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21 April 2023, 01:29
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PCMCIA ethernet card won't start until re-inserted
I use a Netgear FA411 PCMCIA ethernet card on my A1200, but one thing that has always bugged me is that it never works when I first turn on my Amiga.
I have to remove and re-insert it at least once before the lights come on, and then soft reboot. Previously I had far more problems (I'd have to reboot a dozen times or more and pull it in/out several times), but a recent recap and a hardware PCMCIA reboot fix device seems to have improved reliability. However, it still does not work on first boot. Soft reboots do nothing - the ethernet lights on the card do not come on until I've physically pulled the card out and put it back in. Is there anything I can do? |
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21 April 2023, 09:54
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21 April 2023, 10:32
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What OS? 3.1, 3.1.4, 3.2, 3.9???
As I have simular issues with PCMCIA transfer cards. Worked fine before 3.2, now I have to mess around to get it to mount cards. i.e. put adapter in first, wait a few seconds, then insert card into adapter and it mounts it. If I push both adapter and card in together, it never mounts. |
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21 April 2023, 16:44
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No issues here, A1200 OS3.2.2 with cardpatch and cardreset. I have 2 cards a 3Com and DLink both work from cold and warm boots with no messing....
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21 April 2023, 16:48
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I'm not having any issues with my EtherLink III card on 3.2 and I didn't have any issues on 3.1 before that. I am pretty sure I used cardpatch/cardreset on 3.1.
I don't think I've done that on 3.2, but will have to check. I virtually never take the card out. It hasn't been removed for months (possibly over a year...). And I use the Ethernet all the time. MiamiDX starts when I boot... |
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21 April 2023, 17:20
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I have same issue with my Shinenet PCMCIA Ethernet card but I have had some success changing the timing of the reset pulse in Cardreset parameters. It’s not perfect now but a lot better. I have no such problems with my Greycell NIC so I think it depends on the manufacturer and individual A1200s seem to behave differently too for me.
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21 April 2023, 19:32
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The 2 cards I mentioned above are working fine in 2D and 1D4 mobos here...
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24 April 2023, 02:35
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CardReset/CardPatch seem to have fixed it, thanks.
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24 April 2023, 08:47
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Vodka monster.
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A more neater solution is to actually fix the problem at hardware level using this...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165083108...mis&media=COPY |
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24 April 2023, 09:00
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I have one installed (mentioned in the first post), but it didn't fix the cold boot issue. |
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