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Date:	Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:56:32 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	Scoug Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Wireless summary

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Laptop, Fujitsu C2330, Realtech 8138 wired lan, Intel 2200B\G wireless
lan. Linksys WRT54G 4 port router + wireless. eCS 1.2rm, WXP, W2K.
This is my road machine. I need to connect to whatever is available.

Installed Genmac 100+16. Installed XWLAN 2.12. Created Widget, don't
get sidetracked by the grayed out "add widget".

Wired 8139 support I got "out-of-the-box". Wireless support I got by
going to MTPS and changing 8139 to 2200. In MTPS I have added 8139
when 2200 was already there, and 2200 when 8139 was there. And I have
played with the protocol numbers. I have never gotten either to work
with the other loaded.

Private wireless worked like this: The router will accept a decimal
number. On the advise of Linksys I entered a ten digit number as key
1. I entered the same number in WXP and W2K, and they worked. WLAN
would not accept that number. Both the router and WLAN have a
generate function. I entered the same passphrase in each and they
produced the same four keys; except for the extra 0. OS/2 then
connected private. I did not find a generate function in WXP or W2K.
I copied key 1 from the router and they both work now as private.

I saved config.sys and protocol.ini from 8139 only install and 2200
only. To switch between wired and wireless I replace config.sys and
protocol.ini and reboot. At this point I am functional.

If I could get them to use a common protocol.ini, and I could create
an interactive config.sys, I could select the mode during boot.

DHCP is set for 30 seconds. It actually starts the countdown at 40.
In wireless mode, it times out, I have to press enter, it goes to
background mode, and sometime after boot settles the system connects.
It would be preferable to just go straight to background mode.

Ray

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