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OS4 compatible ethernet cards?
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I have to buy a new ethernet card for my Amiga today but I can't quite remember the model numbers of compatible chipsets.

I found an RTL8139 based card in Maplin and I'm 99% sure that the 8139 is one of the RTL chipsets that works but just wanted to make sure before I bought it.

Can anyone confirm this? Just listing the RTL drivers in your Sys:Kickstart is enough.

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I have to buy a new ethernet card for my Amiga today but I can't quite remember the model numbers of compatible chipsets.

I found an RTL8139 based card in Maplin and I'm 99% sure that the 8139 is one of the RTL chipsets that works but just wanted to make sure before I bought it.

Can anyone confirm this? Just listing the RTL drivers in your Sys:Kickstart is enough.


Officially supported are:

RTL8029 (10Mbit)
RTL8139 (100Mbit)
RTL8169 (1000Mbit, but due to other constraints not really fast)

Best bet is the 8139. But beware: everything but 8029 needs fully working DMA. So especially for a Classic only 8029 is supported (or use the 3rd party drivers).

On A1 you can also use eth3com with compatible PCI cards (sorry, don't remember the exact 3com chip anymore.. some 905 or so).

And on SAM you have the built-in 100Mbit ethernet of the 440 PowerPC.

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Excellent, thanks. I just wanted to double check and just bought one. Amazing - a piece of off the shelf hardware from Maplin for ?6.99! I'm impressed!

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