From: "Will Honea" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 422321 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:46:41 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXV3F-000LkT-CW for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:46:37 -0400 Received: from smtp104.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.200.252]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with smtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXV3A-0007II-Pq for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:46:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 91015 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2006 03:46:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO basement) (whonea@whonea.net@70.59.203.124 with login) by smtp104.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2006 03:46:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:46:12 -0600 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Reply-To: "Will Honea" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT(?): ThinkVantage? Access Connections MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.25a; build=1965 X-Mailer-Platform: OS/2; architecture=x86; version=20.45 X-Mailer-Java-VM: IBM Corporation; version=J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build co131-20030618 (JIT enabled: jitc); compiler=jitc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) Message-ID: ** Reply to message from "Carl Gehr" on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:37:51 -0400 (EDT) > This may be somewhat OT, but I just happened upon this on the > IBM/Lenovo site: > "ThinkVantage? Access Connections" > >http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvantagetech/accessconnections.html > > "Avoid support costs by allowing users to seamlessly switch between > wired and wireless environments, managing security settings, printers, > home page and other location-specific settings automatically." > > It also says: > "Access Connections works with Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 and is > conveniently installed on all new ThinkPad© notebooks." > > 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. That got installed when I ran all the updates off the Lenovo site on the R30 the wife is using. No more hassles with vendor specific control panels and such - so simple that even the wife was able to use it after I showed her where it was. That saya a lot if a violinist and music teacher who, shall we say, somewhat predates computers can use it! -- Will Honea