From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:57:09 +1000
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Kris Steenhaut 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
Hi Kris (and others) - I'm still working on the 2200BG issues (from a 
user search and configure point of view - I am now the developer).

  I have had the IBM 2200BG part as supplied in the ThinkPad T42 working 
under eCS 1.2 *** AND *** I now have the Toshiba 2200BG Mini-PCI card, 
that I bought on eBAY, working in my T30 (with the 1802 bios patch to 
allow a non-IBM part) WORKING !

  The breakthrough was that there was an application conflict with the 
VPC application driver (I had removed all of the networking drivers but 
missed VPCAPP) as soon as I removed this and rebooted, the system 
connected to my Linksys WRT54G router immediately.

  I have however changed SO MANY things in getting to this point, that 
my notes would not help anyone, so I am now de-installing GENMAC and 
WLANMON (also cleaning all references in OS2.INI and will document a 
total re-install - noting the points to watch for as I go.

  My conclusion is however that as long as the Mini-PCI Card returns the 
8086:4220 ID, it "should" work with GenMac no matter if it's a 
Generic-Intel, IBM, Toshiba, Dell etc, card.

  I'm about half way through the re-install. I'll let you know when I 
have documentation that creates a repeatable (successful) result.

By the way this is being done under eComStation v Beta2.2, however I 
would exepect the procedure to also work under eCS 1.2.

Cheers/2

Ed.