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GenMac and T500 w/ AtheOS network adapter

Started by Robert Deed, 2010.09.05, 08:49:02

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DougB

QuoteRC=2.   scanloop does nothing but error out

Where do you see this?

QuoteThe linux driver have something in common with the windows driver, they are both official atheos drivers and let me know what flags need to be set by the driver in order to even make my hardware function.  It is clear (I think) that the windows drivers under genmac are not doing this. 

Nothing is clear. You do have a better chance of getting it to work with the driver, and INF files copied from the windows that is on your machine, but that is really only true if you have Win2K, or WinXP. Anything later, and the drivers are probably too new for GENMAC to be able to use them.

If the driver loads (and you say that it does), GENMAC is probably working. Playing with the "flags", as you call them, is not likely to accomplish much, since a lot of them are totally ignored. There could be a problem with the way that XWLAN is interpreting some of the driver information, but I suspect that it is more likely that your setup in XWLAN has something wrong.

To pursue this further, we need to know what is in the WRND32.LOG file, and what is in LANTRAN.LOG. One, or both, of them might offer a clue.

Robert Deed

#16
RC=2 is from scanloop.cmd

The issue I see is in the comments for the particular chipset which I am using, if a certain flag isn't set it will fail to scan for access points.  I've removed xwlan and reinstalled and doesn't work.  

The drivers I am using are the W2k/WinXP 32bit ones.  They were the oldest ones which supported this card.  I have tried every version up to the newest XP driver, the newest release trap when PMSHELL loads.  Assuming genmac is passing the flags correctly it should be loading.  And as I said, The GENMAC stuff is all in green except the white line which says Unsupported Device!!! [168c:100c]

Lantran.log shows everything being ok, and shows the device's mac as well.  It sends with device 0 trying to bind to tcpip 0.    I would cut and paste it but I have no way to save anything from my OS/2 drive.  Need to make a small fat partition to send stuff back to windows :)

DougB

I think you need to ask about this in the XWLAN news group. The server is:
news.gmane.org
Subscribe to gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general.

QuoteUnsupported Device!!! [168c:100c]
simply means that it is not one of GENMAC's internally supported devices, and it is being supported by using the "UNSUPPORTED" parameter. It is somewhat misleading, but what it is telling you, is that the driver has loaded successfully, and is ready to use. Your problem seems to be something in XWLAN, not GENMAC.

Robert Deed

#18
However genmac cannot scan, taking xwlan completely out of the equation.  Something is defiantly not right in the driver, however I've completely run out of ideas as to what it could be.  I've parsed the default .inf and made sure all parameters are set which the 6013 (lenovo version of the card) requires.  Still don't have a working device.  There are close to 15 ap's in the area which it should be finding.. but it doesn't find anything.  scan.exe shows nothing at all, and scanloop says an error occurred while scanning.

Well atleast the new intel drivers work for my wired connection, but I really would love to get my wifi working.