From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.20] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.20] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2010585 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:18:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4B397515.2090405@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:18:45 -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: More than 1GB of RAM References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A: Because it's hard to follow the train of thought. Q: Why is it so difficult to read top postings in mailing list threads? :-) More thoughts, below, Sam: On 12/28/09 09:49 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : > 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? > Hmmm... My first inclination would have been something to do with the amount of video RAM you reserved. As that appears to not be the case (you did power cycle after making that change, didn't you?), I might suspect something with the Windows driver itself. Do you have Windows installed on the machine? I'd be curious to know what version/timestamp the .inf & .sys files show. I'm much more familiar with the Intel wireless cards and their related drivers, so I may need to turn this over to folks who know the Broadcom wireless better. A quick Google, however, mentions a number of hits (possibly related) about hangs and such with various builds of the bcmw15.sys driver: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bcmwl5.sys+memory&aq=f&oq=&aqi= You might want to try to track down a newer (or older) build of the driver, and give that a whirl. The easiest way to do this is by checking HP's downloads site for an updated driver for your notebook (Broadcom doesn't seem to list the wireless drivers in their reference downloads). Hopefully, the download will be a simple zip archive (even if it's a self-extracting Windows exe, as long as it's really a zip archive, you can still open it easily enough with the usual unarchiving tools). Anybody else have any better ideas? > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Sam Lewis 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 0 ---- . >> 4-14-07 9:09p 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 >> 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 >>>> 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. >>> >>> -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------