Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

On 06/27/07 09:40 pm, Mark Henigan thus wrote :

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Hello:

I had significant problems with the miniPCI adapter
installation and eventually had to remove the card
in order to be able to connect to the Internet.

My favorite bus reader found

"Device 4223h PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter."

However, my attempts to install it with GenMAC were
repeatedly frustrated.  For one thing, the installer
appeared to be choosing the wrong *.nif and related
files to install to support it.  My attempts to find
the correct file(s) and install manually led to the
refusal to boot.  Did I need to be using Stack32?
Part of the PCI bus readout included:

"Cache line size 32 Bytes (8 DWords)"

Sorry to hear of your troubles, Mark. There are two (known) PCI ID's for the 2915: 4223 and 4224. In your GenMAC driver directory,  make sure you have the subdirectory:

11-15-06 10:27p         <DIR>      0 ----  WRAPPER_8086_4223

And in there, something similar to the following:

3-05-06 10:31a         2,950      0 ----  W29N51.INF
7-19-05  8:14p     3,289,088    208 ----  W29N51.SYS

I am using the following drivers for the 4224:

2-08-07  1:30p       119,850      0 a---  w29n51.inf
5-13-07  8:05p     2,209,408      0 a---  w29n51.sys

Hello Lewis:

I have the 4223.

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C:\MPTN\genmac\driver\WRAPPER_8086_4223\W29N51.INF

2007/06/14  19:58:00  2950      WRAPPER_8086_4223\W29N51.INF
2006/03/05  10:31:15  2950      WRAPPER_8086_4224\W29N51.INF
2005/07/19  20:14:01  3289088   WRAPPER_8086_4224\W29N51.SYS
2005/07/19  20:14:01  3289088   WRAPPER_8086_4223\W29N51.SYS

Possibly the problem lies with the file
WRAPPER_8086_4223\W29N51.INF:

I believe it is identical to the file for the
4224 as is possibly the driver file.  It looks
like the developer was prototyping and left some
files incompletely configured.

Which build of GenMAC are you using?

GenMAC v2.00 16112006

 From PROTOCOL.INI (should be similar for the 4223 ID - note the change necessary to the section and DEVICE):

[W8086X4224_nif]

  DriverName = WRND32$
  VENDOR = 0x8086
  DEVICE = 0x4224
  NDIS_SYS = "W29N51.SYS"
  NDIS_INF = "W29N51.INF"
  SSID = "ANY"
  DEBUGLEVEL = "NONE"
  OPTIONS = "STACK32"

Relevant sections of PROTOCOL.INI were:

[IBMLXCFG]

   netbeui_nif = netbeui.nif
   tcpbeui_nif = tcpbeui.nif
   tcpip_nif = tcpip.nif
   fxwrap_nif = fxwrap.nif
   E100BEO2_nif = E100BEO2.NIF
   W8086X4223_nif = W8086X4223.nif
   CISCOPCM_nif = ciscopcm.nif


[tcpip_nif]

   DriverName = TCPIP$
   Bindings = E100BEO2_nif,W8086X4223_nif,CISCOPCM_nif


[W8086X4223_nif]

   DriverName = WRND32$
   VENDOR = 0x8086
   DEVICE = 0x4223
   NDIS_SYS = "W29N51.SYS"
   NDIS_INF = "W29N51.INF"
   SSID = "WLAN"
   DEBUGLEVEL = "NO"
   OPTIONS = "NO"

And, I used protochk.cmd to straighten out ibmlan.ini.

[C:\ecs\bin]protochk.cmd
Updating C:\IBMLAN\ibmlan.ini
Saving C:\IBMLAN\ibmlan.ini as C:\IBMLAN\IBMLAN.184

STACK32 I've found to be important. In particular, when I first started experimenting, I could not load UNIAUD and GenMAC (for this card, at least) without it (I got the beep symptom Ed described and a hang  at boot).

I'm not familiar with that parameter.

Also for troubleshooting, try REMMING your USB statements (ISTR some issues tweaking those up at first).

I'll give it a try next time I have an
opportunity to install.

I hope I'm not forgetting anything.

...  Again, sorry to hear of your troubles, and if it looks like a flakey card, I'll send you another to swap and test out.

I have two cards.  I may try the other one next
time I try to install.

Thanks for your help!