thought.

http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/SnoopDos

[scuzzb494]

Downloaded and installed.  Added lines to S-s.  Still freezes.

Darn.

When I put my card online I click on the cardreset tool which I have on the desktop. Each time I click it I get a warning message that the program failed and I should suspend or reboot. I simply suspend but it drives a bulldozer through and puts the card into gear. I then fire up Miami and from my configuration I highlight the card from the list and then put online from that card and not from the online at the bottom of the Miami interface.

For me I then rum NMBD and launch Samba to network with my other kit but you can equally have the card configured to go online/internet. Mine is ethernet cable ... can you try a hardwire instead.

PS Download 'Scout' from Aminet to check your network activity.

[Pat the Cat]

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardReset
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/CardPatch

Good call on testing it with software first Kolla. I couldn't log in to comment further earlier (my email account was banjaxed yesterday).

Downloaded and installed. Added lines to S-s. Still freezes.

Darn.

Hmmm... maybe somebody already did the fix and it's gone bad?

Check around pin 5 of Gayle, should be a capacitor or resistor pulling it the right way - might have got detached. There's any number of places where the other end can connect to, but pin 5 is the Gayle pin that needs a tweak.
 
 Just to show I'm not messing you on this...

http://ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/PCMCIA_Reset_fix/pcmcia_reset_fix.html

They really were all built wrong. Or rather, they were built different, as there weren't any PCMCIA network cards at A1200 release date to test them with.

If you got spare A1200s that work with that network card, then obviously it's that particular A1200 that has the issue.