From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <4B10A284.3070704@durrant.mine.nu>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:09:40 +1100
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (OS/2/20090822)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Wireless LAN Monitor problems
References: <list-1968182@2rosenthals.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-1968182@2rosenthals.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Greggory D Shaw wrote:
> In have a Dell Latitude D810, with a Card,Wireless,Mini Pci Card
> 1370,Broadcom Corporation. I have eCom 2.0 RC6a installed and I finally
> got the wireless card working, with a few problems.
>
> 1) I have to use the command line utilities from GenMac. to connect the
> wireless router.
>     a) ssid -wep 0x123456xxxxxxx
>     b) ssid -ssid  ssidname
>     c) then use Wireless LAN Monitor to connect, select Public hotspot
> => scan for hotspots=>select my wireless network.
>
> 2) The wireless network is an old type A, 11Mb. -  WEP  128bit. Does 
> the  Wireless LAN Monitor  work  with this setup.
>
> 3) What I want is to be able to connect at Starbuck or any public hot
> spot using DHCP.  My onborad LAN is LAN0 and the wireless is LAN1.
>
> 4) I have no experience with setting up wireless on OS/2 and any help
> would be welcome!
>
> 5) I don't care about the Wireless A setup, only using DHCP with
> Starbucks at public hotspot.(no encryption ).
>
>
> Greggory
>
>   
I think most hotspots will fall back to 802.11B from 802.11G or N but 
not to 802.11A. You may be lucky and find one or two that support the 
old (different frequency) 802.11A 54Mb/s standard.

Are you sure you don't have 802.11B (which was an 11Mb/s standard) ?

XWLAN "should" handle this kind of connection - I have not needed to use 
the command line utilities for a long time.

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

eComStationAustralia podcast RSS feed http://eComStationAustralia.podbean.com/feed or iTunes