OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
XWLan updates
Ian Manners:
Works great with a Lenovo R61.
I tend to stick with the old and tried stuff though..
DuĊĦan:
--- 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.
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I'm wondering which driver are you using? I do have Intel 5100 WiFi which doesn't work under eCS 2.1 or 2.2 beta!
I have Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBook E Series
Ragrads!
Neil Waldhauer:
I'm using GenMac update v0.2.0 network driver. These are hacks done after development of GenMac ended. Thanks to Andy Willis for working out the details of Intel 5100 and to Doug Bissett for collecting and distributing the fixes.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3439
If the URL above doesn't work, contact Doug privately for more information.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---If the URL above doesn't work, contact Doug privately for more information.
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That URL doesn't respond, this morning, for me. You can find all of my stuff at: ftp://genmac@ftp.os2voice.org/ (use the word "unsupported" - lower case, and no quotes - as a password, if it asks). Be sure to read the readme files. The GenMU* files contain drivers that have been reported to work (that doesn't mean that they will work for you). The GenMU_TEST* files have been packaged, for simple installation, but nobody has reported that they actually work, or some have reported that they do not work (some also have multiple drivers in them, with the most likely to work one picked). I have more drivers for Intel, and Realtek, but they have been replaced by existing MultiMac drivers, so they were pulled from the packages. It is easy to create a new package for a GENMAC driver, if you send me the required information (or upload it to the FTP site, as instructed in the readme). There is no guarantee that what gets packaged will work for you, or anybody else.
Note that unsupported WiFi devices have no hope of working, without patching C:\IBMCOM\macs\GENM32W.OS2. If you don't do that, correctly, GENMAC fails to load something that is required to communicate with XWLan. The instructions are in the README files, but the installer does it for you.
Klaus Abresch:
--- Quote from: Alex Taylor on November 13, 2013, 01:59:02 am ---
--- 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.
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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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Alex,
I've got the same problems with my Lenovo Thinkpad X200t. The driver loaded without any error, but didn't connect to XWLAN. But then after many tries, I switched off the Hardware WLAN switch, wait a few seconnds and turned it on again. And XWLAN started to work perfectly. Maybe this will help you to. Give it a try.
I use the GenMu 0-2-2.wpi and XWLAN312beta.zip. PCI.EXE detects My W5100 Intel as:
Bus 3 (PCI Express), Device Number 0, Device Function 0
Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
Device 4237h PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
Command 0106h (Memory Access, BusMaster, System Errors)
Status 0010h (Has Capabilities List, Fast Timing)
Revision 00h, Header Type 00h, Bus Latency Timer 00h
Self test 00h (Self test not supported)
Cache line size 64 Bytes (16 DWords)
PCI Class Network, type Other
Subsystem ID 12118086h WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Subsystem Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
Address 0 is a Memory Address (64-bit) : F2500000h
System IRQ 17, INT# A
New Capabilities List Present:
Power Management Capability, Version 1.2
Does not support low power State D1 or D2
Supports PME# signalling from mode(s) D0, D3hot, D3cold
PME# signalling is currently disabled
3.3v AUX Current required : 0 mA (Self powered)
Current Power State : D0 (Device operational, no power saving)
Message Signalled Interrupt Capability
MSI is disabled
MSI function can generate 64-bit addresses
PCI Express Capability, Version 1
Device/Port Type :
PCI Express Endpoint Device
Device Capabilities :
Unsupported Request Severity is Fatal
Device Status :
Correctable Error Detected
Unsupported Request Detected
AUX Power Detected
Link Capabilities :
Maximum Link speed : 2.5Gb/s
Maximum Link Width : x1
Link Port Number : 0
Link Control :
Common Clock Configuration In Use
Link Status :
Current Link speed : 2.5Gb/s
Current Link Width : x1
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