From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:51 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1307 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 14 June 2006 Number 1307 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 T30/T40 ? : Voytek Eymont" 2 Re: T30/T40 ? : Peter Moylan 3 Re: T30/T40 ? : madodel 4 Re: T30/T40 ? : Robert Traynor (BobT)" 5 Re: T30/T40 ? : Ed Durrant 6 Re: T30/T40 ? : madodel **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:38:53 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: T30/T40 ? does OS/2 run on Thinpad T30 or T40 ? is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:38:13 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: T30/T40 ? Voytek Eymont wrote: > is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? For WiFi the news seems to be that some 802.11b cards are supported but that 802.11g (the faster version) support is hard to find. I think there might be just one card in the latter category with an OS/2 driver, but I've forgotten what it is. What I found in my own searching is that the supported 802.11b cards are almost impossible to get, because they are considered "obsolete". So what I did myself was follow the advice of Daniela Engert, in a VOICE article some time last year, and buy a D-Link DWL-G730AP Pocket Access Point. I can't remember whether this was the precise device recommended by Dani; the important thing was that it was a Pocket Access Point. This is a gadget that can be switch-configured as either a wireless client or as a wireless hub, plus one option that I've forgotten because I never use it. (I only use the "client" switch position.) This is, in a sense, overkill, and it costs more than all those cards that are Windows-only, but it has the advantage that it doesn't care what operating system you use. It connects to an ethernet port - you probably have one of those already - so that as far as OS/2 is concerned it's just an ethernet connection, and the only driver you need is for your ethernet card. Now that also means that OS/2 doesn't know whether you have a "b" or "g" version of wireless, so you can run at the higher "g" speed. Configuration is, as is usual these days for network devices via a web browser to the fixed address 192.168.1.30 (if I remember correctly). Summary: expensive but very fast and trouble-free. (And very very good for travelling. It is small, and comes with a good-quality leather or vinyl pouch that holds the device plus its cords and power supply. It can also be powered from a free USB port.) I don't regret the money I paid for it because it saved me enormous amounts of trouble trying to find compatible devices. -- Peter Moylan peter at ozebelg dot org peter.moylan at optusnet dot com dot au http://www.pmoylan dot org Please note the changed e-mail and web addresses. The domain eepjm.newcastle.edu.au no longer exists, and I can no longer reliably receive mail at my newcastle.edu.au addresses. The optusnet address still has about 2 months of life left. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:54:47 -0400 From: madodel Subject: Re: T30/T40 ? Voytek Eymont wrote: > does OS/2 run on Thinpad T30 or T40 ? > T30 Review: http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0103H/vnewsf4.htm T40 Review: http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0703H/vnewsf3.htm > is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? It depends on what you need. If you mean PCMCIA, there are drivers for the IBM High Rate wireless (802.11b, driver available on Software Choice or with eCS), Cisco 340/350 (Again 802.11b, A beta driver available if you ask) and a Generic Prism driver for Lucent Prism chipset based cards (802.11b, again a beta that is available for the asking). There is a Mini-PCI driver for the Prism based 802.11b card built-in to some T40s available through Software Choice or eCS. There is the GenMac driver which supports several Mini-PCI chipsets and a few PCCard and PCI cards ( I did a review of GenMac in the latest VOICE Newsletter ( http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_4.html ). genPrism has support for several 802.11g options. There is a list in the article of what is currently supported, though they are looking to add more. The developer is also working on adding WPA encryption support for GenMac. If you need that then this is one of only two solutions. The final option and the only one that currently has WPA support is a wireless bridge which is a platform independent. Daniela Engert did a review of an AsusWL330g a year ago http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0305H/vnewsf4.htm Mark -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th, http://www.warpstock dot org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock dot net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:09:19 +1000 From: "Robert Traynor (BobT)" Subject: Re: T30/T40 ? Speaking specifically of my own ThinkPad T30 wireless, mine works in windowsXP but not in eCS 1.2r because the wireless chip in my particular T30 is not recognised. IBM had TWO chip types in the T30. SOME T30 ThinkPads that have the OTHER wireless chip do work in os2/eCS. I cannot recall which is which, so I suggest you do some searching. I recall a good write up of the T30 where wireless was working, in a Voice newsletter. A google search should get it for you. HTH, Robert Traynor (BobT). 14 June 2006 11:08 On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:38:53 +1000 (EST), Voytek Eymont wrote: > does OS/2 run on Thinpad T30 or T40 ? > > is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? > > > -- > Voytek ,-._|\ Robert Traynor (BobT) / Oz \ email rtraynor at removeme.optusnet dot com dot au \_,--.x/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:33:06 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: T30/T40 ? Voytek Eymont wrote: > does OS/2 run on Thinpad T30 or T40 ? > > is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? > > You need to specify the exact T40 model (4 digit model number if possible). The reason for this is that some models use a mini-PCI card with one chipset, others use the Centrino chipset. There ARE definately drivers for *SOME* 802.11b PCMCIA cards, but these are of course only 11Mb/s cards and may have compatibility problems with some WiFi hotspots. There is a development called GenMac Wrapper, not to be confused with the GenMAC project, these are two separate projects. I have a Thinkpad T42 that uses the Intel Centrino 2200BG Wireless chipset and I have this operational. Others have had problems and some continue to have problems, hence the reason to get the exact model number. WPA encoding is not yet support, but is planned. WEP en and de-coding is working. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:58:43 -0400 From: madodel Subject: Re: T30/T40 ? madodel wrote: > Voytek Eymont wrote: >> does OS/2 run on Thinpad T30 or T40 ? >> > > T30 Review: http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0103H/vnewsf4.htm > T40 Review: http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0703H/vnewsf3.htm > >> is there any OS/2 WiFi device ? > > It depends on what you need. > > If you mean PCMCIA, there are drivers for the IBM High Rate wireless > (802.11b, driver available on Software Choice or with eCS), Cisco > 340/350 (Again 802.11b, A beta driver available if you ask) and a > Generic Prism driver for Lucent Prism chipset based cards (802.11b, > again a beta that is available for the asking). > > There is a Mini-PCI driver for the Prism based 802.11b card built-in to > some T40s available through Software Choice or eCS. There is the GenMac > driver which supports several Mini-PCI chipsets and a few PCCard and PCI > cards ( I did a review of GenMac in the latest VOICE Newsletter ( > http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_4.html ). > genPrism has support for several 802.11g options. There is a list in Correction: Not genPrism, that should be GenMac. Mark > the article of what is currently supported, though they are looking to > add more. The developer is also working on adding WPA encryption > support for GenMac. If you need that then this is one of only two > solutions. > > The final option and the only one that currently has WPA support is a > wireless bridge which is a platform independent. Daniela Engert did a > review of an AsusWL330g a year ago > http://www.os2voice dot org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0305H/vnewsf4.htm > > Mark > > > -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th, http://www.warpstock dot org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock dot net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------