From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.28]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1969085 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4B11C35B.3030706@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:42:03 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Wireless LAN Monitor problems References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, thanks. Let's see if I can help clarify a few things for you: On 11/28/09 05:13 pm, Greggory D Shaw thus wrote : > 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: > > Vendor 14E4h Broadcom Corp > Device 4318h BCM4309 802.11a/b/g > Subsystem ID 00051028h Unknown > Subsystem Vendor 1028h Dell Computer Corp > > Thanks. This card is indeed supported by GenMAC and should work with XWLAN. > 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? > > This should be unnecessary. Try this: Completely remove any configuration you have in your TCP/IP setup for LAN1. XWLAN handles all of this, and as Ed has pointed out, limitations in the OS/2 TCP/IP stack allow for only a single interface to be enabled for DHCP at any given time. XWLAN handles this through some slight of hand. In PROTOCOL.INI, set your SSID to ANY. You should be able to turn the radio on from XWLAN (Enable Radio from the context menu). Ensure that this works for you. If you are not able to turn the radio on and off from XWLAN, then we need to look more closely at the XWLAN configuration to see why it is not seeing your card at this stage. Create a profile in XWLAN (Add/Edit Profile...) for your home network. If using DHCP at home, then ensure that option is set in the profile. Once you connect, if your wireless network is on the same subnet as your wired one, and you are already connected via wire, you will be prompted for which connection to use. See if that works. I think we may be getting hung up on the radio activation step. Cheers/2 -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------