Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #5618

From: "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] T60 won't connect either way
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:28:33 -0400
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

In <list-1443929@2rosenthals.com>, on 10/31/07
   at 08:54 PM, "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> typed:
>There is one question that has not been asked...  [Please don't take it
>as insulting, 'cause I didn't know at first either.]
>   Do you have the switch underneath the left-front of the
>   keyboard turned on?
>The switch is an easy way to kill the WiFi adapter if you are out in
>public and want to protect against sneak attacks, the switch turns the
>radio on/off.

No insuld; I didn't know about the switch. But it was ON.

>Possibly you said earlier and I missed it:  Have you tried using the WiFi
>on Windoze just to be sure:
>a)  The adapter is working.
>b)  The switch is working.

a) yes. b) no.

>Another thing to watch during the boot up:
>    Does the WiFi icon light under the screen flicker
>    while the system is coming up?
>After the boot is complete, the light should be on.  If it is off, that's
>the problem.

I'll check that. Maybe I need to have the WIFI on when I shut XP down.

>Another question about what you see at boot time:
>    Do you see the GenMac messages [in GREEN on the screen]
>    confirm recognition of the adapters. - Two sets, one for
>    each adapter.

Yes.
>If the messages are red and/or the version of the drivers is not:
>    "Release Version 2.1 built Oct 23 2007 09:21:13"
>then you do not have the 'latest' level.

Yes, it's the 20071023 update.
 
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