From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.1) with ESMTPA id 183545 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:10:46 -0400 Message-ID: <449EB57D.1010408@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:10:37 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060531 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: xwlan 2.14 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/25/06 10:15 am, Christian Langanke thus wrote : > Hi Dave, > > Dave Saville wrote: >> I upgraded to 2.14 because of the new bits for switching >> wired/wireless but it >> seems worse than before, maybe 2.10. This is with the generic PRISM >> driver - >> My Artem card is not supported by Genmac. >> > I would not do so. The best approach is to remove the obsolete > interface. So setup.cmd should execute ifconfig for the wired > interface and do nothing for the wireless interface. If then XWLAN > connects to the same network IP range via wireless, it will disable > the cabled interface (ifconfig delete). To switch back, it is best to > execute "disable IP interface" in the XWLAN menu, this will delete the > wireless interface. Then XWLAN shoul run setup.cmd and everything is > fine. >> Otherwise the NICs get addressed via DHCP. What seems to happen now >> is that, >> say going wireless -> wired. The WIFI drops and the IP gets assigned >> as above >> and then nothing. A netstat -r at this point will show only the local >> loopback, >> & lan0 and 1 as above addresses. dhcpmon shows lan1 released. >> The only way to get things back is to manually find and kill >> DHCPD.EXE and then >> run setup from x:/MPTN/bin. I have "Run setup" checked in the WIFI >> profile. >> > This is what I don't understand. setup.cmd should run. I just checked > the code: setup.cmd is executed before the XWLAN script. I suggest you > let setup.cmd write a flagfile ("type nul > C:\setupran.txt") an check > if it was really executed. > I will do the same, as I am seeing a similar issue on my T43 using GenMAC for the Intel 2915 (802.11a is a beautiful thing). I routinely have to issue my NICON.CMD to get my wired interface back up and running upon turning off the radio. For reference (abstracted): '@ ifconfig lan1 down' '@ ifconfig lan1 delete' '@ dhcpmon -t' '@ route -fh' '@ arp -f' '@ dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 0' -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users International www.novell.com/linux/truth Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------