Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #5910

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Sender:	"OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject:	[OS2Wireless] Broadcom B57 drivers (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] TP Hibernation)
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:22:28 -0400
To:	"OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 06/24/07 07:35 pm, Steven Levine thus wrote : In <list-1233073@2rosenthals.com>, on 06/24/07 at 02:55 PM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> said: Hi, Apparently, Broadcom considers that *all* OS/2 systems utilizing their hardware are server-class machines. ;-) They are not alone. IIRC, HP has done this for years. True enough! Also - I note that the B57.OS2 is a 16-bit driver (genm32w.os2 is 32-bit). The Intel E100B and E1000 drivers include the header string, "This program requires Microsoft Windows." Just some interesting trivia... This is typical. I've got lots of drivers that say this. What you are seeing is the DOS stub at the beginning of the NE format executable. What the stub contains is determined by the toolchain used to build the executable. Most of them allow you to supply your own stub. :-) It's funny sometimes, the stuff you can find when poking around at files. As part of Rachel's computer curriculum, I use Peter Norton's "inside the IBM PC," and he has exercises for examining the human-readable portions of executables. We have fun searching for things and exploring (her homeschool curriculum from The Calvert School, outside of Baltimore, MD, began with Windows...that's not exactly the context in which I want to frame her entire computer learning experience - though we will cover Windows, in time - so i scrapped it and built my own, starting with DOS, and a pre-history lesson involving CP/M and some minis). I had occasion to try the 10.03 Broadcom driver, and now recall why I reverted to the 8.28 I'm now using. It (or GenMAC) takes forever to initialize, and seems to make GenMAC behave poorly (not find the hardware, etc.). I didn't REM GenMAC out of CONFIG.SYS, so I can't tell whether the long delay at the B57 load line is indeed B57 hanging up or GenMAC *not* displaying its info for some time. Can anyone confirm this? BTW, I am currently *not* using ACPI on this T43. Cheers, from Panera Bread in Manassas, VA, sending and receiving (SMTP & POP3) via TLS...let 'em sniff my packets!! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <os2-wireless_users-off@2rosenthals.com> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <os2-wireless_users-digest@2rosenthals.com> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <os2-wireless_users-index@2rosenthals.com> Send administrative queries to <os2-wireless_users-request@2rosenthals.com> To subscribe (new addresses), E-mail to: <os2-wireless_users-on@2rosenthals.com> and reply to the confirmation email. Web archives are publicly available at: http://lists.2rosenthals.com This list is hosted by Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC P.O. Box 281, Deer Park, NY 11729-0281. Non- electronic communications related to content contained in these messages should be directed to the above address. (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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