Subj : Re: amiga
To   : Joacim Melin
From : poison
Date : Tue May 12 2020 16:35:00

None of the wireless would support anything more than WEP though right?
-=> Joacim Melin wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

 RM> Hi poison!

 RM> 11 May 2020 10:15, from poison -> All:

 po>> I am kind of interested in playing with an Amiga. What would be good
 po>> still usable hardware that would work on the internet?

 RM> I have an Amiga 1200 that I connected to the Internet once.
 RM> It has IDE and PCMCIA connectors.

 RM> I used telnet and ftp on it.

 RM> You can use wired Ethernet and WiFi PCMCIA cards.
 RM> You need to have a driver for them.
 RM> There are some supported Ethernet cards and 1 or 2 WiFi cards.

 RM> I think I used a Lucent WiFi card with an OPEN network.
 RM> (I think in the meantime one of the drivers support WPA ???)

 JM> I've only used wired cards. There are actually many PCMCIA cards to
 JM> choose from and many of the 3Com cards from the time works (and
 JM> Farallon which was based on 3com:s chipset). If nothing else you can
 JM> always buy a card for like 30 euros (or dollars) complete with the
 JM> software needed to get going.

 JM> If you go for an older Amiga you can get a ethernet or wifi card for
 JM> the A2000 (X-Surf-100,
 JM> https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/x-surf-100.html) or the
 JM> PlipBix for the A500 or any other Amiga
 JM> (http://amigaonthelake.com/amiga-plipbox-parallel-port-ethernet-adapter/
 JM> ).
 JM>  The Plipbox is _slow_ but it will at least get you connected to a
 JM> network and allow you to transfer files via FTP. NFS or SMB is not
 JM> recommended for that.


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