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 1969593 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:13:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4B12C7EF.5000703@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:13:51 -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] USB wireless NICs (external) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Jordan... On 11/29/09 12:34 pm, J R FOX thus wrote : > This is a question I've had in mind for a long time, but this > list should be a much better place to ask than what previously > turned up in my attempts to research it. > > The computers I've been using more than any others, over the > last few years, are a couple models of the Shuttle XPC series. > (SFF -- small form factor -- about the size of two shoeboxes, > stacked.) They each have one free PCI slot, and that's it. > I could have put conventional wireless NIC cards in, choosing > ones that were also supported for eCS, but I didn't. In one, > I reserved that single slot for other use. The other one has > a higher performance video card that is effectively a "1.5" -- > not the double-wide kind, but still thick enough to compromise > use of the adjacent PCI slot. > > My solution was to use an external, thumb-drive style NIC-stick. > This gave me very convenient internet access, but only on the > Dark Side. (I've used different ones -- like from Hawking -- > that were based on Atheros, Broadcom, or Zydax chipsets.) I > did read my way through those websites that compile the wireless- > NICs-for-OS/2 info, but what I found there indicated that support > for this type of NIC under OS/2 | eCS was going to be a non- > starter. They are apparently a special case that does not fall > within the umbrella of Genmac. There were some Alpha or Beta > drivers for Linux in circulation, but that appeared to be as close > as we could get, i.e. not very. I'm not going to be coding or > porting any drivers in the forseeable future. > > So, I was wondering if anyone on the list might just happen to > know of some NIC-stick model I'm unaware of, that _has_ been > made to work under eCS ? > Until we have a new USB stack for OS/2, wireless networking is not going to be possible, AIUI. However, your workaroudn might be to install a working *wired* USB stick connected to an ethernet bridge device (such as the Asus WL-330g or the LinkSys WET54G). For a (somewhat dated) list of supported USB NICs check out http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?pageid=7&url=os2/hardware/usb2.htm . HTH -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------