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From: Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] T43 w/Broadcom Gb NIC + eCS 1.2 MR + Cisco 350 = no XWLAN
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:54:43 -0500
To: OS/2 Wireless Users <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Greetings, friends, and apologies for my scarcity around here in recent weeks. It seems that one really never can predict one's own schedule, and I have been going nonstop for days. I finally decided to cancel some appointments the other day due to some tightness in my chest (life really is too short, after all). I'm feeling much better now.

Anyway, to my subject:

As several of you may know, I'm in the process of moving into my new ThinkPad T43 model 2687-DDU. This model has an integrated Broadcom 10/100/1000 NIC (BTW, Broadcom has updated the driver to resolve a conflict with HPFS386 - more on this in a moment - if you have a Broadcom NIC which uses the B57 driver, you might want to download the new build - 8.28, dated 12/2005 - from http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php?cookiecheck=1) and an Intel 2915 a/b/g Wi-Fi card. GenMAC does not presently support this chipset (though I have uploaded the necessary files to my ftp server and posted a note on the GenMAC support list to that effect, so hopefully, it will be added in the near future).

I was experiencing some random traps (see below) with HPFS386 in use alongside even the latest Broadcom driver. In addition, I was seeing the situation exacerbated when the Cisco 350 driver was also loaded. I have switched over (temporarily, I hope) to 16-bit HPFS, and the system seems to be more stable.

XWLAN (latest version: 2.12) will install, but shows the Cisco interface as disabled (I have also tried the previous build, which is working fine with my ThinkPad T30, with the same result). In additon, when the widget is installed, it will not survive a reboot. By this, I mean that upon restarting and loading eCenter, I get a number of exception beeps, followed by a message that the dll could not be loaded and asking me if I want to disable the XWLAN widget. No matter how I respond to this prompt, the system is deadlocked, and even the CAD handler won't help beyond a reboot.

Interesting stuff from POPUPLOG.OS2:

(Re: Broadcom NIC driver and HPFS386)

02-01-2006  22:09:45  SYS3175  PID 0082  TID 0001  Slot 00ac
C:\IBMCOM\MPTS.EXE
c0000005
1dcc1913
P1=00000001  P2=1dcc1913  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX EAX=1cbffffe  EBX=1cbc99a0  ECX=00000000  EDX=1dcc1913
ESI=00000000  EDI=1cbf41a4 DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1dcc1913  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:000dea68  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=00000000  FLG=00012246

(Several of these; sometimes almost at reboot, other times when the system runs for a short while.)

From EWPTRAP.LOG:

eComStation trap message -- Date: 2006-01-31, Time: 19:37:51
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An internal error occurred in eComStation (XFLDR.DLL).
Please send a bug report to xworkplace-user@netlabs.org
so that this error may be fixed for future eComStation versions.
Please supply this file (?:\ewptrap.log) with your e-mail
and describe as exactly as possible the conditions under which
the error occurred.

Running XFLDR.DLL version: 1.0.4 built Nov  3 2005
Running OS/2 version: 20.45.0 (WSeB kernel)

excHandlerLoud:
   Exception type: C0000005
   Address:        1DC0B09E
   Params:         00000001  FBFBFBFB XCPT_ACCESS_VIOLATION: XCPT_READ_ACCESS -- Invalid read access from 0x0053:FBFBFBFB.
Explanation: An attempt was made to access a memory object which does
            not belong to the current process. Most probable causes
            for this are that an invalid pointer was used, there was
            confusion with administering memory or error conditions
            were not properly checked for.

Process information:
   Process ID:      0x2F
   Process module:  0xA55 (C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE)
   Trapping module: 0x169C (C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.DLL)
   Object: 0

Trapping thread information:
   Thread ID:       0xA (10)
   Thread slot ID:  0x8A (138)
   Priority:        0x200
Thread identification:
   TID 0xA (10)  (eCenter)
The following threads could be identified:
   PMSHELL Workplace thread ID: 0x1
   NotifySentinel: ID 0xD (13)
   Party: ID 0xE (14)
   Worker: ID 0xF (15)
   Bush: ID 0x10 (16)
   Wimp: ID 0x11 (17)
   File: ID 0x12 (18)
   RefreshFindFolder: ID 0x13 (19)
   RefreshNotificationPump: ID 0x14 (20)
   eCenter: ID 0xA (10)
   PulseWidgetCollect: ID 0x1D (29)

Global lock semaphore is currently not owned.

Registers:
   DS  = 00000053  invalid
   ES  = 00000053  invalid
   FS  = 0000150B  invalid
   GS  = 00000000  invalid
   EAX = FBFBFBFB  invalid
   EBX = 01188CC0  valid, flags: read write committed
   ECX = 00000000  invalid
   EDX = FFFFFFFF  invalid
   ESI = 1CBF39C4  valid, flags: read write committed shared
   EDI = 1CBF2AE0  valid, flags: read write committed shared
Instruction pointer (where exception occurred):
   CS:EIP = 005B:1DC0B09E  valid, flags: read execute committed shared
   EFLAGS = 00012282
Stack:
   Base:         02330000
   Limit:        02377000
   SS:ESP = 0053:02375E74  valid, flags: read write committed
   EBP    =      02375E80  valid, flags: read write committed

Stack frames:
             Address   Module   seg:ofs
   CS:EIP  : 1DC0B09E  XWLAN    01:0002B09E
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02375E80: 1DC0B15F  XWLAN    01:0002B15F
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02375E94: 1DC0C632  XWLAN    01:0002C632
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02375EB0: 1DC0AA1E  XWLAN    01:0002AA1E
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   0237674C: 1DBE8EE0  XWLAN    01:00008EE0
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02376768: 1DBE499F  XWLAN    01:0000499F
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   0237678C: 1DBE5AE7  XWLAN    01:00005AE7
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02376AE4: 1DBE024A  XWLAN    01:0000024A
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\ECS\SYSTEM\EWPS\PLUGINS\XCENTER\XWLAN.SYM

   02376B54: 1E931E0A  PMMERGE  04:00101E0A
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.SYM

   02376C90: 1E94EAF9  PMMERGE  04:0011EAF9
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.SYM

   02376CE4: 1EA4828E  XFLDR    03:0006828E
                                between ctrpCreateWidgetWindow + 0x20E
                                    and ctrpLoadWidgetPopupMenu - 0x1BE

   02376DC8: 1EA48007  XFLDR    03:00068007
                                between ctrpQueryWidgetIndexFromHWND + 0x1A37
                                    and ctrpCreateWidgetWindow - 0x79

   02376E08: 1EA4B4F8  XFLDR    03:0006B4F8
                                between ctrpCreateXCenterView + 0x668
                                    and ctrpStuffSettings - 0x648

   02376FA8: 1EA7A371  XFLDR    03:0009A371
                                between thrCreate + 0x16F
                                    and txvRegisterTextView - 0x7DF

   02376FD4: 1EAA1E38  XFLDR    03:000C1E38
                                between _CrtGetLocalData + 0x310
                                    and _beginthread - 0x14

   02376FF4: 1C04C188  DOSCALL1 04:0000C188
                                Cannot find symbol file C:\OS2\DLL\DOSCALL1.SYM


   pulStackWord == 0


I really need to turn on debugging in XWLAN, but I'd surely like to get the system stable. I can indeed manually connect wirelessly, so the Cisco driver appears to be working.

One last thing: I posted a note on the notebook/2 mailing list concerning the extraordinarily long time it takes for NETBIND to run on this machine. It is excruciating (over a minute, at my last timing).

Any thoughts on the above?

--
Lewis
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