From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:55:21 +1100
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] USB wireless NICs (external)
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J R FOX 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 ?  
>
>
>   Jordan
>
>
>
>   
A simpler option might be external, ethernet connected WiFi adapters as 
used for some ganes consoles. You connect to them as a router via an 
ethernet cable rather than USB. They are a little larger than your USB 
stick, but as they are OS agnostic, they work without the need for any 
new drivers.

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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