From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.18] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.18] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2242807 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:02:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8569CB.2070409@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:02:51 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] GenMac driver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/24/10 12:32 pm, Thomas Dennis thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> Hi... >> >> On 02/24/10 07:16 am, Thomas Dennis thus wrote : >> >> >>> 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. >>> >> Good. >>> 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$) >>> >> Looks right. >>> 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 proof of the pudding will be whether NETBIND is able to run >> without hanging and whether you can actually carry traffic. Once you >> can confirm that, then you should run netio (download the OS/2 >> version from here: http://www.ars.de/ars/ars.nsf/docs/netio ) and get >> some objective measurements of performance. >> >> >> >> Good work! > Lewis: > NETBIND? Sorry, it doesn't ring any bells with me! > Can you give me a clue as to what it does and where to find it?. > Is it already on my PC? There is a call to NETBIND in your CONFIG.SYS. That's what *binds* the protocol(s) to the card driver... > Looking in the "Lan Adapter and Protocol Config." the W168CX0023.nif > is selected > and under that we have "0 - IBMIEE 802.2" and "0 - IBMTCP/IP". > In the list of Network Cards there is a "IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC > Card-128" > which sounds interesting. Booting doesn't hang. > Okay... But does it *work*? What does XWLAN say? Can it scan for a connection and can you associate and get an IP address. Also, why do you have IBMIEEE 802.2 bound? You surely don't need this for this card... -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------