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.
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)
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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