Atarian Computing's Raven Build

[agranlund]

@Atarian Computing yes that is normal.
There's 4MB reserved by the bios for different things. A huge chunk of that is wastefully reserved for simplicity. Some related to "make it work first, optimise later" and some are for ideas that may or may not end up being a thing.

[Atarian Computing]

@Atarian Computing yes that is normal.
There's 4MB reserved by the bios for different things. A huge chunk of that is wastefully reserved for simplicity. Some related to "make it work first, optimise later" and some are for ideas that may or may not end up being a thing.

Whew again. Thanks. Maybe I could compile a FAQ at some point if that's ok with you? I'd also like to help with the project in any way I can so just let me know.

[Atarian Computing]

I had a lovely weekend. The Raven is 100% built now. I spent most of the weekend on the Raven. I had a blast. Just bought a USB 3 -> 2 internal adapter and a Logitech MX Keys Mechanical (tactile) + Ergo S trackball. They both use Logi Bolt. Works perfectly with a single dongle at the front.

This honestly is a joy to use. Getting myself back to speed with MiNT so it's been a pleasure running memory protection for a change. I also have TT-RAM at copyback cache settings without issues. Super stable setup! I'll write a review of sorts later.

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[PhilC]

Looks like a great setup.

[agranlund]

Nice setup indeed, and I'm really glad to hear it's been working out smoothly!

Maybe I could compile a FAQ at some point if that's ok with you? I'd also like to help with the project in any way I can so just let me know.

Any such help would be greatly appreciated! By me and I'm sure by others too since the documentation is really lacking

[Atarian Computing]

Nice setup indeed, and I'm really glad to hear it's been working out smoothly!

Maybe I could compile a FAQ at some point if that's ok with you? I'd also like to help with the project in any way I can so just let me know.

Any such help would be greatly appreciated! By me and I'm sure by others too since the documentation is really lacking

Looks like a great setup.

Thanks guys! All right, I'll get cracking at some point with some documentation.

[Atarian Computing]

I got my NIC in mail just now. It's a AXE2021 so my ISA_BIOS.INF has this line:

dev.AXE2201.AXE2201.io = 300

The ISA_BIOS.LOG has this now:

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UIP.TOS will not start and flashes a driver load error. After copying ENEH.XIF into my MiNT folder and setting up MiNTNet, nothing works apart from setting the IPs and routes.

@agranlund Got any ideas?

[agranlund]

PNP80d6 is the generic NE2000 identifier so that AXE chip is at least claiming to be NE2k compatible.

My best guess is maybe the Hades Etherne driver is somehow RTL8019 specific rather than only using common NE2000 registers?
UIPTools code (which comes from AVR version originally) says RTL8019 and maybe the same thing applies there.

I only have RTL8019 based cards and haven’t tested those things with other chips. I want to recall someone having trouble with those drivers and a different NE2k compatible card?

[Atarian Computing]

PNP80d6 is the generic NE2000 identifier so that AXE chip is at least claiming to be NE2k compatible.

My best guess is maybe the Hades Etherne driver is somehow RTL8019 specific rather than only using common NE2000 registers?
UIPTools code (which comes from AVR version originally) says RTL8019 and maybe the same thing applies there.

I only have RTL8019 based cards and haven’t tested those things with other chips. I want to recall someone having trouble with those drivers and a different NE2k compatible card?

Thanks. It is a RTL8019AS chip and seems to be a very similar card to @luciodra as shown in viewtopic.php?p=122573#p122573

These are my card's eBay listing images.

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So the MiNTNet loader can read the MAC and also it seems to receive thousands of packets but not sending. Also, my Unifi switch sees nothing, neither does my pfsense router.

Maybe I'll try to find another card but they are really scarse...

[PhilC]

@Atarian Computing I couldn't get the driver to work with plug and play cards. You can manually configure the chip for the correct port and IRQ by lifting some pins.

Have a look at this

viewtopic.php?p=131802&hilit=Rtl8019#p131802