Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6605

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] GENMAC hangs my system
Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:33:22 -0500
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Hi, guys... On 02/20/10 03:47 pm, Ed Durrant thus wrote : Bob wrote: <snip> I can now connect to the internet using the wired NIC and a Linksys with DD-WRT (THANK YOU Lewis, this is not what I bought this for but it works) to connect to the internet. You're very welcome, and glad it's coming in so handy (even if the reason for using it in this manner is not so much fun...)! What I think would work is if I could open the "Wireless LAN Monitor" and configure a profile to connect to the open SSID it would work. What I think is happening is that it is trying to connect to anything and whatever it is trying is not to its liking and hanging the system. Is there a way to prevent the connection until I manually indicate what and when to connect to? GENMAC v2..2 and XWLAN v3.10 setup as a standalone program not a widget. I don't have XWLAN running on this system, but I do believe there is a parameter setting in the program, that says whether to connect at startup of the application or not. Disabling this should allow you to confirm if indeed the problem is GenMAC/WiFi related or in fact something completely different. Indeed: Properties notebook (remember when those used to be called "Settings" notebooks, and they actually looked like notebooks?) - second tab (Connection Scan): uncheck both scan options ("scan for connections on startup" and "scan for connections on card insertion"). On some systems, the interval between profile changes in seconds (the next option down on that page) can cause a hang if none of the profiles are available (so it keeps looping, rather quickly). This does not happen on all systems, as I say, but I have seen it (I think Stan mentioned this to me first). This may indeed be your problem, Bob. In any event, you should be able to keep XWLAN from seeking out a connection before selecting something from the list of profiles or telling it to scan for a hotspot. HTH & GL -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------

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