Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #1956

From:	"madodel" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless]Card Suggestions
Date:	Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:38:08 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Miles wrote: I am trying to figure out what wireless network card to buy for my OS/2 machines but it's not really clear which ones are going to work well. Is there a short list of good cards for OS/2? I'm also worried about getting drivers for these cards. I'm assuming that I can't go out and buy a new card and will need to get something off of ebay. Maybe I'm wrong about that though. What kind of system? You have to be specific as to hardware(desktop, laptop, laptop with builtin wireless) and whether you are running eCS-MCP or older on it since at least two of the drivers are only available with an eCS license or SWC subscription. Also what kind of wireless connection do yourequire? The older 802.11b is 1mbps but you can still obtain PCMCIA cards on eBay that will work. For now the only solutions for the newer 802.11g are either built-in mini-PCI cards for laptops or a wireless bridge. See below. I recently posted the following to the eCS-Technical mailing list: "If its a laptop with built-in wireless you may be in luck as the recent release of a GenMac driver (available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/genmac though that is the original 1.0 version. A 1.7 version is supposed to be released soon that works better for a number of people). You might also want to get the Wireless LAN Monitor which works with GenMac or some of the older wireless drivers for ease of setup and configuration - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan This works as either standalone or as an Xcenter/eCenter widget. If its a laptop without built-in wireless but PCMCIA support you can find a limited number of 802.11b cards that have drivers (Ones I am aware of that can still be found if you look hard enough are the IBM High Rate PCMCIA (Requires either a Software Choice subscription or eCS license), The Cisco 340 or 350 card and the Lucent cards (these last two never left beta testing status but can be obtained if you ask). 802.11b cards will work with 802.11g networks just at the slower 11mbps speed and depending on the router may slow all the traffic through that router to the slower speed. If you mean a desktop that would require a PCI wireless card, there is at least one that worked with one of the drivers but I don't recall what brand and it was also 802.11b. I do know we gave one away at Warpstock a couple years ago. Another solution is a wireless bridge. These are often sold as video game wireless adapters but they just plug into an existing ethernet port and can then establish a connection with a wireless network. These are OS agnostic and can be configured using a web browser. For an example of one see Daniela Engert's article in VOICE - http://www.os2voice.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.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.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

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