X-Account-Key: account1 X-UIDL: 102411 X-Mozilla-Keys: Return-Path: X-ListServer: CommuniGate Pro LIST 5.1.3 List-Unsubscribe: List-ID: List-Archive: Precedence: list Message-ID: Reply-To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Sender: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" From: "Al Heath" Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:55:36 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; Boundary="0__=09BBF86EDFD8DAE98f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF86EDFD8DAE9" Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] It used to work... --0__=09BBF86EDFD8DAE98f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF86EDFD8DAE9 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable "Lewis G Rosenthal" @2rosenthals.co= m> on 06/16/2007 08:27:08 pm Please respond to "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Sent by: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" cc: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] It used to work... On 06/16/07 08:38 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : >> In , on 06/16/07 >> at 04:40 PM, "Sandy Shapiro" = >> typed: >I have the exact same experience with my Thinkpad T42 (Ather= os >> card). >XWLAN works with wireless if there is no encryption, but if = one of >> the >encryption protocols is enabled, it does not connect. Under Win= dows >> XP >there is no problem. >> >> Encryption hadn't been enabled before, and that didn't change. >> >To which on 06/16/07, Lewis G Rosenthal replied: >I've observed the same behavior as Sandy reports. I have a client wher= e >we have WPA2 configured and SSID beaconing turned off. XWLAN keeps >searching and can't find the AP... > >Lewis My experience with a T23 of mine with a NetGear WG511T is a little different. If I use 1.6 or 1.7 of Genmac, then I CAN connect to public= hotpots AND WEP encrypted non SSID beaconing access points (the ones th= at I know about and maintain ... having made them just a little more diffic= ult for some uninvited people to get into by using insecure WEP and non beaconing. Yes, it could still be hacked, I know..) However, If I try= version 2.0, then I can ONLY connect to non encrypted beaconing access points. It will NEVER connect (using the same SSID and wep keys as the= 1.6 / 1.7 drivers use and connect successfully) to that very same access po= int that 1.6 or 1.7 will connect to. However in my case with either the 1.x or 2.0 versions, I frequently wi= ll get a Trap killing the entire system if I open or close PM apps. Howev= er I can connect and do ftp transfers and surf the internet for a while (don= 't close any windows or tabs) before the system traps. So pretty much is = it useless for serious work. On my T42 and thus with a different Atheros = MAC driver, the system is stable on 1.x and I have not had a need to attemp= t to upgrade to 2.0 This stuff has come a long way but I do hope it will get better soon. Al= --0__=09BBF86EDFD8DAE98f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF86EDFD8DAE9 Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

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On 06/16/07 08:38 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : >> In <list-1223165@2rosenthals.com>, on 06/16/07 >> at 04:40 PM, "Sandy Shapiro" <os2-wi= reless_users@2rosenthals.com> >> typed: >I have the exact same experience with my Thinkpad T= 42 (Atheros >> card). >XWLAN works with wireless if there is no encryption= , but if one of >> the >encryption protocols is enabled, it does not connect. = Under Windows >> XP >there is no problem. >> >> Encryption hadn't been enabled before, and that didn't change.= >>
>To which on 06/16/07, Lewis G Rosenthal replied:>I've observed the same behavior as Sandy reports. I have a client w= here >we have WPA2 configured and SSID beaconing turned off. XWLAN keeps<= br> >searching and can't find the AP... > >Lewis
My experience with a T23 of mine with a NetGear WG511T is a little = different. If I use 1.6 or 1.7 of Genmac, then I CAN connect to p= ublic hotpots AND WEP encrypted non SSID beaconing access points (the o= nes that I know about and maintain ... having made them just a li= ttle more difficult for some uninvited people to get into by using inse= cure WEP and non beaconing. Yes, it could still be hacked, I know= ..) However, If I try version 2.0, then I can ONLY connect to non= encrypted beaconing access points. It will NEVER connect (using = the same SSID and wep keys as the 1.6 / 1.7 drivers use and connect suc= cessfully) to that very same access point that 1.6 or 1.7 will connect = to.

However in my case with either the 1.x or 2.0 versions, I frequentl= y will get a Trap killing the entire system if I open or close PM apps.= However I can connect and do ftp transfers and surf the internet= for a while (don't close any windows or tabs) before the system traps.= So pretty much is it useless for serious work. On my T42 a= nd thus with a different Atheros MAC driver, the system is stable on 1.= x and I have not had a need to attempt to upgrade to 2.0

This stuff has come a long way but I do hope it will get better soo= n.

Al = --0__=09BBF86EDFD8DAE98f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF86EDFD8DAE9--