PCMCIA Network card advice!!!
 

Hi guys!

Ok i want to add ethernet to my 1200 and have been looking at these pcmcia nic cards and the reset fix I have to sort out!

I have a compatible list (which is a little bit out of date) so I have a pretty good idea which one's work and dont etc...

My local pc contact/supplier can get me this one:

CNet CNF401 10/100Mbps RJ45 32bit PCMCIA Network Card

I need to know if this is incompatible or if anyone knows any decent links on this subject!

//admin: please don't use direct signature in your post, configure your UserCP instead.

if it's NE2000 compatible then it should works. BTW no need to do hardware modification to get a reset card. Just grab CardReset on aminet.

Good info frog, now, does this little app also work on other Amiga models?

I don't know this card but it should not work because you wrote it is a 32 bit card (cardbus interface ?) and Amiga's PCMCIA slots are only 16 bit interfaces !!!

.... and btw. not ALL Ne2000 compatible cards work on an A1200 :(

So what your saying is it should be 16bit and when stocks of these cards dry up! the amiga 1200 is dead in the water as far as ethernet goes :( unless you buy an add on board like the AmigaOne etc...

all i want to do is network my 1200 to our pc's for file sharing!
i forgot about the pcmcia slot being only 16bit :(

why cant these 32bit cards be backwards compatible?

You could try the parallel port solution. £15 and you get direct access to all your PC devices just like a true network.

For all the info you'll need, read this thread:

Parallel PC2Amiga network solution

If you have any questions regarding the above, then ask them here! :)

Here is a quote from the above thread containing some info on the subject (I love quoting myself! :) ) :

Nah m8! ive been down this route already and its just to dam unreliable for me :( my amiga worked fine the other day and now pc2amiga is dead again??????????

it just wont work this time! it keeps timing out? same settings as the other day too. im whacking workbench back on but i know it wont last if it works again :(

its time for a REAL network where it will work everytime i need it.

Oh someone slap me! :rolleyes How could I forget your "PC2Ami problems" thread I posted in a couple of days ago! :confused

Please forgive my pathetic idiocy electro! Sometimes I read threads without looking who posted them.

*hits himself several times*

Yep, that's better. :D

Try to get a Fiberline 4680 (hope that´s the right one ;) ) ! It´s really cheap and definitely works with the A1200 ! Or try to get one of that compatability list you got from ebay, should be really cheap :)

Hey Blood! no worrys old chap :) if it works for you then dont change it... just ive had bad luck with it :( but then again this is the one from Aminet, not the kit you bought m8!

have you got any links for this card m8? sounds like you had good luck with it :)

Sorry, but I don´t use that one ;) I got myself a noname PCMCIA 10MBit card and it works fine, but I know the Fiberline works cause a lot of people report it does :D

where did you get your card m8?

has it got any numbers on it...

Nope :( It is a really NONAME card !! Only thing on the front side is "10 Base Ethernet" and "PC CARD" and I bough it at a local dealer for my Laptop, but found out it works on my A1200 :)

Well, the CardReset.readme tell it need an A600/A1200.

Oh and about the network card itself, you can find useful (?) info on cnetdevice archive. Here is a link with latest cnetdevice : http://adsl-100-156.kymp.net/~p/sw/cnetdevice-1.7.lha

Here goes an advice and a request for help, at the same time :)

3Com cards wont work. They have plastic thing on their borders that wont make it fit onto the lsot. Seems they dont like to follow PCMCIA2.0 standards :P

Any other card you guys can recommend me?

Or you can just pull the PCMCIA Card out and put it back in again after booting up for the first time like I do. :)

I bought my PCMCIA ethernet card on eBay for £20 - they are tons of them about - don't worry about them drying up - mine was brand new! (16-bit ones are cheaper I guess)

The card I bought is a "Kingston KNE-PC2T", and it works flawlessly!

I can not recommend it enough - basically because it works :)

How fast is the connection using these cards and a 020 A1200 on read/write?

EDIT: I've just read speeds are around 350K/s. Sound right?

Well, I currently only use Amiga ethernet to FTP CAPS dumps over to my PC. Therefore I only use FTP programs.

System config (and the only one I have tried):

Amiga 1200 /w Blizzard 030@50Mhz
Genesis TCP/IP (the one that comes with OS3.9)
Transferring off a 3.5" 540Mb HD

In SimpleFTP I get about 40 Kbytes/s (!!!)
In GUI-FTP I get 250Kbytes/s

So you see the speed very much depends on your software as well as your hardware. However it would probably be a lot faster transferring from RAM.

Problem is - GUI-FTP does not support transferring multiple files stupidly enough. Can anyone recommend a better FTP program?

- Aha! I just found "ncFTP" for the Amiga... I use this at work - it rocks - and is meant to be the fastest Amiga client... I will test this soon.

Anyway believe me, once you have tasted even 250 Kbytes/s - you will never be able to go back :)

@fiath

How about installing SMB-Connect on your Amiga and mount your PC Drives on your Miggy :) Then you won´t need ANY ftp programm anymore and can even use your PC´s CDRom :D