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cnvogelg / plipbox

The plipbox Arduino HW Adapter to bridge Amiga PLIP to Ethernet
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Using plipbox with Pitstorm32 lite, Emu68 & Roadshow #16

Open tlgrooms opened 1 year ago

tlgrooms commented 1 year ago

I have recently set up my pistorm32 lite in my 1200 and installed os3.2, on the latest emu68 and the RTG picasso96 drivers. I own Roadshow also and have tried installing the plipbox.device driver and Roadshow on it. It installs OK and starts OK. I have set a fixed ip and set up the dns servers and gateway, all configured properly but can't get it to work. The debug shows it sets the ip address properly and netmask but I can't get out. Tried pinging names and direct ips. Not getting anywhere. Tried pinging my router directly with it's ip and cannot ping it. I can ping localhost and my ip and it shows working ok, just can't get out.

Is there any kind of problem with using the plipbox with emu68 and the pistorm32 lite? I have set up the hard drives and installed os 3.2 and everything else appears to be working fine. Is there something I am missing? I have used the plipbox on my 1200 before without a pistorm without any problems. Thanks for any help.

craziazkowboi commented 1 year ago

Check the issue https://github.com/cnvogelg/plipbox/issues/3

It may work for you too. In my Amiga1000 with an 68030-TK2 accelerator I had the same symptoms as you until I :

1) Recapped my mainboard and power supply 2) Added a heatsink to the chip behind the ethernet interface (not the nano, its fine) 3) switched to using USB to provide power and not the Barrel connector. Also using a USB power brick - 5v, max 2.5amps, not a USB port.

Worked flawlessly from there. And just today I received my v3 Plipbox from Amiga68k.com, which runs even better - faster, cooler, and no heatsinks needed.

Good luck for your own journey!

powaking commented 1 year ago

What worked for me was to set the NOBURST in envarc:sana2/plipbox.config file. This is on my A1200, Pistorm32 and MiamiDX/Genesis. Although with Genesis I had to set a static IP but MiamiDX worked with DHCP. No matter what I tried (heatsinks on the ethernet chip, can't use USB as its right up against my case) I could not get it to work without the NOBURST setting. May want to give that a try and see if that works for you. Once you set that setting be sure to power everything down, power up plipbox then boot up your Amiga.

tlgrooms commented 1 year ago

NOBURST also worked for me. Thanks guys for the info.

When I reboot the machine I have to power off the plipbox to get it to reset and work. Is that normal? Anyway to do it without restarting it every time as well?

powaking commented 1 year ago

I sometimes would have to do that. My plipbox has a Nano on it with a reset switch. Sometimes that works but when it doesn't then doing a full power cycle is the obvious solution.