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eirik:
Version 3.12 beta of XWLan has just been posted at by Netlabs on http://svn.netlabs.org/xwlan.  The new version has several improvements and improved functionality.  Excellent job by the team behind (Christian Langanke, Adriand Gschwend, Steven Levine, and Andreas Buchinger).  Thanks guys :-)

When installing the widget version (highly recommended) please note the following:

* If you run previous widget versions of XWLan, close eCenter before installing (or it will not install).
* IIf this is the first time you install a widget version of XWLan, you need to add the widget (right mouse button all the way to the right on eCenter, and add widget from list.Unfortunately, this did not help making wireless work on my Thinkpad T410 (see the GenMac discussion forum - direct link: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3482), as my problem appears to reside in the GenMac driver).  But it is great to see good work done towards making wireless available on modern hardware. Hopefully, in not to distant a future, this will be resolved through the Multimac project http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac as the list of drivers expand (where many, my self included, already benefit from the E1000E driver for wired access).

Keep up the good work, and thanks again!
Eirik

Neil Waldhauer:
I installed the beta on my Thinkpad W500 with Intel 5100 WiFi. The new software seems to work as well as the old, plus the enhancements to the properties screens shows the versions of my installed software. The new DHCP client gets an address with no problems.

I can connect on either 802.11g and 802.11n with WPA2 security.

Andi B.:
Neil, thank you for feedback.

Andi B.:
Eirik - as you said if the problem is genmac does not support your hardware then xwlan can nothing do about that. From your posts at the newsgroup gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user I'm not sure if you ever tried without security (WPA) and if you ever solved your 'no valid MAC address' issue. Moreover did you test the executables in the genmac directory? f.i. 'link -verbose' 'scan verbose' At least a 'type wrnd32$' should give some info about what the driver sees.

And if these things all are working then you should try 'dimtest' from the \xwlan directory.

Please post your findings on the genmac newsgroup as this is probably the best place for you to get some help.

Alex Taylor:

--- Quote from: Neil Waldhauer on November 12, 2013, 04:24:07 pm ---I installed the beta on my Thinkpad W500 with Intel 5100 WiFi. The new software seems to work as well as the old, plus the enhancements to the properties screens shows the versions of my installed software. The new DHCP client gets an address with no problems.

I can connect on either 802.11g and 802.11n with WPA2 security.

--- End quote ---

Neil, you're another of those lucky ones who managed to get 5100 WiFi on the W500 working, right?

I have a W500 with Intel 5100 and, as you may have seen from my despairing posts in various fora, I just cannot get it to work in OS/2 (using GenMAC with latest GenMU and latest wpa-supplicant+xwlan beta). The driver loads without complaint, the logs all look OK, but it just will not see any networks. (And it's not just xwlan, GenMAC's own scan.exe sees nothing either.)

Do you have any insights as to what the secret is?

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