MC1 Michael Czajka 7 Boyle Crt Sunshine Vic Australia 3020 ph +61-3-9311 8256 (h) +61-3-9352 5544 (w) E-mail: MC1@pobox.com http://mc1.boing.net Quicknet network card: The Quicknet card comes with a 2 way switch on the back. If you have the newest version of the card this switch does nothing. Loading the software: To make the non-auto loading quicknet work copy the quicknet driver to the devs/network directory. It appears the driver must be called quicknet.device otherwise it will not work. Setting up a TCP/IP stack: Any stack should do. However Miami seems to be particularly quick and easy to set up. Genesis is a TCP/IP stack that comes standard with WB3.9. It is perfectly acceptable although I have found the settings sometimes seem to reset themselves without external intervention and the Genesis Icon shrinks into a dot for no apparent reason. Miami comes standard with WB3.5 or is available free of charge on Aminet. Search Google for Aminet or just go to my web site links which should be pointing to the latest version of Aminet. Use the MiamiInit program to set up the stack. You usually get presented with Quicknet drivers with ID numbers 0-4. Any of them should work but 0 is usually a good choice. Set up your network as per normal: client, gateway, DNS server, etc... Stay with the default Amiga1 machine name unless you have a good reason to change it. Use default settings wherever possible. Miami was tested with a cable modem and correctly picked up the Gateway and netmask settings (it was working as a client ie. it goes via another machine for the internet). The Quicknet was also tested connected direct with to the cable modem and as long as you can establish what the DNS (Distributed Network Server) address is (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) you can connect without any other machine Nb. 192.168.0.1 is the default IP setting for a single machine. Netmask default is 255.255.255.0. ASk your ISP for the DNS? Save the miamiinit.config file. Run Miami (main program) & import the miamiinit.config file. This is necessary to load the settings correctly. If it's not working turn off any firewall and try again. Copy the "Miamiping" command which is in the Miami directory to the C directory. Rename it Ping (if you dislike long names). Run a CLI> and type ping 192.168.0.1 (usually this is your gateway machine). Or ping some other local address. Then try pinging something external (you'll need to know the URL of something external). Nb. The DNS address doesn't work. If it's not working go into miami manually and check the settings are correctly set. Sometimes you think they are right and they've changed themselves on you. Use static IP's rather than DHCP if stuff isn't working. Web browser: Load your web browser... and see if you can browse. If not you may have to set a proxy. More likely your TCP/Ip settings are stuffed: If the pinging is working but the web browser is unable to resolve the address www.rabbit.com.au (non-numeric) but allows you to view a page if you type xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (put the numbers of a web page in) then you've messed up the DNS settings. The DNS translates the words we type into numbers that computers understand. That's it. A very quick and detailed blow by blow explanation of how to set up any network card. Hope that makes life easier for someone. Michael :-) Older cards: If you have the older version of the card the switch automatically loads the driver into memory for you. In one direction you get the networking drivers... which only work with another Quicknet. In the other direction you get the Sana-II quicknet driver. The switch is not marked so you'll have to use trial and error. Nb. If you bought your Quicknet card off me it is the newest version and you will have to load the drivers manually. The newest version of the card usually comes with ethernet, AUI and BNC connectors. Most older versions of the Quicknet came only with BNC & AUI. On the older version you can use an AUI to ethernet adaptor but... RMF put the BNC & AUI connectors so close together you can not use a standard AUI adaptor. Special thin AUI adaptors exist but are very hard to obtain. If you de-solder the BNC the standard AUI would probably fit. I suspect a hacksaw would also do the trick but... that's butchery and I hope you won't do it. Alternatively there are BNC to ethernet adaptors. I'm not sure if they work but I have one and I really ought to find out if it works.