From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.154.210.114]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1955849 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:30 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: SnapperMail 2.3.7.01 by Snapperfish To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: cbenable switches for ThinkPad T43 Message-ID: <102-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC72B1C20@[10.154.210.114]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:48:08 -0500 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hey... On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:52:45 -0700 "Andy Willis" wrote: >Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> Greetings, all. I'm testing a Cisco AIR-CB21AG-A-K9 (Aironet A/B/G >> CardBus adapter) which should have an Atheros AR5212 (168C:0013) in it, >> and might work in unsupported mode. However, I can't quite seem to be >> able to get cbenable to work right, and haven't the time to really dig >> into it right now. Andy, I don't recall what settings you used on your >> machine at Warpstock when we were testing cards... >> >> TIA >> >Sorry, thought this had sent but just found it in my drafts when I >realized I hadn't seen it come back. > Happens to the best of us. ;-) >First thing is that ACPI is not compatible with cbenable. Right. That I did seem to recall. That said, most notebooks requiring ACPI will already have onboard Wi-Fi, and not need a PC card. >Second is that I had to make sure that Cardbus V8 is installed (eCS 2.0 >RC 7 is the only so far to ship that way). I forgot about this. I'll bet this is what's hanging me up at this point. Thanks for the reminder. >I then have the following in my config.sys: > >BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS /R:500 >BASEDEV=IBM2SS14.SYS >rem BASEDEV=sspcic.sys /VS:auto /E /AP:on //Apsoft driver >rem BaseDev=CBENABLE.SYS * * 0 0 PCIIRQ >rem BaseDev=OEMHLP2.SYS >BASEDEV=AUTODRV2.SYS >DEVICE=D:\UTILS\THINKPAD\VPCMCIA.SYS > This is actually less specific than the params installed on my T43 by Veit's installer. I'm not near the machine right now, but I'll post later. >The Apsoft driver was not compatible with cbenable. >I have cbenable remmed currently as I am not using it but this is what I >had. IIRC oemhlp2 is also part of the cbenable and so also needs to be >unremmed. This is the order I had the drivers as well. > Now I have a better recollection. I'm not using the Apsoft driver, but I'll bet my stack is 5.0, not 8.0 (whatever happened to 6.x & 7.x?)... >The cards I used did not require unsupported mode and I don't think the >one you have there should need it. The 2 I had that worked well were >Atheros. The Broadcom chipset would freeze at helperw (which reminds me >that I need to find time to work with that card some more). > It may not. We'll soon see! Thanks! ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal a Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail