Gary Hildebrand said: Also known as transceivers, the best thing since sugar coated cheerios. I mainly use CentreCOM (Allied Telesis ?). They work just fine. Nice haul btw :) -- jht

--- Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> wrote: Yes. An ordinary 10BaseT transceiver. Nothing magical (thankfully). I have a couple. If you haven't used one before, you'll need a TCP/IP stack and a semi-modern version of AmigaOS (2.0x or higher, IIRC). Don't forget to check the state of the jumpers up by the BNC - it's how you select AUI vs Thinnet. The two flavors of drivers are "SANA-2" (Standard Amiga Networking Architecture v2) and "MNI" (Miami? Network? I??) - a more efficient (but proprietary to Holger Kruse's Miami stack) driver standard (less buffer copying, among other things). There are SANA-2 and MNI drivers for the A2065 and for my GG2 Bus+, among other network cards. The A2065 is unremarkable, but it _is_ the gold standard for Amiga networking cards. As you already know, they aren't cheap. I did a brisk business selling a $135 ISA adapater to which you added a $25 (at the time) ISA NIC, in large part because I _had_ stock (still do ;-). You couldn't get a used A2065 for under $200 a few years ago, let alone new. So few were made that several new designs came out years after Commodore went away - there was that much demand. These days, there are several possibilities for network cards that we just didn't have back then. OTOH, the A2065 card is _the_ card to have to run AMIX (*BSD supports it _and_ the GG2 Bus+) If you have never used an Ethernet card with an Amiga, it's a great experience. It add lots of life to the old girl. There's AWeb and AMosaic for browsers (don't know what the current offerings are), NFS clients (NFS server packages are rare and typically not freeware), FTP servers and clients, telnet, Samba, all the usual stuff you'd expect. Networking software is an add-on for most versions of AmigaOS. Packages include Miami, AmiTCP and AS225. There's also Envoy, a Commodore-produced AmigaOS peer-to-peer stack for printer and disk sharing. I have several original copies left from when I used to bundle them with GG2 Bus+ boards, if anyone is interested. It's only useful if you have multiple Amigas on the network, being a proprietary stack, but it's efficient for native-mode sharing. Good find. It's the most compatible, best supported network card for the Amiga. You can't go wrong. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/