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Date:  Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:52:34 +0100 (MEZ)
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From:  "Jens Glathe" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "Ray Hyder" <ray@hyder.org>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] NetGear MA311

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:51:46 -0400, Ray Hyder wrote:

Hi Ray!

>Jen, thanks for the updated driver!   But it didn't help... :-(      

Ok, then you are a beta tester ;)

>I can transfer a 10 meg file from system 2 to system 1 and sometimes it 
>works and sometimes it doesn't.   When it does work I get about a 300 
>KBPS rate.  When it doesn't work all activity halts and nothing will 
>bring back the link except a shut down and reboot.  If I have wifistat 
>running at the time or if I start wifistat after I lose the link then 
>the whole system freezes and only the reset button or the BRS will 
>work.  An interesting side effect  is that I actually have to reboot 

Are both machines running OS/2? 

>twice after a wifistat boot  because a get a trap D in  sysio2k during 
>the first  reboot.  Yes, I have triple checked for irq conflicts.  Both 

??? Never heard of that. It sounds strange, though - like some hardware not being reinitialized at boot. Has 
somebody else seen this behaviour?

>the hardware manager and sysinfo report that the MA311 is all alone on 
>irq 10.

What does the BIOS say? Or PCI? Not every driver (or every hardware, for that matter) reports to Ressource 
Manager.

>The MA311 appears to have  the weaker transmitter but why would it not 
>recover, if it lost the link,  and at least abort the transfer with an 
>error instead of just hanging?   The sio2k trap D on reboot is a clue I 
>think.  Any ideas?  - ray

Can you send me a LANTRAN.LOG after the link got lost? The driver can create debug messages if you 
have the IBMPRISM.MSG file in \IBMCOM and if you set DEBUG_LEVEL=0xFFDF in PROTOCOL.INI.

with best regards

Jens.

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