How about someone writing up an article for VOICE or OS/2eZine on how this
is done successfully?
Mark
In <200412101711.iBAHBFi24319@ruby.fltg.net>, on 12/10/04 at 11:52 AM,
"Julian Thomas" <jt@jt-mj.net> said:
>In <0I8I00M9XMP0JB@mxout4.netvision.net.il>, on 12/10/04
> at 06:48 PM, Stan Goodman <sgood@hashkedim.com> typed:
>>I am in the early throes of setting up my Thinkpad for wireless service
>>with a Cisco 352. I envision needing also to continue to make wired
>>connections. I'd therefore like to see these scripts, which have been
>>mentioned previously here. I'd look for them in the archives of this
>>group, but the archives are not searchable, and searching the
>>unsearchable is a daunting idea.
>Better yet, I'll paste them in here. wireless.cmd and wired.cmd do the
>obvious things. wired is lan0; cisco is lan1.
>------- wireless.cmd ----------
>/* turn on the radio
> * This command activates the 802.11b interface
> *
> * The wireless NIC should be inserted in the PC Card slot
> */
>say "Activating the wireless network card"
>'ifconfig lan0 down'
>'ifconfig lan0 delete'
>'ifconfig lan1 down'
>'ifconfig lan1 delete'
>'dhcpmon -l' /* release lease */
>'dhcpmon -t' /* terminate dhcp */
>'route -fh'
>'arp -f'
>'dhcpstrt -i lan1 -d 10'
>'start dhcpmon'
>say "Wireless networking enabled"
>return
>---------------------------
>------wired.cmd ---------
>/* turn off the radio
>* This command deactivates the 802.11b interface
>*/
>say "Deactivating the wireless network card"
>'killem dhcpmon.exe'
>'ifconfig lan1 down'
>'ifconfig lan1 delete'
>'dhcpmon -l' /* release lease */
>'dhcpmon -t' /* terminate dhcp */
>'route -fh'
>'arp -f'
>'dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 10'
>say "Wired Lan networking enabled"
> ----------------
>config.sys has both drivers, and otherwise the usual stuff for lan0 which
>is the default.
>I don't know how important this is; I'd seen some discussion that it
>might work better to uninstall (in mptn setup, not physically :-) the
>wired interface, and then install wireless (you can select it as lan1
>there, I think), getting it working, and finally reinstalling the wired
>on top of the wireless. It's worth keeping note of:
>ibmcom\protocol,ine - which should have sections for both adapters.
>Here's mine: [PROT_MAN]
> DriverName = CWL350$
> DESIRED_SSID = "mywap"
> STA_MODE = "INFRASTRUCTURE"
> PREAMBLE = "BOTH"
> PSP_MODE = "CAM"
> AUTH_TYPE = "OPEN_SYSTEM"
> WEP = "DISABLED"
> SUPPLY_VOLTAGE = "5.0V"
> DEBUG_LEVEL = 0xFFDF
>-------------
>mptn\bin\setup.cmd - for both the wired only and wireless only configs.
>These are the basis for the scripts that I'm using (adapted from someone
>else - Neil?).
>I've set up for dhcp on both lans. If you want to use fixed ip address
>for either or both, it shouldn't be too hard to adapt the scripts.
>Good luck. If you need specific help, don't hesitate to ask me either on
>the list or by private email - bt this may be of interest to others.
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