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Doug Bissett | 3 Apr 01:18

Updated GenmU_TEST

I have updated the test version of GENMU at:

> ftp://genmac <at> ftp.os2voice.org/

(use the word "unsupported" - without the quotes, and in lower case - 
if you are asked for a password). The devices that are waiting for 
confirmation that they work (or don't) are:
RALINK Wlan [1814:2790]
Atheros Wlan [168C:0023]
3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card [10B7:5157]
Atheros Wlan [168C:002B]
Realtek 8172 Wlan [10EC:8172]
Realtek 8199 Wlan [10EC:8199]
Ralink Wlan [1814:0781]
Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN [8086:4238]
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit [14E4:1648]
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit [14E4:16B7]
Atheros Wlan [168C:0024]

The main change (other than a couple of devices) is that the installer 

now performs the patching of \IBMCOM\MACS\genm32w.os2 for you. It does 

expect to find an unaltered version of genm32w.os2 in that location, or 

the patch can silently fail to happen. PLEASE READ the 
GENMU_TEST_README.TXT file.

In fact, the 168C:0024 has been made to work, which probably means that
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Eirik Romstad | 12 Mar 22:53
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MAC addresses

My quest for making the Intel Centrion 6300 a/g/n/ card work seemed to have
ended when nobody were able to explain the error message

WRND32$  WRAPPER ErrorLog 0x40001b7c

in Lantran.log.  One possible explanation for this error could be that the MAC
address is 

WRND32$  WRAPPER hardware init successfull MAC : 000000:000000.

On the eComStation.ru FAQ pages for unsupported GenMac installation it says that
if the MAC address is 000000:000000, one needs to set the MAC address manually.
 Unfortunately, it does not say how this is done.  I've searched the OS/2 help
pages where it says:

Use NET RIPLMACH to create, change, display, or delete a remote IPL (RIPL)
requester definition using parameters that are specified on the command line.
Use this command only with WorkSpace On-Demand requester definitions

with the following specific command: NET RIPLMAC /MA(C) mac:adr

Anyone with experience here, or with another suggestion?
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Doug Bissett | 6 Mar 04:07

GENMAC UNSUPPORTED updates

Thanks to Lewis Rosenthal, I have added two devices to the GENMU 
package, and one to the GENMU_TEST package.

The GENMU package now contains:
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UNOFFICIAL DEVICES supported as UNSUPPORTED:
=====================
Atheros Wlan AR5007EG/AR242X [168C:001C]
Attansic Fast Ethernet [1969:2048]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:1601]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:165A]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:1693]
Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16A7]
Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16C7]

OFFICIAL DEVICES UPDATED:
====================
Intel 2200 Wlan [8086:4220]
Intel 2915abg Wlan [8086:4224]
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The Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16A7] and Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16C7] are 
new.

The GENMU_TEST package now contains:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
TEST devices included:
RALINK [1814:2790]
Atheros Wlan [168C:0023]
3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card [10B7:5157]
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Al Savage | 4 Mar 20:03
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Broadcom BCM5751PKFB (integrated): No Valid Hardware Found

I have four HP DC7100 desktop PCs, circa 2005. Single processor, single 
core 3.0Ghz Intel.
I have installed eCS 2.1GA to one of them.  Single OS, single HDD, new 
blank HDD (WD20EARS, 2TiB) using Promise TX4 SATA 300 PIC host adapter.

MEMTEST86+ 4.20 tested the 2GiB RAM OK.

Kernel is 105_SMP

ACPI is 3.19.15, installed via the WarpIn pkg. (This hardware will hang 
at boot if installing "Modern Hardware, safe mode". Hangs during boot if
the PSD= line is REMd.)

GenMAC 2.2 (I did download the "Full Installation" from Netlabs and 
installed that one too, even though it appears to be the same as shipped
with eCS 2.1GA: no change before or after.)

The NIC is integrated, Broadcom BCM5751PKFB (14E4:1677).  The mainboard 
has only two expansion slots, so I am very interested in using this 
integrated NIC (rather than adding a NIC to a valuable PCI slot).

During boot, I see the GenMAC wrapper driver stating, "No Valid Hardware
Found for "WRND32$ " (note the space between '$' & the ending 
double-quote).

In PROTOCOL.INI, I have
   DEBUGLEVEL = "ALL"

At boot completion to desktop, at a command prompt:
C:\> type wrnddb$ > mylogfile.log
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Paul Smedley | 3 Mar 00:22
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What devices (wired or wireless) do people require support for?

Hi All,

Continuing a thread from 
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,4990.msg23786/topicseen,1/#new

What devices - wired or wireless - would end users like to see support 
for in multimac?

I'm in the VERY early stages of exploring what's required to port a 
linux network card driver to multimac.

I'd prefer to start on a wired driver as I perceive at least that that's 
an easier path as at least we know the multimac framework supports that. 
  If/when I can get a wired device to work, I'd then look at a wireless 
driver.

Cheers,

Paul
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Paul Smedley | 25 Feb 05:41
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WPA Supplicant 2.0-devel build

Hi All,

I built wpa_supplicant 2.0-devel, based on a download from the git 
repository which was updated this morning.

Test build is at:

http://smedley.id.au/wpa_supplicant-2.0-devel-os2-2012-02-25.zip

Replace your existing wpa_supplicant.exe with the one from the zip, 
noting that libc064.dll is a requirement.

Please report results either here or directly to me via email.

