Well I tried setting the shared video ram back to 32MB and that didn't
make any difference. Think it may be the actual driver .sys file?
Thanks,
Sam
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Sam Lewis <saml@rollanet.org> wrote:
> Lewis,
> Here is the directory of the wrapper directory. Does this tell which
> driver specifically it is? Its the Broadcom B/G
>
> Directory of C:\genmac\driver\WRAPPER_14E4_4318
>
> 4-14-07 9:09p <DIR> 0 ---- .
> 4-14-07 9:09p <DIR> 0 ---- ..
> 9-02-05 7:23p 1,739 0 a--- bcmwl5.inf
> 12-22-04 2:32a 369,024 0 a--- bcmwl5.sys
> 4 file(s) 370,763 bytes used
>
> There are no settings in the BIOS for memory, except for how much will
> be used for the video card. I was only using 32MB for the Video but
> when I upgraded the RAM I changed it to 128MB. I'll try and put that
> back to 32MB and see what happens.
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal
> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>> Hi, guys...
>>
>> On 12/28/09 07:43 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote :
>>>
>>> I thought some folks were having some kind of issue like this a while
>>> back. I had been running Genmac 2.00, so I first updated to 14.104a
>>> kernel and that didn't make a difference so I updated to Genmac 2.20,
>>> with that it will boot but the wifi won't work. When doing the scan
>>> the Wifi light just comes off and on, not quite a blink.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Chuck McKinnis
>>> <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My Lenovo T61 runs eCS 2.0RC7 with 2 Gb, GENMAC and all.
>>>>
>>>> Sam Lewis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone had trouble with Genmac after installing 2GB of RAM? I
>>>>> have had eCS 1.2r on my HP/Compaq Presario Notebook for 3 or so years
>>>>> with no problems. I just upgraded the system from 512MB to 2GB and
>>>>> now it won't boot after loading Genmac. I can drop it to 1GB and it
>>>>> will work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I reverted back to the wired Realtek interface and it now works fine.
>>>>>
>>
>> Sam, what card is that in your machine, and what files *specifically* do you
>> have in the WRAPPER directory? My thinking is that this may be related to
>> the Windows driver component (and perhaps its interaction with GenMAC) and
>> not something which is directly related to GenMAC. I recently built a system
>> with an Intel 2915ABG wireless card and 4GB RAM; no problems booting
>> whatsoever.
>>
>> The issue which some saw was with booting the eCS CD itself with more than
>> 1GB RAM, but this has since been addressed. Also, are there any
>> memory-specific settings in the BIOS which you can try toggling (one at a
>> time, preferably) to see if they have any effect? Perhaps with more than 1GB
>> of RAM, the system is automatically mapping something to a previously
>> uninstalled memory address.
>>
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