This is the AmigaOS network driver ("SANA2") for the build-in network chip ("Microchip KS8851") of the Amiga 1200+ project.
Current beta Version (1.0 build 3) seems stable. Work is still in progress...
- AmigaOS >= 2.01
- Written in "C" very small parts of 68k assembler... ( yes! :-) )
- Parts are based on my old Etherbridge project
- Amiga SANA2R3 compatible (S2_DMACopyFromBuff32 supported, S2_DMACopyToBuff32 still left)
- Working with Roadshow (others should also work but not yet tested)
- Speed: ftp pull: (about 230kb/s), ftp push: (about 430kb/s), measured with ACA1233-26 (68030/26) and a FTP server network + ftp command line tool from Roadshow distribution
- Device can use network chip in big endian or little endian mode (initial switch to big endian)
- Adjustable Ethernet mac address from config file (network chip in Amiga1200+ has no special eeprom for ethernet MAC address)
- Device supports a two layered architecture (low and highlevel) which may in future make it easy to port it to other network chips. Layers are:
- Highlevel AmigaOS network device driver (complex)
- Lowlevel driver which support raw access to the network ship itself
- makefile creates ADF images
- No network statistics are currently available: All are „zero"
- In receive direction, packet content is memory copied into temporary buffer which slows down speed a little bit
- Support for S2_DMACopyToBuff32 is still missing
- With „slow" network connection (10MBit) or with faster processors (>= 68040) transmitted packets may be lost in some situations
- IPv4 multicasts not supported yet
- loopback mode not supported yet
- promiscuous mode not supported yet
- Heavy use of Disable()/Enable() methods which may reduces responses in the multitasking environment of the AmigaOS a little bit
- No AmigaOS installer script yet (only a small shell script which copies the files into the right place)
- The latest release version can be downloaded here: V1.0
The device is called "ksz8851.device" and must be installed in "devs:networks" of the AmigaOS installation. There is a simple script which copies the device and a configuration file to the right place. No installer script now but will come in near future.
You need a 68k cross-compiler to build like GNU gcc 3.3 (see https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc ).
On the bash execute:
make ARCH=020 which builds the release version for MC68020. If you want the debug version than execute
make ARCH=020 debugIf you have connected your Mac or PC via serial cable with Amiga Explorer, you can directly install it on a real Amiga via
make ARCH=020 installMore comming soon...
GPL V2.0