From: "Stanley Sidlov" Received: from mxout2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.166] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 422252 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:57 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXUKz-000KH1-4I for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:54 -0400 Received: from admin.nni.com ([216.107.0.100]) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXUKz-00083n-20 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:53 -0400 X-Scan:Scanned for Virus By NuNet Received: from [67.81.124.65] (account stanleys@cybernex.net) by admin.nni.com (CommuniGate Pro POP 4.1.8) with XMIT id 531493067; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:52 -0400 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:53 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Stanley Sidlov" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2300 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT(?): ThinkVantage? Access Connections Message-ID: X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:37:51 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote: >Anyone seen or tried this? To those of you who understand such >technical details: Any chance of taking advantage of some of this to >port something similar for OS/2? It would surely respond to a number >of the questions that have appeared here. I love this on Windows. The older IBM versions worked with any PCMCIA, USB or NIC. New versions only work with internal cards and controllers installed by IBM. Basically though it has two functions, to determine which comms devices are attached and working, and use the 'fastest' one. The second function is that of a profile saver. For wireless where there is a SSID, it can apply predetermined programs or defaults, such as a particular printer configuration or IP/DNS/Proxy info, run a particular program (say a terminal program or perhaps open a web page). It can also run through a series of wireless profiles looking for the one that works....it was very handy for people who worked at lots of clients or went wireless at different locations and needed a lot of different SSIDs to connect. Its sort of what XLan does or any of the OS/2 dialers that ran programs on BBS connections.