From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2295354 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:43:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAD38A2.2030408@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:43:46 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS prefers GenMac References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/26/10 05:38 pm, Andy Willis thus wrote : > Neil Waldhauer wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:37:22 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Saville" >> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone noticed that ECS 2.* seems to prefer to set a card up with >>> Genmac - Even though it is a supported card and the drivers are there? >>> Happened twice to me. Once on a Tpad with an Intel internal NIC and >>> again on a desktop with a 3Com PCI NIC. Both have working OS/2 drivers >>> - which I changed to. >> >> Because GenMac works a lot better than the native drivers for a lot >> of tasks. >> Maybe not yours, though. It would be nice to have a program list the >> choices. >> >> Neil > Also because GenMac is using NDIS5 instead of NDIS2. This allows > things like Yuri's cable attach program to work which allows me to > plug into wire and boot to wire and boot without wire and boot to > wireless use. Indeed, the biggest advantage of GenMAC over native drivers is the NDIS5 functionality which we lack using DOS...er...OS/2 drivers. :-) Obviously, for many devices, there are still advantages to using the native ones than GenMAC (some Proliant servers, like the ML370 G3 on which this mailing list is hosted, *must* use the native driver, as GenMAC can't even *see* the Broadcom chip). Still, it would be nice for the installer to pop up a message saying that both a GenMAC and a native driver are available, a brief blurb about the pros and cons of each, and give the user the option of which one he or she wants to use. I guess one of us should open an RFE bug for this for 2.1. ;-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------