Dear Amiga Gurus:
I have decades of Unix networking experience but I've been humbled by trying to get this one particular system on my home network.
I purchased an X-Surf-100 in December 2022 from AmigaKit for a heavily upgraded Amiga 2000 that I inherited from a family member. The card is installed, there is a hardware link light, and the switch reports a 100 Mbps link up on the other end, but beyond that I'm not sure if the NIC is even being seen by the OS. I downloaded Sysinfo and while it sees 2x GVP and 1x 2127 (Sunrize) Zorro II cards, there's no indication of the X-Surf-100 card (which I would presume would have the manufacturer ID 4626 for Individual Computers).
Complicating matters is that I have purchased EasyNet and AmiTCP 4.3, neither of which ever installed cleanly; both had corrupted content one way or another. I may have myself to blame for this... lacking a means for floppy installation or an external CD drive, I've tried to copy the EasyNet disc into a ZuluSCSI CD image and similarly had to make an ISO with AmiTCP 4.3. (The hope is once I have network connectivity, the need for removable media is greatly reduced.) I can see the CD images in Workbench but I get complaints about missing and/or corrupted files.
I made one last attempt by downloading and installing AmiTCP 3.0B2. The install stage went fairly smoothly (having to work around the known weirdness with the root password prompt and hung login at startup), but the network device just isn't seen. Specifically, after doing the Variant 1 hackery according to https://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=708048&postcount=6, my AUX serial console shell reports "(xs100 10) No ethernet card found or initialization failed" during at startup.
Is there a means to test if the card is at least working up to level 2? From there, what would be the best way to get it to use any TCP/IP stack?
Danke,
Grog