[OS2Wireless] Wlan, wired and wireless connections
Date:
Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:54:43 -0800
To:
os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
** Reply to message from "Jim Showalter jshowalt@mindspring.com" on Sun, 13 Nov
2005 15:18:15 -0800
> I have both a wired nic and wireless nic in my notebook. For the longest
> time I had used only the wired nic as I couldn't determine a driver for
> the wireless nic. Now that I have a driver for the wireless nic
> (IBMPRISM) and can get it connected, I'd like to use Wlan/xWlan to
> select which nic I use after booting up.
>
> I installed Wlan 2.0, but have the IP Disabled problem, so I then
> installed the 1.20 version. Now I need to know what needs to be set
> where so that I don't get error messages during boot if my wired nic is
> uncabled and how to activate the wireless nic and be able to switch
> between them.
>
> When tcpcfg2 has "not enabled" and "DHCP" set for the wired lan and the
> nic is uncabled, the command run during boot for dhcpstrt fails.
I basically had the same setup on my T41 but was using a PC card for the
wireless NIC (with the PRISM driver) since I did not have drivers for the
wireless NIC in the laptop. The only thing I did was to add a "-d 0" parameter
to the DHCP client in \mptn\bin\setup.cmd so it looked like "dhcpstrt -i lan0
-d 0". This will stop an error message from the DHCP client during boot which
you must hit enter to get boot to finish. If I was at home plugging in the
cable on the wired NIC got me connected. On the road I would start XWLAN 1.2
manually (I don't use it as a widget) after boot and it would connect and after
a short delay DHCP would get an address and the system was connected. Now that
I have the GENMAC driver I am doing the same thing only using XWLAN 2.0 .
After reading some other posts I am now going to test the public hot spot to
see if I can connect that way with XWLAN 2.0. So far I have only connected to
my home network (WEP) and not one of my neighbors unsecured networks.
--
Robert Blair
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