** 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.
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