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New xwlan beta - please test and give feedback

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Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: Andi B. on October 03, 2018, 07:52:21 am ---
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on October 03, 2018, 03:01:46 am ---There is an undocumented dependency on PMPRINTF.

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Even with beta5? My own checks with pmdll assured me that I've fixed that. But YMMV
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I downloaded again, from the link above, and installed the widget to a new ArcaOS 5.0.3.1 install. The supplicant did not work. Starting the supplicant manually complained that it couldn't find PMPRINTF.DLL, until I added PMPRINTF.DLL to LIBPATH. Then it worked.

It seems that the only way to test it, is to remove PMPRINTF.DLL, completely. It also seems that some sort of check needs to be made, to notify the user that something isn't right. The only indications that I got, was the connection sound kept on repeating, forever, and the supplicant window didn't open.

BTW, I am testing with my IBM ThinkPad T43, with an Intel 2915abg adapter.

Holger Schuett:
Hi Andi, hi Doug
I am quite sure that I do not have PMPRINTF.DLL in my Libpath nor in any relevant directory, but I will check again. I do remember that I tested another Beta-Version of xwlan and PMPRINTF.DLL was needed.
I am testing on an X61with 4965 a/g/n adapter

Holger Schuett:
Hi Andi, hi Doug,
Doug is right concerning PMPRINTF.dll. It was in OS2/dll in my case. Moving it I could neither use xwlan nor the wpa_supplicant by command line

Andi B.:
Strange. I reopened the ticket #49. Will look at it when I'm back. Thx for testing.

Andi B.:
I've bundled together an intermediate version of wpa_supplicant with beta5 unfortunately. Was a stupid error in the script which packs all together and I didn't have the time for much testing before my travel. So I didn't find it by myself :-(.

I've fixed this and packed beta6. Beside small help file updates (history) it's the same as beta5 except the current wpa_supplicant. Hope the pmprintf.dll dependency is fixed finally.


--- Quote ---It also seems that some sort of check needs to be made, to notify the user that something isn't right.
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One of the first things I check with every new version is if the properties dialog shows the version for dhclient and wpa_supplicant. A non working wpa_supplicant would be shown in read color. Of course if you compare usability of the whole wlan/lan switching with modern devices/OSes we are years behind. I fear we can never catch up with other systems anymore. Best we can try is to keep it working and ironing out the biggest bugs.

It's also a good idea to start with the standalone application (wlanstat) first instead of the xcenter widget. And read the readme.txt step by step to narrow down problems (current version - http://trac.netlabs.org/xwlan/browser/trunk/src/ship/readme.txt). Given that the user base with supported wlan devices is very small now and even shrinking I wouldn't bet on much improvement any more.

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