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From:  "Stanley Sidlov" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: Still Don't Get It.


I have to say, I don't have this problem in WinXP. This is a TP23, newly minted by IBM.

I am using the Latest Dani Drivers with the PCCard Support, and I had/have the PCCard Director 
installed (4.22). When I was using the IBM drivers, the WiFi could turn off the Card's radio, now, it 
says it did but the card's led keeps blinking. Are there any IBM drivers for the PCCard Director that 
should not be used with the DANI drivers? I am using the suggested settings in the DANI documentation. 

I have a SMC2655W Access Point. The only time that I can connect to the card is when I set WiFi Stat 
to ADHOC which is NOT the way it is setup. I am using a card specific driver which I'm not supposed to 
discuss, but I see that the IBM Prism NIF file is nearly identical except for the manufacturer's id's 
and using "MIB" for the default SSID.

I don't know if on the AP the key is shared or open which is configurable in the NIF, it appears to 
work either way, that is I connect to 'something' -- XP doesn't show any other networks but mine when 
it is connected, at least none that have a visible SSID. 

I know what the network SSID is, and in the Wifi profile it is configured correctly, but when the card 
does connect it never ever shows the SSID, but it shows:

Connected to IBSS
SSID: non-spec @ 2 or sometimes 11 Mbs

Now, this is sort of strange since it won't connect when BSS is the choice, yet, it finds a BSS when 
ADHOC. I have yet to see the Green Bar showing signal strength, and the AP is about a foot away with 
the attennae horizontal. This gives a 100% signal strength in WinXP. 

Also, DHCP is unable to obtain a lease after shutting down Lan0. [Again, Lan0 would be the first NIC 
in the MPTS? and LAN1 would be the second. Right?**]  I assume that the card would not say "Connected" 
if it was unable to communicate with the AP, but again, I expected that it would say the SSID of the 
network in the WiFi profile when it did.  

The WiFi I have came in a zip WiFi0992.zip The WiFI executable is 69709. The one in the IBMPrism 
package is 53869  -- both work the same way and have the same problem described above.




I really don't understand some of the inconsistencies in the .NIF file. 

As an example here is one that is obvious:

[DESIRED_SSID]
Display = "Network Name (SSID)"
Type = String
StrLength = 32
Default = "Merry Christmas !"
Optional = YES
Editable = YES
Help= "You need to provide the Service Set ID of your Wireless LAN. If you want to log on any 
available WLAN, set this parameter to ANY."


The default SSID is 'Merry Christmas !'  and if you change it to 'ANY' it should locate any SSID, but 
if it does, what is the SSID it will display?  The name of the one that it found or 'non-spec' ??


Here's one that I don't find consistent:

[IRQ]
Display = "IRQ Number"
Type = Decimal
Set = 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
Optional = YES
Editable = YES
Help= "You can specify an IRQ number to be used with this module."


SO HOW do you specify the IRQ? Is it on the driver for the PCMCIA card? the NIF? Does this require a 
DEFAULT = statement aka DEFAULT = 10?  I would like to change the IRQ it interferes with a Modem card. 

And this one brings up questions, like what MAC does it show without a default? Or if you use MAC 
Address as part of your security, do you have to put the MAC address in? (I turned this off in the AP 
so that I could try to get this card configured without additional problems.)

[NETADDRESS]
Display = "MAC Address"
Type = HexString
StrLength = 12
;Default =
Range = 000000000000-FFFFFFFFFFFF
Optional = YES
Editable = YES
Help = "You can set the MAC Address for the WLAN module with this parameter. This can be useful if 
your Access Point employs Access Control Lists through MAC Addresses."


Questions, questions. I need some guidance, and answers.  

** MPTS question, you can't have two networks setup for DHCP, but the command line net start commands 
will overide this. What does everyone else use for the information in the Wireless or '2nd' NIC? 
1.1.1.1 as the manual address? Blanks? 

Anyone?



Stan Sidlov

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