Specific STOP / RUN commands

[rodpulsar]

Hi guys,

I am trying to make my WHDLoad 18 as stable as possible, especially because of my Subway and PCMCIA Wifi card.

For the Poseidon (Subway), it now works :

1 - My user-startup contains :

;BEGIN Poseidon
ENVARC:PsdStackloader
;END Poseidon

2 - My WHDLoad-Startup contains :

;stop Poseidon USB-stack
C:AddUSBHardware REMOVE ALL

3 - My WHDLoad-Cleanup contains :

;start Poseidon USB-stack
ENVARC:PsdStackloader



Now for the TCP, I use an Orinoco Gold with WirelessManager + prism2.device, and MiamiDX

I only launch Miami when I intend to go surfing or reach my Synology in SMB. BUT my Orinoco is always ON (green light on it). Because of that every WHDLoad program stops after a fewminutes. After a lot of tests it appears that it is because of the Wireless Manager command line in my user startup :

;BEGIN WirelessManager
RUN <>NIL: C:WirelessManager prism2.device
;END WirelessManager

I suppose I will have to add the same command in WHDLoad-Cleanup, but what can I add in WHDLoad-startup to OFF this WirelessManager device plz ?


Thanks to you all

[TenLeftFingers]

I'm interested in this too. Is there a command to stop wireless manager when it was loaded from the startup-sequence and not a CLI? I don't like rebooting every time I want to play a game.

[idrougge]

If you run AmiTCP, try "offline prism2.device".

[TenLeftFingers]

Hi idrougge. Thanks for your reply. I'm running roadshow, but I'll try the command and see if it works.

[idrougge]

Roadshow uses a different command, something like NetInterfaceDown or something. I've never used Roadshow myself, but the functionality is there.

[TenLeftFingers]

It's NetShutDown (found it in C: - thanks for the clue). But it doesn't seem to make a difference WRT WHDLoad. Maybe the driver needs to be unloaded too (prism2.device).
RemoveNetInterface is the antonym of the AddNetInterface command used to set up the connection, but it doesn't seem to find a process to shutdown.

[Wepl]

You can check via Scout if the device is still opened.
If not try Avail Flush.
If it is still opened you can try the attached 'RemDevice prism2.device'.

[TenLeftFingers]

Thanks Wepl. Is the Scout one of these? http://aminet.net/search?query=scout
avail flush just summarises chp and fast memory on the CLI
remdevice prism2.device (and remdevice prism2) don't change the WHDLoad behaviour, unfortunately.

Tomorrow, I will try running them without wirelessmanager but with the hardware inserted to see if the hardware itself is the issue. I think I remember Lemmings not loading from floppy while I had the PCMCIA device.

[Wepl]

Yes, it's the one from the util/moni directory.

[TenLeftFingers]

Thanks again! Removing the device directly (after stopping the network) causes a guru. But I'll play around with it some more and see if there's a more graceful way than pulling the driver out from under the system

[cmsj]

Originally Posted by TenLeftFingers

Thanks again! Removing the device directly (after stopping the network) causes a guru. But I'll play around with it some more and see if there's a more graceful way than pulling the driver out from under the system

@TenLeftFingers - did you ever come up with a solution for this?

[cmsj]

Actually, never mind, I figured out a way to do it. For future Google reference, in my S:WHDLoad-Startup, I have:

C:NetShutdown
set wirelessManagerPID `status COM=C:WirelessManager`
IF VAL $wirelessManagerPID GT 0
  break $wirelessManagerPID
ENDIF

[TenLeftFingers]

Hi cmsj, I didn't see your message in time. Thanks for the solution! If you're on AskAmiga that would make a nice contribution

[bladecgn]

Concerning Gensis: What is the best way to stop the stack when using whdload?


In WHDLoad-Startup: If I quit WirelessManager in the aforementioned way, I find that rx adress genesis ´offline´ and ónline´after playing WHDLoad brings my system to a halt. That probably because Genesis doesn't unload the prism2 driver. RemDevice doens't let you unload it manually, either, I see that using Scout.


Only if I issue the "Break" command to stop genesis and fully restart genesis after whdload my system stays up and running.


Is there another way to pause (or stop/start) Genesis when using WHDLoad? Fully restarting Genesis takes quite a lot of computing power and time.

[idrougge]

Doesn't it suffice to (from the shell) run "offline <your interface>"?