http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3403 <pre>I have updated the test version of GENMU at: (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 the 168C:0023 and 168C:002B devices will also work, b</pre> Doug Bissett 2012-04-02T23:18:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3400 <pre>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? </pre> Eirik Romstad 2012-03-12T21:53:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3397 <pre>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: &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; 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] &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; The Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16A7] and Broadcom GigaBit [14E4:16C7] are new. The GENMU_TEST package now contains: &lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt;&lt; at &gt; TEST devices included: RALINK [1814:2790] Atheros Wlan [168C:0023] 3COM Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card [10B7:5157] Atheros Wlan [168C:002B] Realtek Wlan [10EC:8172] Realtek Wlan [10EC:8199] Ralink Wlan [1814:0781] Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN [8086:4238] Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit [14E4:1648] B</pre> Doug Bissett 2012-03-06T03:07:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3388 <pre>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 '$' &amp; the ending double-quote). In PROT</pre> Al Savage 2012-03-04T19:03:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3380 <pre>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 </pre> Paul Smedley 2012-03-02T23:22:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3374 <pre>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 </pre> Paul Smedley 2012-02-25T04:41:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3373 <pre>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". WRND3</pre> Eirik Romstad 2012-02-23T09:16:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3362 <pre>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: &lt;access denied&gt; 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 </pre> Peter Krefting 2012-02-15T07:24:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3345 <pre>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 fr</pre> Roderick Klein 2012-02-03T23:48:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3338 <pre>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 </pre> Eirik Romstad 2012-01-24T21:09:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3334 <pre>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 </pre> Paul Smedley 2011-12-30T21:58:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3324 <pre>All, Per previous mails to the OS2_Wireless mailing list, WPA Supplicant 0.7.3 is now also available. Given the amount of effort that went into updating driver_genmac.c for 0.6.10, this one was trivial. Download link is: http://smedley.info/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-os2.zip Download links of other versions are: http://smedley.info/wpa_supplicant-0.5.11-os2.zip http://smedley.info/wpa_supplicant-0.6.10-os2.zip Of these - 0.5.11 has the LEAST changes to the version distributed in xwlan, so is the MOST likely to not break things :) please ensure you backup your working wpa_supplicant.exe first before replacing it with the one in the .zip Please report all successes and failures either via this list or directly to me via email. In the event of failures, enable xwlan to show the wpa_supplicant window so that we can see what's failing and send the output to me - it may give some clues as to what's going wrong. For the record, my results with my T60 and an Intel 3965 are: Works with all available wpa_sup</pre> Paul Smedley 2011-12-30T01:12:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3323 <pre>Hello all, I am looking for an N wireless card for my T23. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, Stu Updike </pre> Stuart Updike 2011-09-02T10:59:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3321 <pre>The Broadcom 14E4:1601 works in unsupported mode just fine. I used the 14E4:1654 but all of the 14E4:16xx seem to be the same (same inf and same sys files) so any I would expect to work. I edited the genm32w.os2 file so that it would not pop up the unsupported message by replacing the 1645 entry but it worked fine in unsupported mode. Andy </pre> Andy Willis 2011-08-31T21:59:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3308 <pre>Hi, as some may have noticed I try to get the ASUS EEE Slate EP 121 to work with eComStation. Some things are already working, some are under construction. You can see it on Youtube and read more at the eCS Yahoo group. As it comes with a half size MiniPCIe WLAN card I was in fear there might be no way to find a GENMAC supported one to replace it as I only know that those half size started with the Intel 500 Geneartion and above -&gt; not supported by GENMAC. I was really excited and delighted when I found the Test GENMU paket of Doug Bisset that includes the according files!! Thanks again Doug for your great efforts!! Well I installed the packages and the driver seems to load without issues - but as I know from ealrier adventures this might not mean that much ;-) And so - it is shown in the Hardware Manager es UNSUPPORTED and does get an IRQ and ADRESS. But xwlan can not see the device. This iss what WRND32 looks like. Can I provide any other information that might be helpfull in this case? Thanks to you</pre> Sigurd 2011-07-11T20:28:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3292 <pre> Hello there! I have a MSI Wind "clone" that uses a RTL8187SE wireless network card, which I would like to be supported on eComStation! :) As requested on support docs, I had run PCI and the result is: Bus 2 (PCI Express), Device Number 0, Device Function 0 Vendor 10ECh Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8199h RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller A working driver can be found here (only needed files, less than 200KB including the .REG): http://www.caetano.eng.br/tmp1037/RTL8187SE_WINXP2K.ZIP Feel free to ask anything is missing. :) My kindest regards, Daniel Caetano daniel&lt; at &gt;caetano.eng.br </pre> Daniel Caetano 2011-04-22T02:52:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3279 <pre>I just tried the latest ACPI 3.19 from BetaZone (ACPI319CR4.ZIP) on my T61 with eCS 2.0GA. I'm using the GenMac driver and XWLAN that was included in eComStation 2.0GA. Suspend works and unsuspend now works except that the wireless (Intel 3945ABG) won't connect on resume(shows a searching icon). I have to reboot to get my network connection back. Is anyone able to successfully Suspend/Resume and maintain a newtwork connection with any version of ACPI with a working GenMac wireless card? Mark </pre> madodel 2011-02-09T16:32:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3254 <pre> Hi, I've just acquired a new motherboard with a Realtek 8111/8168B (10EC:1068). The genmac WPI installer recognized the chip and attempted to install the driver, but the install failed even though the WarpIN install logs show now errors. I suspect my existing config.sys is too complicated for the installer to handle and it failed attempting to figure out where to stuff the genm32w.os2 device statement. I fixed this manually along with protocol.ini and now the chipset is recognized but genmac fails to initialize and complains WRND32$ bound to "TCPIP_NIF". WRND32$ WRAPPER for bus: 2 slot: 0 Vendor: 0x10EC Device: 0x8168. WRND32$ load SYS: "RTENICXP.SYS" length: 90496 CRC: 0x2982 / 0x2d18. WRND32$ load INF: "RTENICXP.REG" length: 577. WRND32$ WRAPPER NDIS_ERROR NETWORK_ADDRESS. WRND32$ WRAPPER hardware initerror: 0xc0010022. WRND32$ WRAPPER init ERROR!. I probably have a residual typo of some sort in protocol.ini. Could someone with a working 8111/8168B post a copy of a working protocol.ini? Th</pre> Steven Levine 2011-01-26T03:29:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3249 <pre>Hello everybody, While not an easy route and time consuming, I have started a new project. After the development of the Nvidia driver from Nick. Mensys had the Intel e1000e Intel developed. Both drivers are based on Linux source code. A great amount of credit goes to David Azarewicz (http://www.88watts.net). He is the person who worked hard to get UNIAUD to the currrent shape its in. And that shape has improved a lot! I have been talking to David to merge the 2 above drivers into 2 project. The goal: 1. Come up with an as generic as possibly code from so that you can take the hardware depended code from Linux and stick it in the skeleton driver. This has been achieved: http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac You can browse the code here: http://svn.ecomstation.nl/multimac/browser The trick is that the common code when its updated all drivers will benefit from it! 2. David is also working on getting support for the program cable10 in place. This is a program written by Yuri Dario that can do media s</pre> Roderick Klein 2010-10-31T21:48:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3232 <pre>Hi, I found drivers for the unsupported RT2500 I install those using mpts, and all went fine, but after a reboot i see a error when it starts up with " Unsupported Device" Any idea why i get this? Here some info from several files: protocol.ini: [PROT_MAN] DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$ [IBMLXCFG] tcpip_nif = tcpip.nif W1814x0201_nif = W1814x0201.nif [tcpip_nif] DriverName = TCPIP$ Bindings = W1814x0201_nif [W1814x0201_nif] DriverName = WRND32$ VENDOR = 0x1814 DEVICE = 0x0201 NDIS_SYS = "RT2500.SYS" NDIS_INF = "RT2500.REG" SSID = "WLAN" DEBUGLEVEL = "NONE" OPTIONS = "UNSUPPORTED" lantran.log 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: 0 slot: 21 Vendor: 0x1814 Device: 0x0201. WRND32$ load SYS: "RT2500.SYS" length: 236800 CRC: 0xd4aa / 0x0000. WRND32$ load INF: "RT2500.REG" length: 1176. WRND32$ WRAPPER hardware init successfull MAC : 001060:61266F. Wrnd32.log: //------</pre> TeLLie 2010-10-07T20:47:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user/3203 <pre>I am having real problems getting my T42 wireless to work with eCS2.0 I have turned off the NIC in the BIOS to prevent a genmac driver being loaded for that device. (If not off the installer loads genmac drivers for both NIC and Wireless which seems to cause problems. There is a working Intel driver available for the NIC) The atheros wireless device is recognised during the installation and the correct driver installed in genmac wrapper but alas once booted, the driver cannot see the device and I get message that there is no driver installed. I am sure I had this working under eCS1.2. Please could somebody advise possible solution. Regards, Alastair. </pre> Alastair Budge-Reid 2010-08-23T08:41:16 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user