Cheers,

Paul
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Eirik Romstad | 23 Feb 10:16
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Unsupported installation - errormessages in GenMac

I have been working hard (with the assistance of Doug Bisset and others) to use
GenMac and XWLAN to provide wireless access for Intel Centrino 5xxx and 6xxx
cards.  My test case it is the Intel Centrino 6300 card in a Lenovo Thinkpad
T410, but if sucessful, I think this could be useful to others as well.

I have gotten this far:
- the GenMac driver loads appropriately and the boot process is fine and no
errors in the Genm32w.log
- XWLAN is properly installed, and picks up GenMac properly with one exception:
in the Properties/Device on the XWLAN widget the pulldown menu does not provide
a choice of GenMac available drivers (as it should).  According to Christian
Langanke, XWLAN should pick up the appropriate parameters from GenMac if it is
working.

I think (but is not certain) the failure may be linked to the second kast
following message from my Lantran.log file (in the ibmcom directory):

IBM OS/2 LANMSGDD [05/21/04] 6.00 is loaded and operational.
IBM OS/2 LAN Netbind
WRND32$  bound to  "TCPIP_NIF".
WRND32$  WRAPPER for bus: 3 slot: 0 Vendor: 0x8086 Device: 0x4238.
WRND32$  load SYS: "netw4x32.sys" length: 2206976 CRC: 0x84fd / 0x1005.
WRND32$  load INF: "netw4x32.reg" length: 2647.
WRND32$  WRAPPER ErrorLog 0x40001b7c.
WRND32$  WRAPPER hardware init successfull MAC : 000000:000000.

Anyone with any suggestions what WRAPPER ErrolLog 0x40001b7c means?

If this is solved GenMac can be given prolonged life for currently unupported
devices while we wait for the MultiMac project to produce WiFi drivers.
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Peter Krefting | 15 Feb 08:24
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Support for Eeepc 901 networking

Hi!

Installing the full Genmac 2.2 package on my eeepc 901 running eCS 2.1 says it 
doesn't find any matching drivers, so I tried following the instructions for 
how to add new ones, but didn't manage to do it manually.

Here is a ZIP of the relevant files from the Windows drivers (directly from the 
installer package, I do not have Windows installed on the machine):
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/eeepc-network.zip

The network drivers are identified as such by lspci on Linux:

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2860 [1814:0781]
  Subsystem: RaLink Device [1814:2790]
  Physical Slot: eeepc-wifi
  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
  Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: rt2860

04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 
Gigabit or Fast Ethernet [1969:1026] (rev b0)
  Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8324]
  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
  Memory at fbfc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
  I/O ports at ec80 [size=128]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: ATL1E

I hope this is useful, if not, I will do what I can to help out.
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Roderick Klein | 4 Feb 00:48
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Wifi chipsets that could possibly work thanks to the latest ACPI!

On the 30 of December last 2011 Mensys released ACPI version 3.19.14.

While still under active development this is a new public ACPI released
done by David. What might interested people here with Genmac/wifi testing.

Some people reported the needed the so called "PCI write" function in
acpi.cfg to get "wake up" certain Wifi chipsets. This is just one of the
many improvements in the new APCI version.

People who tested Genmac with NIC drivers that loaded and did not get an
IRQ reassigned might want to try again with this new ACPI version.
The PCI write option has been take out of ACPI. The code now scans the
PCI bus and turns on the device automatically. This might make some
wireless device work that previously did not work!

This is the current status of ACPI 3.19.15, which should be getting
close for public release. Below is the complete readme of the current
internal build of ACPI from the 31st of january. While more work is
needed. Suspend resume is realy making a lot of headway and working.

Readme from acpi 3.19.15 internal test version:

Readme for ACPI package version 3.19.15

This version of ACPI.PSD and related files is a beta version and still
under heavy development.

In addition to installing the requested software, the Warpin Installer
for this package will make the following changes to your system:
   1. Remove POWERMAN.EXE from you CONFIG.SYS, if it exists.
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Eirik Romstad | 24 Jan 22:09
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Support for the Intel Centrino 6200/6250/6300 cards using the 4965 GenMac settings

According to the Intel documentation it is the same software that is used for
all Centrino wifi cards from the 4965 and onwards. This may imply that the
GenMac? driver for the 4965 card also should work for the 6200/6250/6300 cards.

Has anyone tried to use the 4925 Genmac driver for later Intel Centrino cards
using the unsupported documentation on ecomstation.ru pages?

Also, for Thinkpad T4x0/T5x0-series that many choose to have preinstalled with
Win 7 (same driver file as for XP), does anyone know how to obtain the nif and
sym files?

For my system (T410) running eCS 2.1 Paul Hart's pci picks up the following
information:
 Bus 3 (PCI Express), Device Number 0, Device Function 0
 Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
 Device 4238h Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
 Subsystem ID 11118086h Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN
 Subsystem Vendor 8086h Intel Corporation
 System IRQ 17, INT# A
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Paul Smedley | 30 Dec 22:58
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WPA Supplicant 0.7.3 updated - 2011-12-31 build

Hi All,
A new build - http://smedley.info/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-os2-20111231.zip

 From History section of readme.os2:
2011-12-31: Use wpa_supplicant makefiles instead of makefile.os2 - eases 
maintenance
             Use Openssl libs instead of internal TLS library
             Enable more EAP options - see .config in archive to see 
what is/isn't enabled

Still doesn't work with my Linksys access point, but still does work 
with my Billion.

In theory there shouldn't be any regressions vs the previous 0.7.3 Mind 
you, it may not fix anything either, but with more EAP options enabled 
it may help.

Cheers,

Paul
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