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From: "Mark Henigan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] 2915ABG (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] TP30 plus Intel 2200BG under eCS 2.0RC1)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:10:21 +0000
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
On 06/27/07 09:40 pm, Mark Henigan thus wrote :

<snip>

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.

************************
Intel 2915ABG mini-PCI cards

8086_4223

*******************************************

Bus 2 (PCI), Device Number 2, Device Function 0
Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
Device 4223h PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter
Command 0116h (Memory Access, BusMaster, MemWrite+Invalidate, System Errors)
Status 0290h (Has Capabilities List, Supports Back-To-Back Trans.,
  Medium Timing)
Revision 05h, Header Type 00h, Bus Latency Timer 40h
Minimum Bus Grant 03h, Maximum Bus Latency 18h
Self test 00h (Self test not supported)
Cache line size 32 Bytes (8 DWords)
PCI Class Network, type Other
Subsystem ID 1354103Ch Unknown
Subsystem Vendor 103Ch Hewlett-Packard Company
Address 0 is a Memory Address (0-4GiB) : D0200000h..D0200FFFh
System IRQ 11, INT# A
New Capabilities List Present:
   Power Management Capability, Version 1.1
     Does not support low power State D1 or D2
     Supports PME# signalling from mode(s) D0, D3hot, D3cold
     PME# signalling is currently disabled
     3.3v AUX Current required : 0 mA (Self powered)
     Current Power State : D0 (Device operational, no power saving)
      1900 mW D0 power consume
      1900 mW D0 power dissipate
      1900 mW D1 power consume
      1900 mW D1 power dissipate
      1900 mW D2 power consume
      1900 mW D2 power dissipate
       100 mW D3 power consume
       100 mW D3 power dissipate
         0 mW common logic power consume

************************

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:

HKR_CardType,0x00000002
HKR_ConnectionPriority,2
HKR_Diversity11a,0
HKR_Diversity11b,2
HKR_Diversity11g,2
HKR_ExtChannelBand24Enabled,0x0000000
HKR_IBSSTxPower,100
HKR_NdisEnvironment,0x00000000
HKR_NetType,"WLAN"
HKR_ModulationType,2
HKR_PrefBand,0x00000002
HKR_Provider,"Intel"
HKR_RadioEnable,0x00000001
HKR_RoamAggressiveness,2
HKR_StationName,""
HKR_FixedLongPreamble,0x00000000
HKR_DesiredPSKey1,"2DEC3153C48D73C2FC8F65F19DF775B99DA02F03D545B7CF9BD2EFCE4F0744B1FB65E4112FD9D394DDD219CE5D0762B08764CE1193397D9B46FDEFDE546489ED801DF2"
HKR_DesiredPSKey2,"132137C8D8D120037D585B16EC5EC284376E06AA333A3F82F9FC2196049D79D290B435EDD63699118F0C0F12DA5E1694D46E9E7A679AA8222BFCD4C27E921EF5F21D41"
HKR_DesiredPSKey3,"1D4C4FF31D8DDD9641806FD6C8B495EDC736BF11670CD512685E2B94EA6EE07AC79A3E2287FC55C221923FF5B2F739B9F4A044033545D2CFC6D2F3CEB407A1B1081D93"
HKR_DesiredPSKey4,"31E4D1848F86D6B97FBD4807A245B2CF34D2ADCED10755B14D65351147D9B494C1D21FCE240789B054642F11A539B79BCEFD61DE296405ED80212201FC0281C18D1D1E"
HKR_DesiredDefaultKeyId,0x00000000
HKR_DesiredPortType,0x00000001
HKR_DesiredAuthenticationMode,0x00000000
HKR_DesiredCipher,0x00000001
HKR_BTCoexistence,0x00000007
HKR_FeatureSet,0x00900001
HKR_RecommendedChannel24,11
HKR_PowerIndex,5
HKR_DesiredSsid,QCSSIDForPrfSwitch
HKR_BacktoBackScanningCount,0x00000004
HKR_MainAuxControl,0x00000001
HKR_AdapterModel,"Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection"
HKR_DriverDesc,"Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection"
HKR_Band5GHzSupport,0x00000001
HKR_BandType,0x00000002
HKR_FragmentationThreshold,0x00000900
HKR_ReadGainDB,0x00000001
HKR_RfKillSKU,0x00000002
HKR_CalibrationEnable,0x00000001
HKR_LedEnable,0x00000001
HKR_RecommendedAtimWindow,0x00000000
HKR_RecommendedBeaconInterval,0x00000064
HKR_RTSThreshold,0x00000640
HKR_WoWLanEnable,0x00000000
HKR_CtsToItself,0x00000001
HKR_RsnEnable,0x00000001
HKR_RecommendedChannel52,36
HKR_RecommendedBand,0
HKR_Characteristics,0x00000084
HKR_BusType,5
HKR_ComponentId,"pci\\ven_8086&dev_4224&subsys_10108086"
HKR_ProviderName,"Intel"
HKR_DriverDate,"2-11-2005"
HKR_DriverVersion,"9.0.1.21"
HKR_FwVersion,"ABG:9.0.1.21"
HKR_UcodeVersion,"0000D159"
HKR_HardwareVersion,"1.0.15"
HKR_RadioEnableHW,0x00000001
HKR_ChannelMaskBand24B,0x000087ff
HKR_ChannelMaskBand24G,0x000087ff
HKR_ChannelMaskBand52,0x8f8000aa
HKR_ChannelMaskBand52J,0x00000000
HKR_MandatoryBssid,""
HKR_DesiredKeyLength,0x00000000
HKR_1xEnable,0x00000000
HKR_RogueEnable,0x00000000
HKR_DontEncryptEAP,0x00000000
HKR_CMinCMax,0x00000000
HKR_CcxTPC,0x00000000
HKR_CcxApAssistedRoaming,0x00000000
HKR_CcxQoSParamaterSetIE,0x00000000
HKR_CcxVersion,0x00000000
HKR_CcxCCKM,0x00000000
HKR_CcxRadioMeasurements,0x00000000
HKR_MixedCellsEnabled,0x00000000

HKR_AdapterHWRadioState,0x00000001
HKR_AdapterState,0x00000001
HKR_1xAlgorithm,0x00000000
HKR_1xProtocol,0x00000000
HKR_PowerIndex,0x00000005

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!

Best Regards,

- Mark

Mark Henigan
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