OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
Wireless
Martin Iturbide:
Eirik
I think this ones are on .zip files.
http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wtech/proset-ws/sb/CS-034038.htm
I'm checking - http://downloadmirror.intel.com/22117/eng/Wireless_15.3.1_Dx32.zip
I'm not sure if what you are looking is NETwLx32.sys or NETwxn00.sys.
If by any chance you make "NETwxn00.sys" work, I think that the same one for my "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205". I'm crossing my fingers.
eirik:
Thanks Martin.
I will have a go at this late tonight/tomorrow. The first challenge is to convert the inf or cat files (I do not remember which one at the moment) to reg files. Anyone remember where instructions for this conversion can be found? Once I am done, I will post a response here on how things work, and if successful, what I did.
May the force be with me / Eirik
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: Eirik Romstad on March 18, 2013, 01:13:05 pm ---Thanks Martin.
I will have a go at this late tonight/tomorrow. The first challenge is to convert the inf or cat files (I do not remember which one at the moment) to reg files. Anyone remember where instructions for this conversion can be found? Once I am done, I will post a response here on how things work, and if successful, what I did.
May the force be with me / Eirik
--- End quote ---
Don't even bother trying to convert INF files to REG files. If you do anything with an INF file, just change PROTOCOL.INI and \IBMCOM\macs\GENM32W.OS2 (it is the only one that is used), to point to the INF file, instead of the REG file. However, you will probably find that the INF files don't contain anything except the templates to create the registry entries. As such, they won't be used. The only good part about that is, that everything will default, which sometimes works okay. CAT files are never used by GENMAC. I suggest just using the REG files that you already have, since they were extracted from somebodies registry, after the device was configured.
eirik:
Dear all, no success with the new win files from the link Martin provided. Both sys files in the download halted the boot process and stopped the jfs disks (so I had to chkdsk /f them). System recovered fine - no problem. I still refuse to give up. Anyone with older WinXp or WinVista driver files for the Intel Centrino 6300 a/g/n wireless card. Provide a link or email me (eirrom at gmail dot com), and I will test the files.
Eirik
Doug Bissett:
There are a number of different files in the GENMAC, GENMU, and GENMU_TEST packages. I don't know what you have tried (other than the ones packaged for your specific device). Some of the others might be compatible. As I said, Intel seems to be pretty consistent with the hardware, so it may be worth trying any Intel driver, for a similar device. You can, easily, unpack the WPI files using WPIView: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/vxapps/wpiview/wpiview110.wpi. You can also try mixing, and matching, INF and REG files, but that is not likely to make a difference until you actually get it to load the driver successfully. An empty REG, or INF, file will cause the driver to use all of the defaults. That will usually work (if it will work at all), but may not be an ideal setup.
You should put a file named AltF2on.$$$ in the root of your boot drive. That will effectively do an Alt-F2 at the boot blob, always, so you can see where it actually stops. From your description, I would guess that it stops at NETBIND.EXE, but it could be when XWLAN gets started, which is a different problem. If it is actually when XWLAN gets started, just remove the XWLAN widget from the eCenter bar, or remove XWLAN from the startup folder, so it doesn't start. Then, you can do more investigation to see which of the many problems you have. To get booted, when it hangs, just use an alternate boot method, and REM the GENM32W.OS2 line in CONFIG.SYS, temporarily.
FWIW, a hard hang is usually caused by some sort of IRQ problem, but it could be something else.
Have fun...
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