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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.

115 Ariadne

Ariadne by Village Tronic

A SANA II compatible zorro bus ethernet card with two parallel ports.

* Supports 10base-2 (thin ethernet, coax) and 10base-T (Twisted pair) * Socket for boot rom * hook up to two additional Amigas to the paallel ports with Liana (Envoy with a cable) * A 32kbyte cache to support cpu * Includes Envoy and SANA II driver for ethernet and parallel ports

GG2-Bus+ card =============

The GG2 Bus+ by Software Results Enterprises lets you add IBM-compatible hardware to your Amiga. The most common additions are extra parallel and serial ports, and _network_ cards.

The GG2 Bus+ is NOT a 486 bridgecard, and does NOT run windows, it merely allows you to access less expensive PC cards.

GG2-HW Compatibility

GG2-PC drivers

GG2-SW Compatibility

GG2-Requirements

GG2-Availability

GG2-HW Compatibility --------------------------------------------------------------

The GG2 Bus+ supports almost all non-DMA AT-compatible (8 MHz bus capable) PC plug-in boards. This includes such popular items as internal modems, multi-I/O boards, IDE hard drive controllers, non-DMA ethernet boards, VGA boards, A/D boards, etc. Access to the PC cards is at full Amiga Zorro II bus speed unless wait state support is turned on.

GG2-PC drivers ------------------------------------------

PC drivers included with GG2 Bus+ are:

ibmser.device

A replacement serial device for internal modems and multi-I/O cards. Includes automatic use of the 16550 FIFO buffer when available. Support for up to 4 serial ports at once, equivalent of COM1-4.

ibmprint.device

A new parallel output-only driver for printing through IBM LPT compatible parallel ports on multi-I/O cards. Support for up to 3 printers at once, equivalent of LPT1-3.

ibmIDE.device

A driver program to allow the use of IDE, RLL or MFM hard drives.

NE1000.device and NE2000.device

These are SANA-II ethernet drivers for Novell NE1000 and

NE2000 boards and compatibles.

NE1000 is 8 bit card, 8K memory

NE2000 is 16 bit card

GG2-SW Compatibility ------------------------------------------------------- GG2 Bus+

Since the Ethernet drivers are SANA II compliant, you can use your GG2/Ethernet combination with all of the popular network packages, such as Envoy (from IAM), AS225r2 (from Commodore) and AmiTCP (available via ftp from Aminet sites).

Commodore's AS225r1 is *not* a SANA-II networking package, and will not work with an Ethernet card on a GG2 Bus+.

Oxxi's Novell Netware Client software is *not* a SANA II networking package and will not work with an Ethernet card on a GG2 Bus+.

CrossPC and PCTask software PC emulators are aware of the GG2 Bus+ and will let you use IBM-compatible hardware from inside the emulation. Among other IBM peripherals that have been successfully operated are, ROM programmers and PC-television cards.

GG2-Requirements ----------------------------------------------

The GG2 Bus+ occupies one Zorro II slot aligned with an PC-AT slot in an Amiga 2000, A2500, A3000, or A4000. It has essentially the same form factor as a Commodore bridgeboard. You will need at least one additional open PC-AT slot for your plug-in PC card. The GG2 Bus+ requires 1 Megabyte of available AUTOCONFIG memory space to correctly map all of the PC memory locations. All address and data lines to the PC bus are buffered to avoid loading-down Amiga bus lines.

Most of the software requires 2.04 or higher. The actual device drivers themselves (ibmser.device, ibmIDE.device...) will probably work under Amiga Dos 1.3, but the support programs (like SwitchControl and SerPrefs) don't.

GG2-Availability -----------------------------------------

GG2 Bus+ is $119.95 USD

All sales are being handled by Software Results Enterprises , so there are no distributors in any countries.

 

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