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Asus Eee with 2.0GA (not 2.0rc5)

Started by jmbw, 2010.06.18, 02:40:40

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jmbw

I gather this was done already in eCS 2.0rc5 days, but I've been unable to reproduce it.  Does anyone know how to get eCS 2.0 GA working with the (Attansic) LAN and/or (Atheros) WLAN ports on an Asus Eee 701 netbook?  The Atheros WLAN driver (athw.sys) was installed by the eCS 2.0GA CD, which is good because when I tried to install a freshly downloaded copy of GenMac, it claimed it had no drivers for me at all (I think that's the opposite of how it's supposed to be).  But I can't make it work.  I've also tried using the l251x86.sys driver (for the 10/100 LAN port) from the writeup on Hobbes but I get the same problem that I had with the WLAN driver, which is that I get this message at boot:

GenMac Wrapper (WPA-Support) for OS/2 Warp4/Ecs.
Copyright 2001-2007 Willibald Meyer (MyWi).
Release Version 2.2 built Dec 08 2007 19:05:22.

NO VALID HARDWARE-INFO IN PROTOCOL.INI FOR  ("WRND32$ ")

Sheesh, flashing green and everything!  I'm not familiar enough with PROTOCOL.INI to understand this complaint.  The only mention of WRND32$ is in the DriverName item in the [xxxxx_nif] section for the port (where it's alongside the PCI VID/DID and the .INF and .SYS filenames for the Windows drivers).  If I have MPTS install both the LAN and WLAN drivers then I get two similar messages, so at least it's listening, sort of.

Just for variety I tried replacing both instances of GENM32W.OS2 with the one from Hobbes (whose timestamp is a few months newer) but then the system crashes during boot.  I'm guessing I'm very close ... but I'm too stupid to hand-edit the relevant files so I'm relying on MPTS.

I had no trouble running eCS 2.0silver on a desktop, but that was with a "real" driver (speaking of which, are there docs on how to write native LAN drivers?  I can't find it in the ToolKit).

Thanks,

John Wilson
D Bit

Pete

Hi John

I saw a post about this in an ecs ng... It looks like it may be of use so I reproduce the post below:-

Subject: EEEPC -  UNSUPPORTED WLAN DRIVER

Hi All.

For all of you who have an eeepc 701, have placed this on the
BugTracker. Hopefully, your mileage is better than mine. A synopsis:

SYSTEM: eeepc Series 4G Surf (really a PC701.).

INSTALLATION FROM ECS 2.0GA. Overall good.

PROBLEM: Atheros 168C:001C detected with a message: DRIVE UNSUPPORTED
! ! ! XWLan widget with a angry red cross: "Driver Not Installed".

WORKAROUND: Go to PROTOCOL.INI. On last line, change "UNSUPPORTED" to
"NONE". Reboot. No message appears. XWLan widget turns to a black
cross "searching for hotspot".

PRECAUTION: If,  this dosen't work, follow the instructions on
"How-to-install_from_USB_CD-to-Eeepc_v1.0.zip" which is found in
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/doc>.

Hope this helps.

Regards

NICK


Hope the above is of help

Pete

jmbw

Worth a shot, but no luck.  Thanks anyway!  I set OPTIONS = "NONE" on both drivers but still got the error messages (plus another that GenMac wasn't loading at all), and the red X is still there.  That .ZIP file is where I got the L2 LAN driver so I think I have the right files in the right places.  Weird...

Thanks,

John Wilson
D Bit

KMcewen

Go to second last post in article :

Genmac 2.20 and Asus EeePC 1000HA via eCS2.0 RC6a

at "news://gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user"  news group.

Files were originally tested on a 701 EeePC.

And they are currently working on an 1000HA EeePC with eCS 2.0 GA

Hope this helps. ;)

The Blue Warper

#4
On hobbes you'll find several documents about installing eCS on the EEEPC:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-browse.php?dir=/pub/os2/doc

This one, in particular, is focused about the 701 model:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/doc/ecs-2-on-asus-eee-pc-internalssd-english-rev-1-1.zip

but, as it comes to LAN, it doesn't contain any relevant information.

This pdf by Nick Lysaght
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/doc//eeepc_native_ecs_setup_r08-pdf.zip)

contains a link to a forum with the info you was searching for, I think:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5213&p=4

Go to the post by Sigurd dated 2008-05-08, 3:25:19 am, and you'll find instructions on how to proceed.

Bye!

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=5213&p=4

BigWarpGuy

Thanks for the link for the 701.  8)