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   Message 1,862 of 2,243   
   poison to Joacim Melin   
   Re: amiga   
   12 May 20 16:35:00   
   
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   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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