From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:45:54 +1100
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Wireless LAN Monitor problems
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Greggory D Shaw wrote:
>
>
> You are right about it being 802.11B, but the problem is that I need
> LAN1 (wireless) activated on startup with DHCP for starbucks (public no
> encryption).
>
> There is just a configuration problem with Wireless LAN Monitor for my
> system eCom rc6a.
>
> 1) Have onborand Nic (LAN0) and wireless (LAN1).
> 2) How to activated LAN1 with DHCP
>
>   
There is a restriction in OS/2 and eCS that you cannot permanently have 
two LAN ports with DHCP addresses. One approach is to have your local 
LAN port configured with a Static IP address and the WLAN with DHCP.

One of the main reasons for using the XWLAN widget however is that it 
takes care of this for you. I can be configured so that when you start 
the widget (which can be automatic at start up) it adjusts the IP 
settings to check that you are not accessing the same network with both 
your LAN and WLAN connections (and in this case asks which to disable) 
and then starts up configuration of the WLAN card (normally using DHCP 
as you don't know what address range is being used  at a hotspot). XWLAN 
allows you to create profiles that on startup of the widget, if it finds 
a matching network it will use automatically. It also has the option to 
scan for hotspots and connect.

So in fact XWLAN is exactly the tool you need for what you are trying to 
do! In theory you could leave your LAN also set to DHCP and XWLAN will 
handle disabling that if needed but I prefer to set my LAN address, 
since I know the subnet it is on to a static address (note you also need 
to set DNS and default router/gateway address when you set a static IP 
address).
 

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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