OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Hardware
eCS on an eCS board based computer?
Greg Pringle:
Build one and let us know. I like the PS/2 ports. I have old KVMs that use PS/2. Can this machine use more than 512 MB or does it have the limit that many new Intel machines have.
Andy Willis:
--- Quote from: Pete on May 12, 2014, 10:36:35 pm ---Hi Andy
Sorry, I stand corrected. I guess I should have said "The last time I checked N was not working".
I wonder if I could swap an Intel 5100 BGN for the Dell 1510N (Broadcom BCM43 series nic) fitted to my Dell E5500 laptop... What driver would I need?
Regards
Pete
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Get GenMU_TEST-0-2-7.wpi from ftp://genmac <AT> ftp.os2voice.org and when prompted for password use unsupported. It should have the Intel 5100 driver. It works here, I did run into a problem similar to the one reported where the wireless never showed any available APs with a clean install on the same hardware. I would have to go through a series of disabling and enabling before I could get it to see the APs but I had enough other problems with the install that I swapped HDDs back around and have not looked into it further.
Pete:
Hi Andy
Well, I removed the Dell 1510N wireless nic from my Dell E5500 laptop and installed an Intel 5100abgn wireless nic.
Checked it worked fine with Windows7, shrank the Windows7 volume, installed eCS2.2 beta2, installed genmac and the Intel 5100 driver from GenMU_TEST-0-2-7.wpi
I now have a Dell E5500 with wireless connectivity - but, if speed 54Mbps is anything to go by, it is not using N when booted from eCS. Maybe I need to do some sort of tweaking somewhere?
Regards
Pete
Andy Willis:
--- Quote from: Pete on May 30, 2014, 03:47:52 am ---I now have a Dell E5500 with wireless connectivity - but, if speed 54Mbps is anything to go by, it is not using N when booted from eCS. Maybe I need to do some sort of tweaking somewhere?
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54 certainly suggests you are only connecting at G and not N. I am not sure what to tweak though, the files included in the package are the ones that connect with N for me (currently showing 72). I am fairly sure I had the speeds with the original wpa_suplicant but I do currently have the latest build from Paul Smedley:
http://os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php?page=wpa-supplicant
I am now also running xwlan 3.12 but had the speeds with the earlier one too. It does connect faster under Windows? The router I have at home only has 144, which it starts at but always drops below that. At work I have a router can connect at 300.
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