Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Wireless LAN Monitor problems
Date:
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:13:55 -0600
To:
OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Hi, Greggory. Some thoughts, below:
>
> On 11/27/09 07:09 pm, Greggory D Shaw thus 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.
>>
>>
> Type 802.11a is 54Mbps, not 11. However, the more appropriate question
> is whether XWLAN supports your card. What driver are you using?
>> 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 ).
>>
>>
> If you are using the GenMAC driver, then the latest XWLAN should
> support it. If not, there is a good chance that you may have to use an
> older version of XWLAN, and even then, it may or may not work for that
> card. However, this can be scripted so that it can be done with a
> couple of clicks. XWLAN is just so much nicer.
>
> If you can run pci -s and post the PCI ID string of the wireless card,
> as well as which driver you are using for it, that would be extremely
> helpful.
>
> Cheers/2
>
Here is the output from PCI.EXE -s:
After I manually add the Wep key, ssid, XWLAN show green connect icon.
So, XWLAN works, does anyone have a script to start dhcp and configure
wirless setup?
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