ZZ9000 network setup woes.

[SmoothRunnings]

I have a A2000. 2Meg Agnus, Fat Olga o3o, ZZ9000 with the works (has the sound card), and a Freeway Triton Lite.

I also have an icomp VGA output card which I haven't gotten around to removing yet, and serves no purpose.

Everything works great, with the exception I cannot figure out how to make the NIC work in Amiga OS. The drivers are installed.

The o3o came with Amiga OS 3.2.1 installed on it with all the stuff the dev uses, so it didn't have roadshow which I own a copy of and installed last night, he uses Gensis or something. The bottom line is I cannot figure out how to connect it. It's currently plugged into network. So, I would appreciate some help from the experts. I have tried the ZZ9000 forums but there just isn't enough activity there, plus I wasn't satified with the lack of answers I got over getting the USB to work so I could copy stuff from my PC to the Amiga; hence why I got a Freeway Triton Lite.

Thanks,

 

[Boing-ball]

I have a A2000. 2Meg Agnus, Fat Olga o3o, ZZ9000 with the works (has the sound card), and a Freeway Triton Lite.

I also have an icomp VGA output card which I haven't gotten around to removing yet, and serves no purpose.

Everything works great, with the exception I cannot figure out how to make the NIC work in Amiga OS. The drivers are installed.

The o3o came with Amiga OS 3.2.1 installed on it with all the stuff the dev uses, so it didn't have roadshow which I own a copy of and installed last night, he uses Gensis or something. The bottom line is I cannot figure out how to connect it. It's currently plugged into network. So, I would appreciate some help from the experts. I have tried the ZZ9000 forums but there just isn't enough activity there, plus I wasn't satified with the lack of answers I got over getting the USB to work so I could copy stuff from my PC to the Amiga; hence why I got a Freeway Triton Lite.

Thanks,

Okay for Internet. You need 1 and only 1 TCP/IP stack program. Forget Genesis as it’s out of date. Use Roadshow.
Check user-startup for any mention of Genesis. Either put a ; at the beginning of the syntax or delete this line or you may get conflicts. Then reboot the Amiga.

Next follow the installer for Roadshow, this will setup the TCPIP stack software and put a new entry in User-startup as well as setup network interfaces and Networks in Devs to startup the TCPIP stack software. This will not configure your Network card!

Next get the ZZ9000 driver (Either install it ) or copy the driver into Devs Networks (This will have been created by roadshow).

Now go into Storge/Devs Netinterfaces. Find a files that represents the ZZ9000 card. If no match then copy something like FastEthernet or similar.

Now you can edit that file you put In Devs Networkinterfaces. This allows you to either use a Static IP address or a DHCP to get an IP address from a Router.

Also download this handy tool (Roadshow doesn’t include this):

Aminet - comm/net/Roadie.lha

aminet.net

A useful tool for an all in one GUI that if you use the right mouse button for configuring Roadshow files, check connection or unconnect and connect Networkcards configured etc…

Good luck

 

[SmoothRunnings]

Okay for Internet. You need 1 and only 1 TCP/IP stack program. Forget Genesis as it’s out of date. Use Roadshow.
Check user-startup for any mention of Genesis. Either put a ; at the beginning of the syntax or delete this line or you may get conflicts. Then reboot the Amiga.

Next follow the installer for Roadshow, this will setup the TCPIP stack software and put a new entry in User-startup as well as setup network interfaces and Networks in Devs to startup the TCPIP stack software. This will not configure your Network card!

Next get the ZZ9000 driver (Either install it ) or copy the driver into Devs Networks (This will have been created by roadshow).

Now go into Storge/Devs Netinterfaces. Find a files that represents the ZZ9000 card. If no match then copy something like FastEthernet or similar.

Now you can edit that file you put In Devs Networkinterfaces. This allows you to either use a Static IP address or a DHCP to get an IP address from a Router.

Also download this handy tool (Roadshow doesn’t include this):

Aminet - comm/net/Roadie.lha

aminet.net

A useful tool for an all in one GUI that if you use the right mouse button for configuring Roadshow files, check connection or unconnect and connect Networkcards configured etc…

Good luck

Ok, so I followed this video because I could not get it work. I suspect it might have been running already when roadshow started but not being able to see any indication it was other than running Roadie and it giving me an error saying the ZZ9000 driver already exists. I ; all the AMITcp and Gensis stuff out of the startup, I added a static IP to the file in netinterfaces (off the time of head), and this video of a guy running roadshow on his Vampire (below) lead me down the path were I set the excution on the S:network-startup file and ran it after. I can ping my Amiga but because the DNS nor Gateway IPs are setup it cannot reach the internet and when I looked the name_resolution file which only opens in MutliView I couldn't edit it to add the name servers and domain name. Also I couldn't figure out where to put the Gateway IP address.

Thanks,

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[SmoothRunnings]

NVM I figured it out.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Boing-ball]

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running Roadie and it giving me an error saying the ZZ9000 driver already exists

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Yes this is normal. Clicking the connect button will then work, as Roadshow has locked it from a previous attempt on startup.