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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:56:57 est5edt
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Subject: OS/2 Wireless Users List: MPTS and wireless NIC

It's pretty easyto have duplicate config.sys and procol.ini  to swap between2 NICS - I 
do it twice per day everyday - wireless to wired.


On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:06:49 est5edt, madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:

>In <200304121457.h3CEvmjM057418@mail.cruzio.com>, on 04/12/03 at 10:55 AM,
>   "Neil Waldhauer" <neil@blondeguy.com> said:
>
>>Now that I have the wireless NIC working, I'm going to have to get both
>>the built-in NIC and the wireless NIC to work together.
>
>>For my first test, I just changed the built-in Intel NIC driver to the
>>AmbiCom Prism driver, and all went well. Should I configure the wireless
>>NIC as a second NIC?
>
>>I want to use DHCP on whichever NIC gets a network. How can I configure
>>that?
>
>
>If you figure it out please let us all know.  I tried for a year to get a
>ired and wireless Nics to coexist and finally gave up and now only use
>wireless in my laptops.  Perhaps with DHCP and using the same router, DHCP
>server it might work.  TCP/IP only allows a single default route for all
>connections, so I could never get access to the other one (this was with
>the now ancient IBM Wireless LAN).  I couldn't get NetBIOS to work with
>two Nics either.  Though I have two wired Nics in server which runs Injoy
>firewall, without problem.
>
>What others have done is use the Alt-F1 boot menu to select which
>configuration to run on boot.  There was an article on how to do multiple
>boot configurations a long time ago by Dan Casey in the VOICE Newsletter. 
>It swaps config.sys with the appropriate driver and you have to swap
>protocol.ini files also. 
>http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0898H/vnewsf2.htm
>
>
>Mark
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