Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:18:52 -0500 From: madodel Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: GenPrism and Cisco 350 wireless drivers ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Mark Dodel There hasn't been any announcements since Christmas so I thought I'd throw one out so people know the list is still alive. If anyone has anything to announce they need to send it to submitDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice.org (Remove the DESPAM before sending). Now is a great time to make any announcements. :-) Please keep announcements related to OS/2-eComStation and include a brief description and appropriate links. All sender emails are obfuscated, but if you really don't want your email address listed just ask but we need a valid name so we know who is sending the post. Since people are still frequently looking for the old beta drivers for the few working wireless 802.11b PCMCIA cards, I have uploaded what I have to the VOICE FTP server. These are not the drivers released by IBM on Software Choice for the IBM High Rate PCMCIA card and the IBM Prism based Mini-PCI cards in Thinkpads. You must have an eComStation license to access those drivers or access to the soon to be closed IBM Software Choice site. These are drivers which were crafted a few years ago but never made it out of Beta stage and were never released. The Cisco 340/350 PCMCIA card driver can be downloaded at ftp://os2voice.org/CiscoPCM.0.91.A502.zip. This works well with both the Csico 340 and Cisco 350 PCMCIA cards that I have used it with. According to the readme no encryption was working with this release. You can use the included wifistat.exe or Christian Langanke's excellent WLAN Monitor (Available as an XCenter Widget and standalone program, Wireless LAN hardware & driver req. English, German and Swedish NLS. Homepage: http://wlan.netlabs.org) The GenPrism driver can be downloaded at ftp://os2voice.org/genprism.2.0rc4.zip This driver should work with many Prism chipset based PCMCIA cards like the Lucent Gold PCMCIA card or so I was told as I have never had one to test it with. This is just the driver files since it was a beta update for testing purposes. To configure the connection you need either the wifistat.exe that comes with one of the released versions or the Cisco350 version also on the VOICE FTP server ftp://os2voice.org/CiscoPCM.0.91.A502.zip or the WLAN utility available from Netlabs - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan300.zip To my knowledge both of these were the last betas released by the developer who has since disappeared so there is no support available. If you have a newer Cardbus or Mini-PCI wireless card you should try Willibald Meyer's GenMac 2.00 driver http://genmac.netlabs.org/ . There is an article I wrote on my experience with the 1.7 release of GenMac at http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0606H/feature_4.html For more information on wireless networking under eComStation and OS/2 check out the following forums: OS2Wireless mailing list: http://mail.2rosenthals.com:8100/Lists/os2-wireless_users/List.html or to subscribe (new addresses), E-mail to: os2-wireless_users-onDESPAM at DESPAM2rosenthals.com and reply to the confirmation email. WLAN support mailing list: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.wlan.general or to subscribe, e-mail: wlan-user-subscribeDESPAM at DESPAMnetlabs.org GenMac User mailing list: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user or to subscribe, e-mail: genmac-user-subscribeDESPAM at DESPAMnetlabs.org Mark -- Warpstock 2007 - Where? http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news your.email.address at here end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org or go to http://www.os2voice.org/fSubNews.html . Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org