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- From: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Networking. (was: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!!...(in misc))
- Message-ID: <34194@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 02:19:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug4.060027.19657@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <1992Aug8.221532.12683@ <1992Aug10.054335.25646@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Aug11.002122.526@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <1992Aug11.132326.14393@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Reply-To: gregm@cbmvax.commodore.com (Greg Miller - Amiga Networking)
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Aug11.132326.14393@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> mx8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug11.002122.526@regina.cs.uregina.ca>,
- >gorrie@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dennis Gorrie) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug10.054335.25646@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> coup@crs.cl.msu.edu.UUCP (Chris Klaus) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Does anyone know whether ethercards are available for Amiga 500 ?
- >>>if so how much? or is there any future plans to market ethernet cards?
- >>
- >> It would be easy to hook up a Xircom pocket ethernet adapter; they
- >> plug into the printer port. Then you just need someone to write
- >> a packet driver for it. Any takers?
- >>
- >
- > No, don't do that! There's a much easier way -- Get the SlingShot
- >board for the 500 (gives you one 2000 slot on a 500). Then plug in an A2065
- >card. Works fine, provided you have a hard drive and at least 1 Meg
- >(preferably more). I have tried this myself, so I know it works. The 2065
- >also works fine in the Bodega Bay.
- >
- > You could go the parallel ethernet route, but no one is writing the
- >packet driver, and I understand this to be a daunting task. Performance is
- >lower, too. You'd also have to write a socket.library for that device, too,
- >'specially if you wanted to use the newer Amiga networking software.
-
- Actually, someone would have to write a SANA-II driver for one of those
- little gadgets. You wouldn't have to go -near- socket.library. :')
-
- - Greg
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- Greg Miller "Violence never settles anything."
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