From: "Miles" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:11:28 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Miles" <nihon_go@tokyo7.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Card Suggestions

Good Point.

I'm looking for a card for my desktop PCs running MCP.  I have no wireless equipment 
right now so I can buy whatever I need.  I do have a CISCO 340 PCMCIA card for my 
laptop that works great under OS/2.  I think I would be looking for a PCI card.

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:38:08 -0400, madodel wrote:

>Miles wrote:
>> I am trying to figure out what wireless network card to buy for my OS/2 machines 
but 
>> it's not really clear which ones are going to work well.  Is there a short list 
of 
>> good cards for OS/2?  I'm also worried about getting drivers for these cards.  
>> 
>> I'm assuming that I can't go out and buy a new card and will need to get 
something 
>> off of ebay.  Maybe I'm wrong about that though.
>
>
>What kind of system?  You have to be specific as to hardware(desktop, 
>laptop, laptop with builtin wireless)  and whether you are running eCS-MCP 
>or older on it since at least two of the drivers are only available with an 
>eCS license or SWC subscription.  Also what kind of wireless connection do 
>yourequire?  The older 802.11b is 1mbps but you can still obtain PCMCIA 
>cards on eBay that will work.  For now the only solutions for the newer 
>802.11g are either built-in mini-PCI cards for laptops or a wireless 
>bridge. See below.
>
>I recently posted the following to the eCS-Technical mailing list:
>
>"If its a laptop with built-in wireless you may be in luck as the recent
>release of a GenMac driver (available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/genmac
>though that is the original 1.0 version.  A 1.7 version is supposed to be
>released soon that works better for a number of people).  You might also
>want to get the Wireless LAN Monitor which works with GenMac or some of the
>older wireless drivers for ease of setup and configuration -
>ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan   This works as either standalone or as an
>Xcenter/eCenter widget.
>
>If its a laptop without built-in wireless but PCMCIA support you can find a
>limited number of 802.11b cards that have drivers (Ones I am aware of that
>can still be found if you look hard enough are the IBM High Rate PCMCIA
>(Requires either a Software Choice subscription or eCS license), The Cisco
>340 or 350 card and the Lucent cards (these last two never left beta
>testing status but can be obtained if you ask).  802.11b cards will work
>with 802.11g networks just at the slower 11mbps speed and depending on the
>router may slow all the traffic through that router to the slower speed.
>
>If you mean a desktop that would require a PCI wireless card, there is at
>least one that worked with one of the drivers but I don't recall what brand
>and it was also 802.11b.  I do know we gave one away at Warpstock a couple
>years ago.
>
>Another solution is a wireless bridge. These are often sold as video game
>wireless adapters but  they just plug into an existing ethernet port and
>can then establish a connection with a wireless network.   These are OS
>agnostic and can be configured using a web browser.  For an example of one
>see Daniela Engert's article in VOICE -
>http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0305H/vnewsf4.htm "
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>-- 
>
>  From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel
>
>  Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th,
>http://www.warpstock.org
>  Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net
>
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