OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
Intel 2915ABG on a T41 with OS/2 (questions)
Dave Yeo:
WPA2 seems to work fine on my T42, using Intel 2915ABG (known to GENMAC as an 8086:4220). The xcenter widget says I'm using WPA2-PSK.
All I did was create a profile which I named home and fill out the the regular stuff and under the Security tab picked out the "Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2-PSK" and entered the preshared key and it just worked.
I did have to manually pick out my NIC driver and still don't have the wired nic working as I haven't had need for it.
According to PCI.exe it's a
Device 4220h PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection and seems to work as fast as my LTE Internet connection allows or close enough.
Edit, My Internet hub says it is using WPA2(AES)-PSK which was the default.
Devon:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on May 31, 2018, 02:40:56 am ---WPA2 seems to work fine on my T42, using Intel 2915ABG (known to GENMAC as an 8086:4220). The xcenter widget says I'm using WPA2-PSK.
All I did was create a profile which I named home and fill out the the regular stuff and under the Security tab picked out the "Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA2-PSK" and entered the preshared key and it just worked.
I did have to manually pick out my NIC driver and still don't have the wired nic working as I haven't had need for it.
According to PCI.exe it's a
Device 4220h PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection and seems to work as fast as my LTE Internet connection allows or close enough.
Edit, My Internet hub says it is using WPA2(AES)-PSK which was the default.
--- End quote ---
*Gasp* well that's a relief! I'll just disable physical ethernet in the BIOS so that there's only one NIC connection (The wireless adapter). I'm thinking I'll just reinstall OS/2 on a different hard disk to test things out.
Although now WPA3 was just announced so... I suspect WPA2 stuff will (eventually) be retired.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---WPA2 seems to work fine on my T42, using Intel 2915ABG (known to GENMAC as an 8086:4220).
--- End quote ---
It is probably one of the "edge" conditions that GENMAC runs into, sometimes. It may depend, exactly, how everything fits into the memory space that GENMAC uses. It is known, that some windows drivers will overwrite part of the GENMAC configuration area. Depending, exactly, what gets overwritten, something may, or may not, work. The only way to find out, for sure, is to try it.
--- Quote ---*Gasp* well that's a relief! I'll just disable physical ethernet in the BIOS so that there's only one NIC connection (The wireless adapter).
--- End quote ---
Disabling the ethernet may, or may not, help (probably not, if you have the problem). Sometimes, changing some settings for the windows driver will reduce the memory footprint, but that can cause, as well as work around, problems. Personally, I don't care if WPA2 works, or not, so I haven't tried to fix the problem.
If you have the problem, and can't get it to work, one option is to use a device that does WiFi, when connected to the wired NIC. I use a D-LINK DIR-506L, which works pretty well, and it is useful for other things. It is also faster than a 2915ABG, but it is a few years old now, so you may need to find a newer device that does what it does. There are a number of them available, at pretty reasonable cost.
Andi B.:
I still do not see which card you have exactly. Here's the list of cards I've tested https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,1202.msg12286.html#msg12286
IIRC the R52/Intel 2915 8086:4224 does have problems with WPA2 (not WPA).
Another note - I recently discovered that the Atheros 168C:1014 in my T60 does not work out of the box with ArcaOS. I reinstalled the older Genmac2.0 instead 2.2 which is shipped with AcraOS and now it works.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---Another note - I recently discovered that the Atheros 168C:1014 in my T60 does not work out of the box with ArcaOS. I reinstalled the older Genmac2.0 instead 2.2 which is shipped with AcraOS and now it works.
--- End quote ---
From what I do know, the GENMAC 2.0, and 2.2 base code is identical. The only difference is the supported devices that are included. Some were left out of 2.2 because of licensing concerns, and a few others were updated. I don't know, for sure, what ArcaOS did, but I suspect that no changes were made. Most of it should be replaced by Multimac, when they get it done. Currently, I think that all wired NICs, that were in GENMAC, have Multimac (or other) support. GENMAC is only needed for WiFi, and that support is very limited. I haven't seen any indication of which WiFi devices will be supported by Multimac, so it is possible that some older ones might still need to use GENMAC.
Some options exist at ftp://genmac@ftp.os2voice.org/ (use the word "unsupported", no quotes, and lower case, if it asks for a password), along with some explanation of what is done to add unsupported devices. READ the instructions carefully, if you try changing what is there.
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