From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 191937 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:48:28 -0400 Message-ID: <44A05629.7000301@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:48:25 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060531 MultiZilla/1.8.2.0i SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: xwlan 2.14 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/25/06 01:27 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:10:37 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> For reference (abstracted): >> >> '@ ifconfig lan1 down' >> '@ ifconfig lan1 delete' >> '@ dhcpmon -t' >> '@ route -fh' >> '@ arp -f' >> '@ dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 0' >> > > Just FWIW, I am using an old driver [That works!] for my PRISM WiFi > adapter in an A30p TPad. And, I am using one of the last of the old > WiFiState monitors [because it works]. > > I am using exactly the same sequence of commands that Lewis posted > above to switch between WiFi and hardwired connections. [I think I may > have gotten this sequence from Lewis when I first got my Wireless AP > about three years ago. Thank you!] > > I can't take the credit; I stole it from Neil! ;-) > To reverse the connection, the opposite command has LAN0 instead of > LAN1 and LAN1 in place of LAN0. I simply manually turn the radio > on/off depending on which way I am switching. > > Yes, I have a NICOFF.CMD, as well. > I've been considering moving to the newer driver/monitor for quite a > while, but have not had time to deal with any possible problems. All > the reported problems with these other drivers/monitor levels have me a > little reluctant to change. I usually try to keep up with the latest > 'stuff' but in this case, maybe... > If it ain't broke, don't fix it... > is not such a bad idea. > > True enough. In my caase, however, new ThinkPad; new drivers. Many issues seem to have been resolved with some of the very latest builds of GenMAC (and no, everyone, I don't have a newer build of GenMAC than 1.7! :-) ) and XWLAN (and XWLAN is - IMO - a must-have utility for anyone who spends time switching from one wireless network to another or between different wireless nets and wired). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------