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From:  "Oliver Mark" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: 802.11b OS/2 d


On 06.03.2003 13.37.04, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote in OS/2 Wireless Users
List: 802.11b OS/2 d:
>Oliver, is that "hot swap" or "warm swap"? I was under the impression
>(haven't tried it yet) that the system needed to go down to standby in
>order to swap UltraBay drives. We need someone to write a nice WPS
>interface to Dani's drivers like the 'doze versions have: "It is now
>safe to remove your XYZ drive."

Working on hot.

And: Dani would be happy, if someone does it. She's not going to do
GUI-stuff ;-)

>BTW, there was some mention either here or in OS2-ISP (I think it may
>have been Al Stephan) about NICs not waking up again after standby.
>Since then, I inadvertently left my T20 running on battery while my
>Cisco 350 drained it (almost) dry. The system went into suspend (hey,
>power management that works!), but when I awakened it, my network
>connection was down & I had to reboot (I had a pulse on the card, but
>even MPTSTART wouldn't get IP flowing again). My wife's A22m doesn't
>seem to have a problem. I know there was some update to the e100b NIC
>driver related to this problem, and I upgraded mine recently; however,
>this happened with the Cisco card, and both machines are using the same
>(not-so-strictly-legal) build of the Cisco driver. Any thoughts about
>what might not be allowing the card to come online again?

I'd guess for an INT or more likely Memory address problem. I had some
though times to find a similar problem on my T23, but it only works with
one single configuration of Modem, Wireless, IR etc settings to get them
ALL work at the same time.

>
>Oliver Mark wrote:
>
>>On 05.03.2003 11.22.18, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote in OS/2 Wireless Users
>>List: 802.11b OS/2 d:
>>
>>
>>>AFAIK, Charles, the A series is not officially supported for OS/2
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>From the DD matrix, it appears that the A3x models only use the IBM
>>
>>
>>>High Rate wireless and not Cisco. I wonder, then, whether the
>>>as-yet-to-be-released IBM drivers will work for the mini PCI wireless
>>>NIC as well as the PCMCIA version? Perhaps Oliver can comment on this,
>>>at least to the point of whetehr they've been tested. If so, you may be
>>>in good shape in short order. Also, I notice that IBM direct is offering
>>>a free UnltrBay battery with purchases through the 16th or 17th of this
>>>month. Considering the cost of an UltraBay battery ($200+, I've seen),
>>>that sounds like a good deal. (It's also quite amusing to see drivers
>>>for the following "unsupported" OSes listed in the DD matrix: DOS, Win
>>>95 - 95, would you believe it? - , and OS/2.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes, they will.
>>I am running an A31p with ACP2, SNAP, PCMCIA package from SWC,
>>UNIAUD and the "yet-to-be-released" mPCI PRISM driver.
>>Also DANIS506 & DANIATAPI 1.6.2 (and higher) gives you Hot-swap
>>on Ultrabay.    It hasn't rebooted since weeks!!!
>>
>>Oliver.
>>
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