kilaueabart wrote:@nbache
After considerable difficulty getting back on line the next day (today) I seem to have an "auto ethernet" which survived a reboot. It seems to have a different IP address, although IPv4 wasn't mentioned in the data I got yesterday.
When you use DHCP, the router or DHCP server decides which IP it wants you to have, so it can differ (within the ranges set up for DHCP on the server). IPv4 is the only one supported in AmigaOS, so just stick with that. If it hadn't been v4, it would have been a much longer string of numbers (hex numbers) than the four you got.
I went to Amiga. Maybe I just don't know how to use Prefs. It insisted I pick a device driver, and listed a bunch of mysterious options.
You should pick the driver matching you network card or hardware. For instance, I have a network card with the RTL8169 chipset, so I picked "DEVS:Networks/rtl8169.device". The type is Ethernet, and the unit most likely 0 (zero). The name at the top is what you want it to be, your choice.
I figured I didn't want anything PPP so I tried the others one by one. At one point the DHCP thing got unghosted, so I checked it and unchecked Static IP. When I saved, it asked me, as it had for each of my device driver guesses, whether I wanted it to do something,
Probably something like restarting the network?
and again I said yes. This time, instead of telling me it couldn't make a connection, it was "Waiting for network to shut down ..." I don't know how long it would have waited, but I'm two weeks short of 83 and don't have that much time to wait, so I rebooted to Ubuntu and was much relieved to see that "Auto Ethernet" remained valid.
It can sometimes be difficult to make the network restart automatically. What I usually do after changing anything in Internet prefs is say no to the restart, save the prefs and reboot AmigaOS.
I don't have any other Amigas in a LAN. I will probably go back to connecting the X5000 to a router along with my Raspberry Pi 3 (necessary for printing on my HP Officejet Pro 8710 from Ubuntu, although the Amiga side prints by itself). Would fixed IP addresses work in that situation?
Fixed addresses should normally work, if you choose an address which is not already in use on another machine in the LAN, and which the DHCP server will allow you to use. But you can also use DHCP for your X5000 and only use a fixed address on the print server (RPi), if you prefer. You will probably have to check and maybe setup ranges for fixed vs DHCP IP addresses in your router's DHCP server user interface.
Best regards,
Niels
