10 July 2021, 22:07 | #1 |
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a4000 with mediator and spider usb - mice and drives not detected
So I have an a4000D with a mediator card installed. In the mediator I have installed a sound card, and ethernet card and a radeon 9200 card. I decided to then install a spider usb card.
However, it's not from elbox, but one I got for free that I flashed the eeprom with a modified vendor ID so it would appear to be from elbox. I've installed poseidon 4.5 and spider.device 3.21 (I couldn't find 3.22). Trident sees the controllers and the devices. All are green and appear to be online. I've also installed w95 and it's located in L: When I plug in a usb mouse or a flash drive, I get nothing. No messages in trident, and no lights on the flash drive or the mouse. I have 2 of these usb cards, both of which behave the same way. |
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Best guess? The firmware wasn't flashed right? Sounds like everything else should work. I think spider.device 3.22 is basically only available on the CD that comes with the card, and Elbox I think in the past has been rather pissy about people distributing it.
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I would assume it flashed correctly since I'm able to add it in trident using spider.device
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Try older Poseidon, i think 4.4
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Is there a problem with Poseidon 4.5?
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I own 2 spider-II cards and they came with CDs with version 3.22. The only way to get the driver is by buying a Spider-2 or owning a preowned one and getting it registered with Elbox who will send you the driver by E-Mail. Have read online about flashing the EPROM on these but good luck ?? |
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When you ran these commands from shell did they go through okay? AddUSBHardware DEVS:USBHardware/spider.device 2 AddUSBHardware DEVS:USBHardware/spider.device 0 AddUSBHardware DEVS:USBHardware/spider.device 1 I know when I’ve tried with a real Spider card I’ve had errors try8 g each of these commands. |
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You probably just didn't choose the right NEC card. I tried a few different models of generic NEC USB cards until I found a couple that worked correctly. The ones that did not work correctly acted the same as yours, the card would be detected but no devices would ever show up. Or low speed devices worked like mouse or keyboard but HiSpeed would never work. The BGA versions of the NEC chip never did work for me. |
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Mine look like these. I've tried both, and they behave the same.
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This was years ago so unlikely I have the .bin, but I followed Mechy's original guide. If you dump the contents of your EEPROM and it looks the same then you should be good. Otherwise it's just a matter of the wrong make of card.
The other thing is the Spider is kind of picky what slot it works in, I usually have to put it in the bottom slot of the Mediator in the Desktops or the Towers. So maybe try the bottom slot or reorder your PCI cards. |
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I followed Mechy's guide from his post over at Amiga.org. All of the picture attachments appear to be dead so I can't say whether it's exactly the same but I assume it is.
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On my A1200 mediators (1200 TX black and 1200 original 2000) I’ve used Spider-II USB cards. On the TX I’ve got mine on pci slot 4 (out of 6). Don’t forget the mediator relies on the Graphics card for most of its operation. Also check Pciinfo to see what interrupts each card is being assigned, it sounds to me you are getting a shared interrupted on the USB with something else. You should see 3 interrupts for the USB ports. |
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I gave up on my spider long ago (as I wanted to use OS4) and bought a Rapid Road + X-surf. Best thing I ever did for the Amiga. If I didn't already have a zz9000 for my other Amiga, I would consider one for it too.
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