From: "Ed Durrant" Received: from mxout1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.165] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 492887 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:35:52 -0500 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Gf0Jb-0008ad-7U for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:35:49 -0500 Received: from omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.82.153]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Gf0Ja-000Gao-UN for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:34:31 -0500 Received: from [192.168.30.2] (really [124.189.184.88]) by omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20061031203423.TTIZ8871.omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com@[192.168.30.2]> for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:34:23 +0000 Message-ID: <4547B345.1050109@bigpond.net.au> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:34:13 +1100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0a1 (OS/2/20060803) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Getting started with GenMac References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com from [124.189.184.88] using ID edurrant@bigpond.net.au at Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:34:23 +0000 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Andy Willis wrote: > Ed Durrant wrote: >> Stanley Sidlov wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:01:08 -0500, madodel wrote: >>> >>>> There are at least three of us with T4x's and Intel 2200bg cards >>>> that experienced the problem. Disabling the Speedstep in the BIOS >>>> was the only thing that allowed the 2200 to be seen by xwlan. >>>> Others had it working but only on AC, and not on battery. It makes >>>> no sense since it worked for me for several months without changing >>>> anything and always worked fine with an Intel 2100b card, but this >>>> is what we discovered to fix the problem. >>> >>> just a comment. is it possible that the problem is a result of the >>> ACPI updates? Especially if it worked for a while.... >>> (I have no way to test this hypothesis as I have a pcmcia card and no >>> access to the Mensys Beta - though I think I should, but haven't been >>> enabled by mensys) >>> >>> >>> >> Thanks for the input Stan - I wondered the same and tried having ACPI >> on and OFF on my T30 when I installed there under eCS 2.0B2M2 - it >> didn't make any difference - the key point was the BIOS settings, in >> my case. >> >> Just an additional comment - the T42 ran eCS 1.2R and the T30 eCS >> 2.0B2M2 so I think they were using different versions of ACPI. >> >> Cheers/2 >> >> Ed. > Hmm, I have tried each successive ACPI update and Genmac doesn't work > for me with ACPI enabled at all so far. > Andy > On reflection, I believe I had issues with ACPI on eCS 1.2R on the T42 and it only became usable (on my systems) when I installed eCS 2.0 beta 2 Milestone 2 ot the T30. So I guess we can (hopefully) await good things in this area once eCS 2.0 is officially released. Cheers/2 Ed.