From: "Bob" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:15:03 -0800
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] GENMAC hangs my system
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** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal"
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:33:22 -0500

> >> 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").

Those were already unchecked.


> 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).

The interval was 2 seconds.  I changed it to the maximum 60 seconds.  Now it
opens and I can select a profile before it hangs.  So far so good.  I am
writing this message using the wireless NIC.

After this I did select a profile that did not have an SSID and the system hung
up and I had to do a power cycle.   One of the available access points is doing
something that GENMAC and/or XWLAN does not like.

Thanks guys.

-- 
Robert Blair