uip-tool

[bladeomega]

Any news about uip-tool? I used it yesterday to copy some MiNT files from my PC to my Atari TT and it work very well and fast.

[susher]

Hmmm... uIP-tool doesn't work on my TT with a Netusbee-lite.

I thought, after looking at the source, that the timing loops for 1ms, 10ms and 100ms delays might be the issue as it might be trying to read the device too quickly. (uIP-tool doesn't get a MAC address even though all other diagnostic programs for the device show no problem.)

What version are you running?

(uIP-tool works fine with the same Netusbee-lite device on my STE and two of the three other STs I have.)

[bladeomega]

I use UIP-Tool version 43 and this works with and without my Cattamaran (CPU-speeder) so I think the timing is not the reason. Your ROM-Port is right and the LEDs are glowing?

[sqward]

susher: There's not much I can do. It looks like some TTs have odd rom port timings. I have friends who own several TTs and half of them doesn't support Netusbee.

[jonord]

susher: There's not much I can do. It looks like some TTs have odd rom port timings. I have friends who own several TTs and half of them doesn't support Netusbee.

My early revision TT works well with the Netusbee. Maybe later revs have problems?

[susher]

Well, my TT is not that late. Pre-HD floppy update and came with TOS 3.05.

I'm guessing that I have corroded contacts on the cartridge port and need to find a reliable way of cleaning them.

[sqward]

What exactly do you mean when you say it's not working?

[Showaddywaddy]

Hi... when I run uIP-Tool (v43) on my MSTE *and* Falcon it shows the MAC address but freezes after "DHCP:". No IP address is displayed.


Any ideas?

Shw

[sqward]

Showaddywaddy: If MAC address is the same on both machines then we can assume Netusbee is rather functional. I would say it's incompatibility between UIP and your router. If possible check with another router (DHCP server).

[Showaddywaddy]

sorted.. thanks... it was a problem at the PC end.

Ace util!

Cheers
SHW

[felicemaggie]

Usually, as long as your 'net connection (from either Mac or PC) is shared, then this should give an IP address to the Atari system, for easy transferring of files

Cheers.

[dbsys]

I seem to be unable to get any further with using the uIP tool.

When running "uipV43.TOS" I get the following:

uiP tool, version 43
RTL8019 init .. MAC: 0:bb:69:16:88:bd
DHCP: (blinking cursor)

This is it.

I tested this on a TT030 and a Falcon030 with my NetUSB card.
It looks like uip is waiting to get an IP address via DHCP which does not seem to work in my network.

What am I doing wrong?

[mikro]

Well, one way to fight this is to fire up Wireshark and analyse the network traffic.

[dbsys]

I found the problem and was able to fix it.

My DHCP server was down. Sorry.

[dbsys]

In the meantime I was playing around with the uip-tool and found it very useful and easy to use.

I followed the advise to use Chrome instead of Firefox and found that Chrome works a lot better for me. It's feels a lot quicker and I like the fact that I can now upload complete folders with content to the hard drive of my Falcon. Very good.

My question is: Can I also download complete folders with content from my Falcon's hard drive? So far I was not able to do this. I can download single files only, one by one.

[dbsys]

I believe I found a bug in uip 43:

As soon as I try to access an empty partition or an empty floppy disk via Chrome browser, I will get the following error message in uip:

GET: dirpath not found 2

It looks like uip thinks the path does not exist.

The moment I locally store something on that empty partition or floppy and try again to access via Chrome browser, it works.

[sqward]

Will have a look when I hook up my falcon again.

[LuigiThirty]

How much memory does uip-tool need? My ST has 1.7MB free and the program crashes with an insufficient memory error.

edit: Cleaned out my AUTO a bit, looks like the answer is a little over 1.6MB.

[dbsys]

Will have a look when I hook up my falcon again.

Hi sqward, did you have any chance to hook up your Falcon again?

I wonder what you found out....

[czietz]

dbsys, as I pointed out to you in the Atari-Home.de forum, this is due to incorrect handling of EFILNF, the error that is returned by Fsfirst on a completely empty drive/partition. It is of course up to sqward to fix this.

[sqward]

dbsys: Are you still able to copy files to that empty drive? It's just incorrect error message? Sorry, I have no Atari with empty drive at hand and looking through the code that error message shouldn't break the functionality? Want to make sure what the defect you're reporting really is. Thanks

[dbsys]

dbsys: Are you still able to copy files to that empty drive? It's just incorrect error message? Sorry, I have no Atari with empty drive at hand and looking through the code that error message shouldn't break the functionality? Want to make sure what the defect you're reporting really is. Thanks

sqward: Copying files to an empty drive does not work for me. As soon as I have put just one file to this drive manually, I then can copy more files using uip.

You can easily test this. Try to copy a file to an emtpy floppy disk and you will see what I am talking about.

Thank you.

[sqward]

I don't have a floppy drive in my Falcon sadly. Will fix it though.

[arf]

I don't have a floppy drive in my Falcon sadly. Will fix it though.

Use a RAM-Disk instead?

[simonsunnyboy]

Just a notice as I was toying around today, files shared with uip-tool can be retrieved via command line.
If one knows the path on the Atari, a wget url can be constructed like this:

Code: Select all

http://falcon30.localnet/d/BACKUP/F030GAME.ZIP


Accessing file D:\BACKUP\F030GAME.ZIP for download.

I wish uip tool would provide a URL list for a given directory to be able to automatically download from a given directory.

Still an awesome tool to have around.