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Thomas Dennis wrote:
> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>> On 02/23/10 07:35 pm, Thomas Dennis thus wrote :
>>> 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.
>> First, I'm assuming that you have confirmed via pci.exe that 0023 is 
>> indeed your device ID.
>>
>> In the nif, the section:
>>
>> [DEVICE]
>> Display = "0023"
>> Type = Hexadecimal
>> Range = 0-FFFF
>> Optional = UNSUPPORTED
>> Editable = NO
>> Default  = 0023
>> Help= "Device-ID of your NIC"
>>
>> should read:
>>
>> [DEVICE]
>> Display = "0023"
>> Type = Hexadecimal
>> Range = 0-FFFF
>> Optional = NO
>> Editable = NO
>> Default  = 0023
>> Help= "Device-ID of your NIC"
>>
>> and the section:
>>
>> [OPTIONS]
>> Display = "Wrapper Options"
>> Type = String
>> StrLength = 64
>> Default = "NONE"
>> Optional = YES
>> Editable = YES
>> Help= "You need to provide the OPTIONS."
>>
>> should more properly read (unless you were to edit your PROTOCOL.INI 
>> manually):
>>
>> [OPTIONS]
>> Display = "Wrapper Options"
>> Type = String
>> StrLength = 64
>> Default = "UNSUPPORTED"
>> Optional = YES
>> Editable = YES
>> Help= "You need to provide the OPTIONS."
>>
>> PROTOCOL.INI looks like it makes sense.
>>> 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?
>>>
>> My error. The IBMCOM tree should look like this:
>>
>> \IBMCOM\
>>    \DLL\
>>    \MACS\
>>    \PROTOCOL\
>>
>> MAC drivers (network devices) and nifs go under MACS. Protocol 
>> drivers (TCP/IP, NetBIOS, ODI2NDI, etc.) and their related nifs go 
>> under PROTOCOL.
>>
> Lewis:
> Yes, have confirmed in two places that that this D-Link card uses the
> 168C:0023 value.  By the PCI snooper and in the Win Registry.
>
> We have come another step forward.
> Under the GenMacs sign-on message when booting we now have the following:
>
> Loaded for device : Unsupported DEVICE!!!  [168C:0023]  (WRND32$)
>
> I think that means that the s/w is now able to use the W168Cx0023.nif and
> the PROTOCOL.ini files and that they are probably as good as you are 
> going
> to get them.
> The .ini and the .nif files both contain the date and the time which they
> were last updated.
> The Win .sys and .inf files are from Win2k.
>
> Thomas
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Lewis:
I'm sorry, but I copied the wrong .nif file. Here is the correct one.

Thomas

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