PCMCIA Wifi?

[alexh]

Originally Posted by tonyyeb

Wifi card drivers... are they generic? from aminet?

They are not so much generic as in they are PRISM2 drivers and so work with all WiFi cards which use the PRISM2 chipset. But I thought we went through this?

[tonyyeb]

Yes alex... i'm sorry. you have already stated that. it must have slipped my mind. I wont let it happen again...

[hit]

Originally Posted by alexh

If you look in the MANUAL (WinGUIDE) of the driver above it has some recommendations for cards.

Netgear MA401

i've got a MA401 which is a pc-card. so it wont work on a 1200/600. they only can use PCMCIA type II cards. so dont get the wrong one ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card ).
Edit: MA401 just in my case, other cards might have different version while using same name too.

[fryguy]

The MA401 works fine in A1200, im using one myself. It's 16bit PCMCIA not Cardbus.

[hit]

Originally Posted by fryguy

The MA401 works fine in A1200, im using one myself. It's 16bit PCMCIA not Cardbus.

ah, damn. i was sure there was something wrong, while i was posting. cardbus is the newer version. sorry, for making extra trouble here

[alexh]

PC Card = 16-bit (analogous to ISA)
CardBus = 32-bit (analogous to PCI)
Express card = 1-lane + USB2.0 (analogous to 1x PCIe)

[Unknown_K]

It works, I had an Lucent wavelan running on my A1200 a few months ago, had to turn secutiy off since that card didn't even have WEP (I use the same brand but Silver version with my mac laptops that does 64bit WEP, the Gold version does 128bit WEP). That cheap non WEP card is only 2Mb while the WEP enabled versions are 11Mb. Even at 2Mb I never noticed a speed difference between the wireless card and my wired 10/100 ethernet adapter I used on the same machine with the same TCP/IP setup. Networking on an A1200 is not exactly fast.

If every computer you have is password protected (shared drives, server, etc) its not that big of a deal. Anybody who realy wants to get into your system can one way or another.

[alexh]

It's not so much gaining access to your computer as packet sniffing the traffic between your computer and router and being able to decrypt them.

[Unknown_K]

I was under the impression that when you sniff the packets between a computer and the router you get its local IP, and MAC address. With that I can then spoof packets using the IP and MAC address and every computer on your internal network will think I am on that machine, so any shares and services that clones machine has I would have.

Since I just use Amiga explorer transfering files from my server to my Amiga there is nothing sensitive to worry about. I am not logged into my server, browsing ebay, logging into a bank acount, etc. Now if somebody sniffed the rest of the networks packets they could snag that kind of information, or possibly place illegal content on the network.

I only enable wifi when I use my laptop outside, and only remove security when I tested transfers on the wifi card in the Amiga. Just about every machine I have is using wired ethernet anyway.

[alexh]

Communications to ebay, your bank etc. are all encrypted locally. Any packets a hacker could detect would be useless.

If a hacker cloned your IP address and MAC address he'd still have to authenticate (assuming your network had passwords etc.) which he couldn't do.

All they could do would be attempt an exploit hack (security hole), view your plain text data, access the internet, perhaps create a MAC conflict between you and your router.

[musojon74]

Hi all. Is there a really good guide to set one of these cards up (I bought an MA401 from Ebay). It seems to physically work, light flashes when disconnected, when you try to connect light stays on and flickers a bit. Easynet installed, also have Miamidx. Nothing seems to work, I've never managed to ping anything which isn't local, have tried both static and dynamic IPs.

Thanks guys!

[amigakit.com]

Goto EasyNet's help menu and select Network Configuration Help

Post this output and I will tell you why it is not working...

[musojon74]

Thanks!

Output is:

++ EasyNet Information ++

Version = $VER: EasyNet 0.165 (30/05/06) AmigaKit.com
bsdsocket.library = 3.28


++ Network Settings ++

Your IP address = 192.168.1.10
Network SubNetMask = 255.255.255.0
Router/Gateway IP = 192.168.1.254
Your hostname = amiga
Network domainname = btinternet.com


++ Domain Name Servers ++

Primary DNS =
Secondary DNS =
Tertiary DNS =


++ Network Interface ++

Device = prism2.device (unknown version installed)
Wireless Settings = C:SetPrism2Defaults SSID BTHomeHub-1E63 KEY 1ae853d118 (version 1.2 installed)
Library = pccard.library (unknown version installed)


++ TCPIP Settings ++

MBUF_CONF MAXMEM = 256K
Use Name Server = First
Use Loopback = Yes
Debug SANA = No
Gateway Mode = No


++ Hosts ++

192.168.1.254 router
127.0.0.1 loopback
192.168.1.10 amiga


++ Assigns ++

Assign AmiTCP: "System:AmiTCP"

[amigakit.com]

You havent set any DNS settings in EasyNet.

Is your router really 192.168.1.254 ?

[musojon74]

Ah yes, removed DNS settings, forgot! Still didn't work with them in.

Yep - the home hub is on 192.168.1.254, just browsed to it to confirm from Ubuntu laptop.

Thanks!

[amigakit.com]

May be best to quickly try without the WEP enabled.

[musojon74]

Gonna have to go to bed now! Did try without wep earlier, I didn't seem to get on any better. I will have another look tomorrow evening. I do appreciate your assistance though AK!

[illy5603]

Originally Posted by musojon74

Gonna have to go to bed now! Did try without wep earlier, I didn't seem to get on any better. I will have another look tomorrow evening. I do appreciate your assistance though AK!

If you can ping hosts on a local network, the only reason I could think of that you would not be able to ping internet hosts would be your default gateway. Either the entry is incorrect or the gateway is not able to route properly. DNS is only going to affect name resolution, not the ability to reach other hosts via IP address.

[musojon74]

Hi - thanks! Pinging internet or router from Amiga is currently failing unfortunately. I must be missing something really obvious I guess - the leds on the netgear suggest it's happy running on the amiga, and it can be queried (when i tried Miami) to get its settings.

[e5frog]

Are there any wireless network cards that works for a standard Amiga 600 - with the 2.05 Kickstart 37.350?
Would it help to actually have it network connected when wanting to transfer adf-files or is a CF card the best way to go anyway?