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Help Date: 21 June 2004

 

 

TCP/IP Over Radio Drivers for Windows 98/ME

This driver creates a "virtual" (software) network adapter that acts like a hardware network interface card (NIC).

The TCP/IP Over Radio driver for Windows 98 or Windows ME is not needed for normal packet use of PE Pro. It need only be installed if you plan to use PE Pro's special TCP/IP Over Radio feature to send and receive TCP/IP information via packet radio. Most users will not need this.

Driver Location

The driver files need to install a virtual network card are in a folder located in your main PE Pro folder:  ....\Packet Engine Pro\TCPIP Setup\WIN98_ME

The key files are agwtcp.inf and agwtcpip.sys

Make a note of the path to these files for use in the following steps.
 

Installing the Windows 98 TCP/IP Over Radio Driver

  1. Open the Windows Control Panel and double click Network.
  2. Press the Add button
  3. Select Adapter and press the Add button
  4. On the Select Network Adapter screen, press the Have disk..  button and browse to the ....\Packet Engine Pro\TCPIP Setup\WIN2000 folder, highlight the agwtcp.inf file and press OK
  5. Select the SV2AGW TCP/IP Adapter and press OK.
  6. After Windows copies the files, it will ask for the WIN98 CDROM and copy more files
  7. Then in the list of installed components you should have a new entry for
    TCP/IP->SV2AGW TCP/IP Adapter. Highlight it and press Properties.
  8. On the IP Address tab specify:
    IP address: enter the amateur radio IP address you will use for TOR
    (see 1 below)
    Subnet: enter 255.255.255.0
  9. On the WINS tab, check disable
  10. On the Gateway tab:
    New Gateway = add the amateur radio IP address of the distant station that you will use as a gateway; if you are the gateway, enter nothing
  11. On the DNS tab, check mark disable DNS.
  12. On the Bindings tab, check Client for Microsoft Networks
  13. Leave NETBIOS disabled and Advanced blank
  14. Press OK repeatedly and restart your computer


1 IP address for each station in your TOR network. If your network will be relatively simple and will not tie into other TCP/IP networks, you can pick your own IP addresses. Since Amateur Radio has been assigned the block of IP addresses beginning with "44.", you should begin your addresses that way (example: 44.1.1.1 and 44.1.1.2). If your network may be heard by or tie into other ham TCP/IP networks, you should instead obtain unique addresses from your local TCP/IP coordinator. This will prevent the routing problems that could develop when two or more stations use the same IP address.

 

Copyright 2004 SV2AGW George Rossopoulos . All rights reserved.