OS4.1(.1) and WiFi

Hi,

I bought a PCI WiFi card from AmigaKit which I have installed in my SAM-flex. The card uses the prism2.device driver. Now, the card itself works fine (too bad there's no WPA encryption support in the driver), but I noticed that when the net interface is running (as long as the machine is switched on, really ) if i try to do a soft reset, the USB will freeze and I have to do a hard reset to get it back up. I had the problem on OS4.1, but I thought it would go away on update 1. It didn't so now I am posting here.

Also, there is a "wifi manager" that is supposed to go in WbStartup folder and will bring up a status icon on AmiDock, with the current signal strength. I can launch this from workbench now and it will appear in AmiDock, but if I set in the WbStartup prefs that it should be launched at startup, it gets started, but it does not appear on AmiDock (which kind of renders it useless). This worked before Update 1, when the WbStartup folder still existed.

Has anyone else had these issues? And are they solvable (esp. the soft reset issue)?

@RuDeE

I'm in contact via email with the authors of both the driver and wifisignal utility.

I'll direct them to this post too. FYI I have the exact same issues. You can use the older version of the driver (and setprism2defaults utility too) that AmigaKit give you, and it will allow you to hard-reboot with lamiga+alt+alt, but a soft reboot still freezes the system.

@MickJT

Allright, thanks! Let's hope these issues gets resolved then. For now I can live with it.

@RuDeE

The WifiSignal docky is an AmiDock problem. It could be worked around easily within WifiSignal (with a Delay() based on a tooltype), or you can create a script, make it a project of IconX and stick that in WBStartUp Prefs instead:

@RuDeE

Ive added a delay as suggested by Chris below to my WifiSignal prog.

You can download and test from:

www.curtyh.talktalk.net/wifisignal

@MickJT

In regard to the no transparency in 16 bit with compostion on,
i can recreate her and have reported this to an OS4 developer.

@RuDeE

I now have a prism2.device I compiled that works fine. If anyone else is interested, let me know.

@MickJT

How about uploading it to OS4Depot?

@HammerD

I'll see if I can get the go ahead from Neil Cafferkey.

Quote:

Why do people use IconX?

Since like forever you can change icon type to "Tool", set the S-flag and set it to start from shell.

@Curty

Thanks! I'll try it out

@MickJT

Cool, thanks

@kolla

Apparently that's not (supposed to be) supported by WBStartUp. *shrug*

I have permission now to upload it to OS4Depot (not that I needed permission, but..). Expect it there in a few hours. Gotta go out right now, will upload later.

@MickJT

Cool that's great :)

@Curty

That link doesn't work.

@Chris

This does:

http://www.curtyh.talktalk.net/WiFiSignal