From: "Thomas Dennis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-ID: <4B847444.2020806@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:35:16 +0100
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To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] GenMac driver
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Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> Sorry for the delay; turning out to be a busy day...
>
> On 02/22/10 12:47 pm, Thomas Dennis thus wrote :
>> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>>> Hi, Thomas...
>>>
>>> Thomas Dennis wrote:
>>>> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/21/10 03:32 am, Thomas Dennis thus wrote :
>>>>>> Hi All:
>>>>>> I must have done something right because I now get the
>>>>>> GenMac Sign-on message.  But there is a small detail that
>>>>>> I haven't been able to correct.
>>>>>> And that's a green blinking notice that:
>>>>>> "No valid hardware found for (WRND32$)"
> <snip>
>>>> What is this section in the PROTOCOL.ini [W8086x4224_NIF]
>>>> designed for. It looks like it would be something for an Intel chip.
>>>> I have no such entry in my PROTOCOL.ini.
>>> Nor should you. Indeed, that is the entry for *my* Intel chip. Yours 
>>> will be something like [W168Cx001C_NIF] for an Atheros AR5008, for 
>>> example.
>>>> Is that due to the fact that the Chip Set in the D-Link
>>>> card is from Atheros?
>>> Yes. The 168C is the manufacturer code, and the 001C is the model 
>>> code. Put them together (168C:001C) and you have a PCI ID string. 
>>> Each PCI device has a (hopefully) unique ID string.
> <snip>
>>> Because our cards are different. These refer to the filenames of the 
>>> Windows driver files located in the wrapper directory.
>>>> From where do these two entries originate?
>>>> If my understanding is correct than these two files should
>>>> be in x:\IBMCOM\MACS but these files aren't there.
>>> No. Only the GenMAC nif and GENM32W.OS2 driver will be there. The 
>>> wrapper files stay under the GenMAC tree.
>>>
>>> Your wrapper nif is also incorrect. Under the FILE section, it 
>>> should read:
>>>
>>> [FILE]
>>> Name = GENM32W.OS2
>>> Path = IBMCOM\MACS
>>>
> <snip>
>>>> Or are these two from Windows?
>>> Yes. You need to put them in your wrapper directory.
> <snip>
>>  
>> The Windows drivers for the D-Link/AR5008 card are
>> "ar5416.sys" and "net5416.inf".
> So I see. You still have an error in your PROTOCOL.INI file:
>
> [W168CX001C]
>
>   DriverName = WRND32$
>   VENDOR = 0x168C
>   DEVICE = 0x001C
>   NDIS_SYS = "ar5416.sys"
>   NDIS_INF = "net5416.nif"
>   SSID = "ANY"
>   DEBUGLEVEL = "NONE"
>   OPTIONS = "UNSUPPORTED"
>
> The section name should correspond to what's up at the top, so it 
> should be:
>
> [W168CX001C_NIF]
>
> This is why you should probably have put the files in place and let 
> MPTS edit the file for you. No matter; it should be right when you 
> make this change (unless someone else on the list has picked up on 
> something I missed?)...
>
> The nif looks fine.
>> Question.
>> Where should I put these files so the program can
>> find them?
>>
> I thought I covered this in my presentation, but perhaps I didn't 
> create a slide for it... Anyway, follow along:
>
> To answer your previous question (and then this one, by extension), 
> somewhere on your drive, you have a "genmac" directory. This is either 
> under the root of your boot drive or under \ecs\system. Starting from 
> there, you should have a directory tree (what I referred to earlier as 
> the "GenMAC tree") which looks like this:
>
> genmac\
>    bin\
>    driver\
>       WRAPPER_168C_001C\ <- you need to create this (obviously without 
> the trailing "\"!); this is the wrapper directory
>    inf\
>    nif\
>
> Copy the Win32 driver & inf to the newly created 
> genmac\driver\WRAPPER_168C_001C directory. Copy the nif you edited 
> into the nif directory (and your \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\MACS directory, if 
> you like).
>
> Your CONFIG.SYS should be ready to go, as GENM32W.OS2 will pick up the 
> Win32 driver it is supposed to load from the entries in PROTOCOL.INI.
>
> Remember that there is NO GUARANTY that this will work. I do not know 
> of anyone who has tried the AR5008 chipset, so we're all anxiously 
> awaiting news.
>
> GL
Lewis:
When you have the time, check the two files for errors.  I think 
everything has been corrected and they are now
the way they should be.  But who knows.  I'm only human.
I went looking for the MACS folder at \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL but it doesn't 
seem to be at that location.
It's at \IBMCOM\MACS.  Is this an error?

Thomas

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