baden.kudrenecky@gmail.com schrieb:
Hi Dave:
...
....I hacked in xwlan from my ECS for my WiFi. ....
What need you to 'hack in'? Wasn't it that easy than installing the .wpi? You can even
export your profiles from you old machine and import in into the installation. Any
problems with that?
...I was hoping to die using OS/2, but now it looks like I will live longer, and OS/2 will die sooner.
I really hope so ;-).
...
... Why cannot xwlan be modified to provide contemporary functionality?
Depends on what you define contemporary functionality. If you mean mimic the behavior what
other OSes do today then one answer would be, cause no one needs it. No current wifi
driver -> no need for xwlan. But even if we had newer wifi drivers I fear no one will
catch up all the changes in wireless technology and UI expectations that were happening
the last 15 years. I fear not even the interface to the driver (usually genmac) which was
defined more that 20 years ago will be sufficient to current needs/hardware. So the
answers are many - no need, no driver, no motivation, no resources for a complete new
solution instead xwlan, only a few developers who can compile the current xwlan and even
less who like do it, ...
.. Why cannot a simple 32 bit native OS/2 browser with basic functionality be developed?
Ask yourself, why can't you do it by yourself? I think the same arguments are valid for
the waste majority of the other OS/2 users too.
Regards,
Andi
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