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Intel 2915ABG on a T41 with OS/2 (questions)
Devon:
So I finally got my T41 upgraded and thrown back together. The Intel 2915ABG wifi card is installed, and the BIOS has been modded to disable the whitelisting. IBM states in their documentation that the 2915ABG is not supported on the T41, only the T42 and beyond (however I presume that's due to the said whitelisting). The BIOS did complain that an unsupported Wifi module was detected prior to modding the BIOS.
Whenever I boot into OS/2 (ArcaOS) I only see the wired Intel NIC, when I disabled the wired Intel NIC OS/2 then complains because it's no longer present and the way it configures things is very stepped like that.
So... my question is...
Should I reinstall ArcaOS if it needs to see network devices during the installation process to set up? And if I do, how exactly does one get GenMAC going?
I'm presuming that the T41 is in fact compatible with the 2915ABG.
Dave Yeo:
ArcaOS seems to default to only installing one network driver. Here on my T42 it would default to the wired nic. Luckily I previously had eCS installed, which correctly setup both wired and wireless, so knew which driver to install.
You should be able to use MPTN (Adapters and Protocols) to install the GENMAC driver, something like GenMac Wrapper Intel 2915 a/b/g [8086:4224]. There's a few similar ones, you might have to use PCI to get the exact card ID. Then of course you need the WPA Supplicant or the Xcenter plugin to turn the radio on and such.
Roderick Klein:
--- Quote from: Devon on May 29, 2018, 08:01:47 pm ---So I finally got my T41 upgraded and thrown back together. The Intel 2915ABG wifi card is installed, and the BIOS has been modded to disable the whitelisting. IBM states in their documentation that the 2915ABG is not supported on the T41, only the T42 and beyond (however I presume that's due to the said whitelisting). The BIOS did complain that an unsupported Wifi module was detected prior to modding the BIOS.
Whenever I boot into OS/2 (ArcaOS) I only see the wired Intel NIC, when I disabled the wired Intel NIC OS/2 then complains because it's no longer present and the way it configures things is very stepped like that.
So... my question is...
Should I reinstall ArcaOS if it needs to see network devices during the installation process to set up? And if I do, how exactly does one get GenMAC going?
I'm presuming that the T41 is in fact compatible with the 2915ABG.
--- End quote ---
I think it should be able to install the Wifi driver next to the wired NIC (and auto detect it). If not open a ticket at https://mantis.arcanoae.com (you can login with your userid and password).
Also what version of ArcaOS have you got 5.02, 5.01 or 5.00 ?
(You can tell by checking your ArcaOS DVD the file \SYS\arcanoae.flg)
When you open a ticket follow the following instructions:
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/reporting-problems-best-practices/
Possibly the database does not have the entry to detect the NIC.
Best regards,
Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---So... my question is...
Should I reinstall ArcaOS if it needs to see network devices during the installation process to set up? And if I do, how exactly does one get GenMAC going?
I'm presuming that the T41 is in fact compatible with the 2915ABG.
--- End quote ---
I have a Broadcom wired NIC, and an Intel 2915ABG (known to GENMAC as an 8086:4224) in my IBM ThinkPad T43, Installing ArcaOS (I have done both 5.0 and 5.0.2) finds, and properly installs, both drivers (multimac MMBGE for wired, and GENMAC for WiFi). GENMAC will NOT use WPA2 for WiFi, but WPA works fine. The same windows driver, in XP, will use WPA2, so that problem is something in the GENMAC base (and that is not likely to get fixed).
If the WiFi is not recognized at install time, simply install without it, then install GENMAC later. It should find the device, or, if not, it will install the base GENMAC support, so you can try other things. Be aware, that GENMAC is ancient, and very limited in what it can do, so some experimenting may be required to get it working. It is also very important to get the lines in CONFIG.SYS in the correct order. I suggest getting LCSS from HOBES, and use that to sort your CONFIG.SYS. GENMAC will warn about CONFIG.SYS sorters, LCSS does it [properly.
Devon:
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on May 30, 2018, 08:01:30 pm ---I have a Broadcom wired NIC, and an Intel 2915ABG (known to GENMAC as an 8086:4224) in my IBM ThinkPad T43, Installing ArcaOS (I have done both 5.0 and 5.0.2) finds, and properly installs, both drivers (multimac MMBGE for wired, and GENMAC for WiFi). GENMAC will NOT use WPA2 for WiFi, but WPA works fine. The same windows driver, in XP, will use WPA2, so that problem is something in the GENMAC base (and that is not likely to get fixed).
--- End quote ---
Oh that sucks... I was intending to use the laptop at work on the company wifi so, I'd definitely need WPA2. Not a problem! I'll just do the raspberry pi option for work, but in the meantime I'll try everyone's suggestions on getting wifi functional with WPA1 for non-work purposes.
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