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From: "Carl Gehr" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] IBM High Rate Wireless LAN -128]
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 01:29:52 -0500 (EST)
To: "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Thanks, Frank.  I will include your modifications and have the commands
tested.  I'll post the results as soon as I see what happens.

Carl

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 19:18:32 +0100 (CET), Frank Vos wrote:

>Hello Carl,
>On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 03:16:37 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>>I thought I had just copied a set of statements from an earlier post.
>>I have no idea why/what these are really doing.  [Most of this is
>>'black-art' to me, but I understand that the DHCP is needed for the
>>active NIC and that is the reason for the exercise.]
>>
>>Unfortunately, I am now away from the Wireless AP, but I will try to
>>have the change [replace mptstart with dhcpstrt] tested by someone who
>>is there and see what happens.
>If the network is working with DHCP, than you basically need something like
>the following rexxfile:
>
>/* turn on the radio */
>/* This command activates the 802.11b interface
>     original batch file by Neil Waldhauer
>     The wireless NIC should be inserted in the PC Card slot  */
>
>say "Activating the wireless network card"
>' ifconfig lan0 down'
>' ifconfig lan0 delete'
>'dhcpmon -t'
>'route -fh'
>'arp -f'
>'dhcpstrt -i lan1 -d 10'
>say "Wireless networking enabled"
>
>
>Groetjes, / Kind regards,
>
>Frank Vos
>Amstelveen
>The Netherlands

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