Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi list, finally I am online with the Avaya PCMCIA Wi-Fi card. After all, it seemed to by a hardware problem. Having failed on my rather high-end Acer TM529 ATXV laptop (Intel Pentium IIIE), I tried the same configuration on an older Ascentia J laptop (Pentium I). I realized, that the PCMCIA enabler could not load on that machine. Fortunately there is a software patch for this problem available at the Intel website. The documentation says: The files 6729_3E0.SYS (written by Cirrus Logic) and IRQ11OFF.COM (from AST) allow the 16-bit Real Mode drivers for Xircom PCMCIA products to load on computers with the Cirrus Logic 6729 and 6730 PCMCIA controller chip sets. 6729_3E0.SYS and/or IRQ11OFF.COM are required to free resources on the computer for the Xircom PCMCIA adapter to use. So I changed the configuration from config.sys: ------------------------------ DEVICE=WVLANCAD.SYS /i=10 /b=300 /m=dF00 autoexec.bat: --------------------------- WVLAN42 l to: config.sys: ------------------------------ DEVICE=6729_3E0.SYS DEVICE=WVLANCAD.SYS /i=10 /b=300 /m=dF00 autoexec.bat: --------------------------- IRQ11OFF.COM WVLAN42 l Then, not only the packet drivers loaded, but also everything else worked. Both settings Bootp or static IP in Arachne.cfg turned out to be possible. When I inserted BOOTP into arachne.cfg or wattp.cfg, it took Arachne considerable time to get connected (similar to the time until I get a feedback from DHCP server in Linux). And as Arachne seems to renew the connection rather often this is quite annoying. The alternative is to insert the IP address that I used to receive from the DHCP server. In that case Arachne becomes quite fast. But not as fast as the Linux browsers - I will do some tests with the Links browser in DOS Links next. The problem is that I may not always know my exact IP, the number varies if one of our neighbours is connected to the wireless LAN before I log in. The configuration through IP address will probably work only after I have at least once run dhcp (with Arachne or simply by pinging the name server). A workaround for this could be similar to the dial-up connection: after receiving a dynamic address from the dhcp server, wattcp.cfg could be overwritten with the IP number replacing bootp/dhcp. May be I can do this externally with the help of of tcpinfo.exe. Christof ________________________________________________________________ Ceskobratrska cirkev evangelicka - Betlemska kaple na Zizkove Prokopova 4/216, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic Tel. (+420) 222 78 06 73 / 222 78 20 02 / 603 18 87 53 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --