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eCS 2.2 clone for X200t and X230t - Questions and observations
Sigurd Fastenrath:
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on August 21, 2013, 06:47:14 am ---Hi Sigurd.
1. I found that I needed to turn off all power control for the wireless NIC, in windows, on my T43, or it would run for a while, then quit. It seems that what windows sets, gets remembered in eCS. I found a setting in the NIC settings to do that so it was set separately from the windows system power controls. I don't have access to the T43 any more (my brother has it). It also has the problem where it would not work with WPA2, but did work with WPA (WPA2 worked in winXP, of course). I think there is a problem in the GENMAC interface between the windows driver, and XWLAN, which means that it will not get fixed. WPA seems to be reasonably secure. Hopefully, Multimac, for wireless devices, will sho up sooner, rather than later.
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Hi Doug,
1. One more observation here: Late at night Yesterday I did play around with XWLAN just to see what happen -> one was to try
->right Mouse Button click on XWLAN widget -> Public Hotspot -> connect to hotspot
even if I do not have a hot spot around. For a second in the eCenter "DHCPSTRT.COM" was visible and the XWLAN widget icon changed to the one with the small TCPIP icon in it, saying "Public Hotspot - 16%; IP Interface is being configured: lan1"
and the "TCPIP Interface" is not greyed out anymore.
That leads me to assume, that using my "Profile 'Zu Hause' " does not start the DHCP process ?!
Might this information be of help as I do not have much clue about this?
Andi B.:
--- Quote ---That leads me to assume, that using my "Profile 'Zu Hause' " does not start the DHCP process ?!
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dhcstrt.cmd is only called when the new interface is set for 'TCPIP automatic configuration' in XWLAN. Every time when you switch between profiles or disable/enable wireless and the new interface is set for automatic config, dhcmon /t is called to stop dhcpcd.exe (DHCP daemon). XWLAN even tries to kills the deamon if it refuses to stop with dhcmon /t. Afterwards XWLAN start it again with dhcstrt.cmd. At least this is the case with the current XWLAN code.
Doug Bissett:
Hi Sigurd.
1. I think that Andi has it right (or, very close to right). XWLAN triggers DHCP activity after it gets connected. Think of it as plugging in the cable on a wired NIC. Nothing can happen, until the cable is connected. The same is true of wireless. Nothing happens until it is connected. XWLAN is the tool that is used to "plug in the cable", then it starts the configuration for TCPIP. If it cannot get connected, it will not attempt to start the DHCP configuration tool.
The power setup seems to be stored in the device (at least in Intel devices). If you do not turn off all power control to the device (only possible in windows, AFAIK, and it is in the device setup, not the system power controls), it remembers that it is supposed to reduce power consumption after a while. The first power reduction thing that seems to happen, is to turn off the radio, which effectively disconnects the cable (possibly only in one direction). It seems that GENMAC doesn't (or doesn't know how to) reset the timer, so the radio gets turned off at some random point, and it will stay off, until something turns it back on (usually reboot).
A "public" hotspot usually has no security (known as an "Open access point"), so XWLAN doesn't really need to do anything special to connect (no password, and no encryption negotiation), so it is more likely to succeed.
You may also want to try an updated SUPPLICANT (the part of XWLAN that actually does the connection). The last one that I tried is http://smedley.id.au/wpa_supplicant-2.0-devel-os2-2012-02-25.zip. You can also use the XWLAN menu to make the supplicant visible, so you can see what it has to say, when it attempts to connect. From memory (I haven't got XWLAN installed, at the moment), RMB on the widget, and select Supplicant (or whatever it is - third from the bottom???), and click Visible. A window will open. The contents usually make a bit of sense, and may indicate what the problem is.
Sigurd Fastenrath:
Hi Doug,
thanks - I will try it during the weekend (but Saturday I am off). Wim Brul is so kind to help out with Stylus and Touch support for the X230T right now - we concentrate on this for now.
EDIT: Stylus is already up and running !!!! Thanks to Wim Bruls tremendous work!!!
Sigurd Fastenrath:
Hi,
some news here:
Sound on the X230T: as I played around a while with the X230T I discovered something really strange:
-> The reason for the problems seem to me to be that there a two soundcards or interfaces, one with the Intel "Display" (HDMI or Displayport I guess) and one with the Realtek
-> I still have got repeating loops and crashing sound with WPS applications (like System sound and PM123 and and and) - if I have sound at all
-> but what is working mostly is the sound with Youtube videos inside Firefox!
-> in addition: when I play m3u Internet radio stream (starting in Firefox, opening than in PM123) it works better than before (but still repeating - but "only" for 2 or three times) BUT: as soon as I close Firefox the sound repeats in PM123 like before and is totally unusable (partly crash) -> still not really usable, but a small step
Is there a logical reason for this? May this help to find the problem?
Can someone confirm this ?
-> WLAN with the X200T (Intel 4965 and patched BIOS) : Well, this is working very well now! The problem here did seat right in front of the screen ;) . It did not connect to the Router at home as I did allways write the wrong WLAN name there, once I find out the right one (FRITZ!Box WLAN 3170) (-> I had to take care of upper and lower caracters and the blanks!! Allways missed the blank between WLAN and 3170!) it works with WPA key. It works with WPA2 key as well but has some frequently drops out). At my office the WPA2 key works without any issues :-)
So with the X200T I do have LAN, WLAN and UMTS/WWAN running right now, so the written on "ULTRA CONNECT" does fit with eCS 2.2 now :-)
Thanks,
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