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.
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