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From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:33:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Lazy DHCP response over Wi-Fi: solved, I
 think

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:34:30 -0500
  "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 
wrote:
> In <list-1447252@2rosenthals.com>, on 11/03/07 
>   at 10:09 PM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" 
><os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
> typed: >For those of you experiencing difficulty getting 
>DHCP
> configuration over  >the Wi-Fi link (particularly using 
>XWLAN), I think I
> may have found my  >trouble.
> 
>>In my dhcpcd.cfg, I had the following logging options 
>>enabled:
> 
> I was having dhcp problems with the wired lan on the 
>T60. Finally did your
> tinkering with dhcpcd.cfg and got it to mostly work.
> 
Glad I could help! ;-)

> Previously, it wasn't working after bootup (with dynamic 
>IP specified).
> 
> I could get it to work using my fixedip.cmd.
> 
> After the tinkering with the cfg file, it still doesn't 
>work after bootup
> (see below) but if I run my wired.cmd file, it works 
>perfectly.
> 
I'm thinking that the issue may be a timing thing between 
the IP stack (delayed, perhaps, due to the logging 
configuration) and the GenMAC driver. This might explain 
why I didn't see the problem with the native Broadcom 
driver.

<snip>

> "F:\GENMAC\DRIVER\WRAPPER_8086_4227\NETW3X32.SYS" not 
>found! Sun Nov  4
> 17:31:24 2007 [WRND322$]WrapperPath 
>"\IBMCOM\MACS\NETW3X32.SYS"  Sun Nov 
> 4 17:31:24 2007 [WRND322$] File "\T_NDIS\NETW3X32.SYS" 
>not found! Sun Nov 
> 4 17:31:24 2007 [WRND322$]Load File Error 
>"\T_NDIS\NETW3X32.SYS"
> 
> Now the NETW3X32.SYS file is there, but in the 
>directory:
> 
>F:\GENMAC\WRAPPER_8086_4227\ 
> 
Oops!

> On a hunch, I copied that directory under the DRIVERS 
>directory and
> rebooted.
> 
Yep, that's where it belongs...

> SUCCESS!  XWLAN now lights up and I'm connected.
> 
> Moral of the story - check the GENMAC\DRIVERS\wrnd32.log 
>file!
> 
Well done and well said!

--
Lewis
---------------------------------
Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLE, CLP
Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC
Accountants / Network Consultants
New York   /   Northern Virginia
http://www.2rosenthals.com
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