There hasn't been any announcements since Christmas so I thought I'd throw one out so people know the list is still alive. If anyone has anything to announce they need to send it to
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Since people are still frequently looking for the old beta drivers for the few working wireless 802.11b PCMCIA cards, I have uploaded what I have to the VOICE FTP server. These are not the drivers released by IBM on Software Choice for the IBM High Rate PCMCIA card and the IBM Prism based Mini-PCI cards in Thinkpads. You must have an eComStation license to access those drivers or access to the soon to be closed IBM Software Choice site. These are drivers which were crafted a few years ago but never made it out of Beta stage and were never released.
The Cisco 340/350 PCMCIA card driver can be downloaded at ftp://os2voice.org/CiscoPCM.0.91.A502.zip. This works well with both the Cisco 340 and Cisco 350 PCMCIA cards that I have used it with. According
to the readme no encryption was working with this release. You can use the included wifistat.exe or Christian Langanke's excellent WLAN Monitor (Available as an XCenter Widget and standalone program, Wireless LAN hardware & driver req. English, German and Swedish NLS. Homepage: http://wlan.netlabs.org)
The GenPrism driver can be downloaded at
ftp://os2voice.org/genprism.2.0rc4.zip
This driver should work with many Prism chipset based PCMCIA cards like the Lucent Gold PCMCIA card or so I
was told as I have never had one to test it with. This is just the driver files since it was a beta update for testing purposes. To configure the connection you need either the wifistat.exe that comes with one of the
released versions or the Cisco350 version also on the VOICE FTP server
ftp://os2voice.org/CiscoPCM.0.91.A502.zip or the WLAN utility available from Netlabs - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan300.zip
To my knowledge both of these were the last betas released by the developer who has since disappeared so there is no support available. If you have a newer Cardbus or Mini-PCI wireless card you should try Willibald Meyer's GenMac 2.00 driver http://genmac.netlabs.org/ . There is an article I wrote on my experience with the 1.7 release of GenMac at
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_4.html
For more information on wireless networking under eComStation and OS/2 check out the following forums:
OS2Wireless mailing list:
http://mail.2rosenthals.com:8100/Lists/os2-wireless_users/List.html or to subscribe (new addresses), E-mail to:
WLAN support mailing list:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general or to subscribe,
e-mail:
GenMac User mailing list:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user or to subscribe,
e-mail:
Mark
Source: OS2VOICE