On Thu, 19 May 2005 09:43:35 +0200 (CEST), Peter Verweij wrote:

 

Hi,

I use two nics on my T40 and it works great. Just a few things to remember.
Each nic should be on its own networking address.
I have the wireless on 192.168.1.18 and the wired on 192.168.3.19
(important is not to have both on 192.168.1.x then the requester doesn't
work).
Next in ibmlan.ini both network adapters should be bound, search for net1
and net2. But if you don't get an error during boot from network200a it
should be oke.
Next if change your wirelesscard ip-address it is sometime needed to stop
the requester with:
net stop req /y
After a minute or so you can start up the requester again with
net start req
and then it should start. If you are to fast the requester startup quits
with an error message.
At the moment on a windows pc so I can't give you the exact errormessage.
   

Thanks for the replies so far but I think some of you are a bit confused as to
what I am trying to achieve. I am *not* trying to get both NICs to work at once
but boot and use either a cable connection to my LAN if I am in my office or a
WIFI connection if I am elsewhere such as the garden. So lets restate the
problem:
 

I can use my T21 either on cable or on wireless, or both at once provided they
are on two different subnets. However I cannot get the requester to start when
the box is booted and wifi activated.

In this scenario after boot neither NIC has an IP - both use DHCP. WIFI is not
active and there is no cable plugged in so the cable side is never going to do
anything. I start WIFI and it gets an IP. I can ping/telnet/ftp/whatever. I
then try a network login to get some mounted drives. The requester starts but
times out after several minutes with no helpful errors or log messages that I
can find.

The LAN NIC is bound to TCP/IP, NETBIOS and NETBIOS over TCP, the WIFI
initially was only bound to TCP/IP. I think I have both NETBIOS as I needed to
talk to old and new versions of winbloze without messing too much with the win
boxes.

In IBMLAN.INI there are NET1 & NET2, the first to TCPBEUI$,0 and the second  to
NETBEUI$,1 - which I believe refer to adaptors 0 & 1 - which ties up with
protocol.ini
- Note that 0 & 1 are both the LAN NIC - because of the two NETBIOS protocols.

I tried adding the two NETBIOS settings to the WIFI adapter and guessed that
that might create NET3 & 4 - So I added them to IBMLAN.INI  and to the
wkservices & srvnets. Then it would not start the requester even when on cable.

If I start on cable, start the requester and get my drives mounted then
shutdown the cable and start wifi the mounted drives still work.

Another question - If the mounted drives only appear when I log into the LAN
why don't they disappear when I logout?