Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6739

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] Firmware for USB wireless sticks
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:15:35 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 03/26/10 12:58 pm, Will Honea thus wrote : ** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:13:07 -0400 Are you saying that you can connect a USB Wi-Fi device to eCS 2.0 RC4, and it comes up, binds, and passes traffic? So you WERE paying attention! :-) Yes, I was pleasantly surprised when I put the last eCS RC I had access to on the laptop. First, it came up and jumped right onto the network with the built in card. A first! So I pushed my luck and stuck in the Belkin USB device, disabled the on board wireless and booted. Up it came. Never really thought it would work, but it did. I didn't try too much on it but it definitely got onto the LAN. I don't recall if I tried to get a wan connection or not but I see no reason for it not to work if DHCP got me a default address. That's why I asked about the Linux route here. I'm hoping that GenMac has the firmware files I need buried somewhere that I can get at. I doubt that GenMAC has the firmware files you need. Not only does it not support USB devices, but it does not handle downloading firmware to any supported (or unsupported) devices. So, it has no reason to come with them. I'm curious as to whether or not XWLAN sees the Belkin USB device. My guess would be no, for a number of reasons (the native driver will be NDIS2 vs the Windows wrapper, which uses NDIS5, for example). Still, it would be interesting to know. I'm still floored that we had a driver for the USB stick at all... Who knew!? -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------

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