From: "Thomas Dennis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:58:35 +0100
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Hi, Thomas...
>
> On 02/10/10 03:42 pm, Thomas Dennis thus wrote :
>> Hi:
>> I'm trying to get my Laptop to work with eCS 2.0 rc7.
>> Since my Laptop is an older model I'm using a PCMCIA
>> plug-in card.  A D-Link DWA 645.  The chipset is suppose
>> to an Atheros but I haven't been able to establish it
>> as a fact.
>> I did download two s/w packages from Netlabs that are
>> for the Atheros chipset but I have not been able to
>> install them. The problem may be due to one of the files being
>> saddled with the DOS name regulation 8:3.  I have
>> renamed it correctly as it is on the Internet, but
>> one of the eCS 2.0 rc7 widgets keeps showing the
>> DOS file name.
>> Like:    GENMAC220_ATHEROS.WPI
>>         GENMAC~1.WPI
>> Where it's getting this data from I don't know.
>> WarpIN, which came with eCS 2.0, gives me an error
>> message saying that:
>> "GenMac could not find any network interface card in
>> the system!"
>> Can anybody tell me what the problem is?
>> Am I doing something wrong or left something out that
>> needs to be included?
> You need to install Veit's cbenable driver to get GenMAC to see the 
> card and turn it on. Please see my other post of 2/3 @ 8:25pm EST. 
> Without cbenable, there's no "glue" to bind the card slots to the PCI 
> bus (insofar as GenMAC is concerned), so it doesn't see the card.
>
> Also, in that same message, I asked you to provide the PCI ID string 
> of the card, so that we could be certain of the chipset. If you need 
> assistance with this step of the process, please advise.
>
> You should probably review 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/1187 , et seq.
>
Lewis:
I would love to be able to use cbenable.arj but
my s/w doesn't handle it very well.  As of this
moment I haven't found a plug-in for WarpZip that
will unpack this file.  Do you know where I can
find the .zip version of this s/w?

Thomas