From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:11:27 +1000
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*** MAJOR Correction *** - The text below should say I am NOT the 
developer, not  I am NOW the developer !!!!

Quite honestly I would not know where to start !!

I believe with the correct sequence of actions, this card will work with 
the Genmac driver - I am trying to define those steps.

Cheers/2

Ed.


Ed Durrant wrote:
> 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).


    ***  THAT SHOULD READ "NOT THE DEVELOPER" !!!   Ed.

> 
>  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.
>