Welcome to the development home of Wireless LAN Monitor (XWLAN/WLAN)

XWLAN/WLAN enables you to switch your OS/2 - eComStation system between wired and wireless network. The Wireless LAN Monitor is available both as a XCenter Widget as well as a standalone program.

Please check more information about this project at this page.

From here you can report bugs and view your tickets.

This page needs some polishing. So if you want to contribute feel free to contact the project maintainers.

Binaries

20140301 new version available at ftp.netlabs ​ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan312beta2.zip

v3.12 beta2

• Fixed blocking xcenter/WPS caused by dhclient VIO window

• New option for suppressing beeps from DHCP client and when connection is established

• Enable write to log file for dhclient instead running in VIO window

• instwgt.cmd now unlocks files before copying (new unlock.exe included)

• Added dhclient.exe and dhconf.cmd (should be available in a future dhclient.rpm)

For older versions see Versions History

Troubleshooting

See ​readme.txt

Feedback and Support

If you find bugs, please create a ​New Ticket.

You must be logged into TRAC to create tickets. Please login with your ​Netlabs login id. If you do not have a login id, you can request one at ​http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml. If you have troubles acquiring a ​Netlabs login id send an e-mail to ​Netlabs Community Mailing List.

The support mailing list is at ​wlan/xwlan Users Mailing List. To subscribe to the user support mailing list, send mail to ​Subscribe to xwlan Users Mailing List. The subject and body can be empty. You will receive a response which you must reply to to complete the process.

Use the support mailing list for both user and developer discussions. If the developer traffic gets too high, we will create a separate developer's mailing list.

This list is an ​EzMLM mailing lists. If you need help subscribing, see ​Netlabs Mailing Lists.

Like all ​Netlabs Mailing Lists, these lists are mirrored to ​Gmane. The support list is mirrored at ​xwlan/wlan user.

History

Christian Langanke has developed xwlan/wlan from the beginning as Netlabs open source project. Xwlan is the standard tool for almost all eCS notebook users for switching between wireless and wired network profiles. Since years xwlan works very well. But now it needs some minor updates and bug fixes. For this we transferred the cvs source code into svn and set up this ticket system.

Beside developing the source code Christian made a marvelous good job in documentation and making presentations at various Warpstock events. Follow the links at ​http://wlan.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml

In January 2013 Andreas Buchinger began to contribute. First step was pushing Adrian to set up the svn and creating this page.

Building xwlan

• check out complete source tree from svn (trunk)
• follow the included documentation

From build.txt

- Does not build with rc.exe v5.xx. Use rc v4.00.011 instead.
- Does not build with DEBUG=1 and PMPRINTF=1 set together
- nmake does not always honor SET COMPILER365=1 set by vac3.65 setenv.cmd so
  there's a hack for that at the beginning of rules.in. Seems to be some
  environment variable memory overflow. Maybe only on my machine.
- When using vac3.65 the 'Workplace Shell Toolkit' has to be compiled with
  vac3.65 too of course.


Version of used tools
---------------------
nmake.exe
  Operating System/2 Program Maintenance Utility
  Version 4.00.001 Oct  4 2001
  
ilink.exe
  IBM(R) Linker for OS/2(R), Version 5.0

rc.exe
  Operating System/2 Resource Compiler
  Version 4.00.011 Oct 10 2000

icc.exe
  IBM* C and C++ Compilers for OS/2*, AIX* and for Windows NT**, Version 3.6

Screenshots

Links

• ​StarOffice presentation held by Christian at WSE2004 - Read this when you start wireless networking with OS/2 - eComStation
• ​StarOffice presentation held by Christian at WSE2005- Read this after WSE2004 presentation.
• ​Warpstock Europe 2006: LAN01 - WPA Security with Wireless LAN Monitor - Online. Online version of the S5 HTML presentation about security with wireless LAN Monitor, as held on Warpstock Europe 2006. This can be viewed with no problem using Mozilla Webbrowsers like SeaMonkey and Firefox. ​Download

• ​OS/2 Warp Compatible Hardware List Web site: OS/2 and WiFi WLAN. This page includes the most current and complete information on Wireless LAN under OS/2 and eComStation.
• ​WLAN Project Support Web Page. This page accesses the support mailing list for the WLAN Project via a web browser.
• ​Information about the Netlabs Support Mailing Lists. This web page describes all methods that can be used to access the Netlabs Support Mailing Lists. The name for the maling list of the WLAN project is wlan-user.
• ​XCenter Plugin List homepage. This site lists available XCenter widgets from various sources, including the Wireless LAN Monitor.
• ​GenMac Wrapper. See the homepage of the Generic MAC Wrapper driver to fetch the latest version. This is required by Wireless LAN Monitor to support WPA encryption for supported WLAN devices.

Credits

• Christian Langanke
• Adrian Gschwend (running netlabs.org)
• Steven Levine
• Andreas Buchinger

If we forgot anyone, please let us know. It was unintentional.