Lewis,
I got tired of people who use outlook thinking that I just sent their
email back and didn't bother to scroll down to see what I wrote. Now
with the lack of a real email client on most OS's it's almost
impossible to quote someone elses message and reply inline and most
people don't know that is what you are doing.
So I started typing my message at the top. I do miss the good old
days of the fidonet groups and my silver express reader.
Sam
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> 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 <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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