nbache wrote:Good. Will you tell us what your workaround was (for the sake of future readers)?
Sure, I will write something more... structured soon.
I'm not sure about this - is that via a Mediator board or something? I don't have a busboard in my A1k2. For network, I just use a PCMCIA Ethernet card. But I believe some other users/beta testers have them and can maybe tell more.
But in general: You can't necessarily expect drivers to have been written for OS4 for every piece of hardware which was once usable under OS 3.9. Every driver has to be written by someone, and normally that someone needs a specimen of the hardware in question as a minimum for testing. And even then, this would be a vast effort, and in most cases for very few users, if any.
Best regards,
Niels[/quote]
I purchased this LAN card as compatible with OS4.1 (from Amigakit.com). So, I'm disappointing since it is NOT supported "out of the box" (I already have the same LAN card I used successfully with Mediator). Apparently this is some sort of ID issue of this LAN card that is not recognized by driver. Additionally I was hoping that Final Version of AOS4.1 will have those type of issues fixed. It is not like we have tons of new HW for A1200 released every year
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I will try to solved issue with LAN card using advice from on of other topic in this forum.
It is GREAT to be able to run AOS4.1 on classic but at the same time, it is very frustrating due to issues I have. I was expecting more refined product. When I got AOS3.9, it was a pleasure to install it. Put floppy/CD inside and all worked great. Sure, I had to run manually all Mediator drivers, etc. but it actually worked. Here I can't even INSTALL this system in regular way, despite my hardware being basically GENERIC: A1200, PPC, FastATAV, Mediator, Radeon/LAN. Nothing amazing and everything carefully selected to be "compatible". I'm not going to even mention that I need to take FastATA out to be able to do installation (with use of OS3.9!).
I will keep you updated, for future reference. Thank you for help, but please understand my frustration. I'm not new into Amiga... "issues", but I really wanted to have "FINALLY" system that simply works out of the box.
EDIT: Amigakit.com did not list LAN card I got as AOS4.1 compatible.