Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6744

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS prefers GenMac
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:43:46 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 03/26/10 05:38 pm, Andy Willis thus wrote : Neil Waldhauer wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:37:22 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Saville" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote: Has anyone noticed that ECS 2.* seems to prefer to set a card up with Genmac - Even though it is a supported card and the drivers are there? Happened twice to me. Once on a Tpad with an Intel internal NIC and again on a desktop with a 3Com PCI NIC. Both have working OS/2 drivers - which I changed to. Because GenMac works a lot better than the native drivers for a lot of tasks. Maybe not yours, though. It would be nice to have a program list the choices. Neil Also because GenMac is using NDIS5 instead of NDIS2. This allows things like Yuri's cable attach program to work which allows me to plug into wire and boot to wire and boot without wire and boot to wireless use. Indeed, the biggest advantage of GenMAC over native drivers is the NDIS5 functionality which we lack using DOS...er...OS/2 drivers. :-) Obviously, for many devices, there are still advantages to using the native ones than GenMAC (some Proliant servers, like the ML370 G3 on which this mailing list is hosted, *must* use the native driver, as GenMAC can't even *see* the Broadcom chip). Still, it would be nice for the installer to pop up a message saying that both a GenMAC and a native driver are available, a brief blurb about the pros and cons of each, and give the user the option of which one he or she wants to use. I guess one of us should open an RFE bug for this for 2.1. ;-) -- 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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