From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 419348 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: <452AEB2A.1000909@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:36:58 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Intel 2200bg and Windoze (was: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Status on WPA) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/09/06 08:04 pm, Kris Steenhaut thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal ha scritto: >> On 10/09/06 07:30 pm, madodel thus wrote : >>> Lewis, >>> >>> Have you tried using the Intel 2200bg with any flavor of Linux? >>> Here when I tried it with Xandros on my T42p, Linux showed several >>> APs but wouldn't connect to any (including my own). Damn thing only >>> works with windoze, which makes me wonder if windoze has adjusted >>> something that screws everything else up. It did work great with >>> eCS 1.2R for several weeks until I booted to windoze. >>> >> I have not had an opportunity to try the 2200bg with Linux, Mark. I >> did find that with a BIOS upgrade to the T43, the Intel 2915 would >> not work in eCS (though it did in Windows). have you tried jogging >> your system BIOS at all? >> > I did, and there was no difference, alas. > > Anyway, it seems the 2200bg included in some Thinkpads is different > from the one Mark, Ed and I bought separately and had installed > afterwards in our TP. > I doubt it, though I have no direct knowledge one way or the other. > So mayby it's a driver problem after all. But as IBM has ditched OS/2 > as well as it's Thinkpad, how on earth are we going to sort that out? > Considering IBM's involvement with Lenovo (IBM owns 18.9% of Lenovo), the statement that IBM has ditched its ThinkPad is a tad premature. All the new ThinkPads I've seen (and I've moved about a half dozen this past week) still say IBM on them, and these were models which came out after the handoff to Lenovo. IBM hasn't removed support information for older ThinkPads, either, and AFAIK, neither IBM nor Lenovo purposely breaks the BIOS so as to make it unusable with other OSes. The fact that the T43 BIOS update seems to disrupt GenMAC's ability to detect the PCI ID string is more than likely something within GenMAC, and not a deliberate attempt on the part of IBM or Lenovo to make the T43 "Windows-only." -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------