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Date:	Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:12:49 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: OS/2 supported wireless NIC

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Steve Schiffman wrote:

> Bob wrote:
> > any OS/2 supported wireless NIC (I need the name and model)?
>
> Tonight I was able to verify that the Dlink DWL-2100AP access point
> does have a client mode.

. . .

> The other option for an external wireless client is to use one of the
> gaming (Xbox, PlayStation) wireless clients such as Dlink's DWL-G810,
> DWL-G820 or DGL-3420 devices. This provides O/S independent wireless
> connectivity. It may not be as portable as a wireless mPCI or PC card
> adapter, but it will provide wireless support for OS/2 without much
> hassle until native OS/2 wireless drives for other than PRISM chipset
> wireless adapters become available.

I inquired about this a few weeks ago on the list, and got no response.
Timothy Sipples then gave me an answer that pretty much parallels your
reply to Bob. It's unlikely I would have any clue about implementing
this however, but IAC it is cumbersome; I was hoping for one of those
external plug-in gizmos (USB-2) that are around 3 x the size of a memory
stick. Based on what I could read (or follow) on this subject, I
returned an unopened Hawking unit I'd bought on sale at Fry's, and picked
up a D-Link model that my research indicated had a Prism-GT chipset.
This is apparently later than the Prism 2, 2.5, or 3 chipsets that had
been supported (in wireless _cards_ only, I believe), but which (perhaps)
held out more hope of being supported in the not-too-distant future.
Anyway, after the then-on-sale price + rebate, I was only rolling the
dice to the tune of 20 bucks . . . and I knew it would work under Win.

Still, if you or anyone else knows of another such plug-in job that *is*
supported for eCS, I would certainly like to hear about it.

Jordan

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