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Date:	Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:10:08 PDT7
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Nextel or Verizon wireless

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In <200409061650906.SM01244@MAIN>, on 09/06/04
at 04:35 PM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>Has anyone had any success with wireless internet under OS/2 or
>eComstation? If not, anyone have any informed opinions as to whether or
>not I can get this to work under Verizon?

Alas, I posted also to the eCS-Technical list, and someone offlist told me
that (and I'll leave off parts of the post that I know he wouldn't want
posted, at least without permission):

The issue with OS/2 or eCs is the total lack of not only drivers but also
the 'card management' or 'watcher' software. I think you might -
and I emphasize *might* - be able to get the drivers running under Linux.
Given the size of the development community around OS/2 and eCS, I would
be surprised to see it work :( it's far from impossible, but even on
Windows a lot of this stuff is very clunky right now - and this is their
target design platform.

On the bright side, the actual hardware isn't impossible to understand, as
the article you found indicates - basically it's a USB/PPP device in a
fancy package with an antenna :) if you could find a developer who knows
how those protocols work on OS/2, I suspect they could pull something off
similar to what happens on Linux. And certainly you don't *have* to have
the watcher software - you just need access to a Windows box to activate
the card first time around.

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