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Help Date: 21 June 2004

 

 

TCP/IP Over Radio Drivers for Windows 2000

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 2000 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\WIN2000

The key files are agwtcp2k.inf and agwtcpip.sys

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

Installing the Win2000 TCP/IP Over Radio Driver

  1. Open the Windows Control Panel and select Add/Remove Hardware.
  2. Press NEXT and select "Add/troubleshoot Device". Press Next and wait while windows searches for devices.
  3. Select the first item from the resulting list, Add a new device, and press NEXT.
  4. Select No, I want to select the hardware from a list and press NEXT.
  5. Select from the resulting list Network Adapters and press NEXT.
  6. Press the Have disk.. button and browse to the ....\Packet Engine Pro\TCPIP Setup\WIN2000 f older.
  7. Select the AGWTCP2k.inf file and press OK to return to the Add hardware Wizard.
  8. Select the SV2AGW TCPIP Over Radio Ndis Driver and press NEXT. It will warn you about a digital signature. Ignore this by pressing Yes. and then press Finish.
  9. Now from the Control Panel select Network and Dial-up Connections.
  10. You should have a new entry entitled TCP/IP Over Radio adapter. Double click it and press Properties.
  11. Select the TCP/IP protocol and fill your:
    * IP Address: See
    1 below
    * Gateway's IP Address: enter the IP amateur radio address of the distant station that you will use as a gateway; if you are the gateway, enter nothing.
    * DNS Name: enter the Gateway IP Address or leave blank
  12. You have finished with the installation of the TCP Virtual Ethernet Card.
  13. Now From the same TCP/IP Over Radio adapter properties dialog, press the Install.. button.
  14. Select protocol and press Add...
  15. Again press Have Disk.. and browse to the driver directory and select the AGWAx25.inf file.
  16. Select the SV2AGW IP Over Radio Protocol and press OK.  Now you have this new protocol checked on EVERY Adapter you have. This is harmless for the other adapters, but adds a bit overhead. So go to the properties page for each of the other all adapters and uncheck the "SV2AGW IP Over Radio Protocol.


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.