Sting Setup

Sting setup for use with an ethernec networking card.

I assume that the reader has some basic understanding on TOS and its derivatives.

First one needs an 68k Atari: ST, TT or Falcon. It should have at least two megs of ram, the more the better. I presuppose the use of a hard drive. Second an Ethernec which is an ne2000 compliant networking card with realtek 8019 chipset an an adapter to the Atari romport. The only 68k Atari which can't easily be setup for internet use with this is the ST-Book.

Software needed is the tcp/ip stack Sting, a driver for the networking card (enec3.stx) which can be found in etherne.zip as enec.stx, and the editor Qed or another one that can write 'real' tabs. Further there should be depackers for Zip and Lzh archives at hand. It is suitable to install wdialog if not using multitasking. Last piece of software is the readily installed Xcontrol.

The Ethernec is placed into the Ataris romport. Then the Atari can be powered on. On the boot drive one makes the folders 'auto' and 'gemsys'. I'd advise to use an additional folder 'data' for the needed archives. Furthermore I suggest to put the applications into a folder 'apps'. The Sting archive has to be unpacked and the data from the unpacked 'auto' folder are moved to 'c:\auto\'. The folders 'sting' and 'cpx' are moved to 'c:\gemsys\'. Now one gets 'enec.stx' from the Etherne packet or 'enec3.stx' and puts it to 'c:\gemsys\sting\'.

... to be continued ...