10base-2 to 10base-t media convertor?

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/6/07, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I'm in the same boat - Amigas with 10base2 only.  Pretty much anything
> > > else I have that does networking has 10base2 _and_ an AUI at least.
> > >
> >
> > My A3000 came with a network card with rj45, very lucky there.
>
> I am wondering how hard it owuld be to remove the 10base2 transceiver
> chip from the Amiga's network card and kludge on a 10baseT transciever
> circuit. If the former is something standard like an 8392, it should be
> pretty easy.

It would probably be fairly easy to do that - ISTR the A2065 had a
pretty standard LANCE implementation.  The host side was
Amiga-specific, but I expect there weren't any clever tricks on the
media side of the LANCE chip.

-ethan