Emulated MacOS and TCP/IP

[Ryu]

Im slowly going mad here...

I need to emulate a mac environment and I need Ethernet TCP/IP networking so I can install OS8.6 on my CD-Rom-less laptop...

Now I have OS7.5.5 installed under shapeshifter but no matter what I cant seem to get TCP/IP working with ethernet...

Ive tried MacTCP, Open Transport, direct sanna-II emulation and through vlink.device with no luck...

So any help much appreciated...

[frakswe]

did you disable the tcp/ip stack on the amiga side?

from the guide:

" - When using MacTCP, neither AmiTCP nor Envoy may run concurrently on the
   Amiga side on the same Ethernet card."

[Ilwrath]

What computer are you tring to run the Mac emulation on?  If it's a Windows OS, you need to add a protocol to Windows to allow the TCP/IP access to the emulation.

[Ryu]

@Ilwrath

well this is an Amiga forum, Im an amiga user... so.... yep, you guest it its an Amiga :-)

[Ryu]

@jhogs

Yeah of course I made sure there was no TCp?IP stack running, Ive read every FAQ I could find and it still wasnt working...


However, after going against what one FAQ said I switched to using Open Transport and setup vlink and now it works, although painfully slow...

[adolescent]

Ryu wrote:
@Ilwrath

well this is an Amiga forum, Im an amiga user... so.... yep, you guest it its an Amiga :-)

I think the confusion was the mention of installing on a "laptop".  I would have asked the same question.

[ncafferkey]

What network card and driver are you using on the Amiga? Both cnet.device and 3c589.device have a hack in them that adds four bytes to the reported length of packets. This is apparently needed for Shapeshifter and Fusion compatibility. If you're using a different card/driver, perhaps it doesn't allow for this.