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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:35:23 -0700
From: "Neil Waldhauer" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] *SPAM* Re: [OS2Wireless] Realtech driver?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:46:38 +1000, "Ed Durrant"
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:

> The 8139 is wired ethernet and has a native OS/2 driver, you don't need 
> to use Genmac.

I totally agree. The 8139 has excellent OS/2 support.

> 
> As for auto switching between wired and wireless, I do believe this has 
> been requested. What happens at present is that if XWLAN (not genmac 
> itself) sees that you are connected to the same network at the same time 
> via wireless and wired, it pops up a message and asks you which you wish 
> to operate on.

I disgree. I believed that this was the plan for XWLAN eventually. You would
not want this logic at the driver level for many reasons.

You can write your own REXX program to implement transparent switching, but it
won't be fast, because of the OS/2 DHCP client. So once we have a new DHCP
client, we can also have fast, transparent switching.

Finally, there is some advantage in the features provided by GenMac over the
standard OS/2 drivers, even the 8139 driver, which is one of the best.

GenMac implements NDIS 5, rather than NDIS 2. I'm not conversant with the API
differences, but they allow, for example, some of the new features for XWLAN.

Neil
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Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com

Never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.

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