wireless NETBIOS filesharing-- problem source found

I've been posting here for a while about how I can't get filesharing
to work on my wireless computer using NETBIOS. The computer is a Dell
Inspiron 5150 running XP with the 1300 internal wireless card, and the
other computers (wired) use XP Pro and OS/2. The wireless router is a
WRT54g.

After much trial and error I back-leveled the wireless card's driver
to one I found on the internet-- the generic Broadcom 3.100.46.0
version. The file is bcmwl5.sys. Now wireless file sharing works
perfectly. I haven't experimented with releases newer than that one
but older than the current one, so I don't know when NETBIOS was
broken.

Is anyone else aware of this issue-- was the change to the driver
deliberate (since Micro$oft no longer supports netbeui) or was it an
accident?
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"Mark Klebanoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've been posting here for a while about how I can't get filesharing
> to work on my wireless computer using NETBIOS. The computer is a Dell
> Inspiron 5150 running XP with the 1300 internal wireless card, and the
> other computers (wired) use XP Pro and OS/2. The wireless router is a
> WRT54g.
>
> After much trial and error I back-leveled the wireless card's driver
> to one I found on the internet-- the generic Broadcom 3.100.46.0
> version. The file is bcmwl5.sys. Now wireless file sharing works
> perfectly. I haven't experimented with releases newer than that one
> but older than the current one, so I don't know when NETBIOS was
> broken.
>
> Is anyone else aware of this issue-- was the change to the driver
> deliberate (since Micro$oft no longer supports netbeui) or was it an
> accident?
> --
>

All I ever had on the XP pro machine laptop that was wireless was TCP/IP, MS
F&PS, and Client for MS networks or I used MS NWlink IPX/SPX Netbios
compatible on all NIC's and had no problems networking wire or wireless
machines.

Netbeui is not a routable protocols and you can run into problems on the
wireless when sharing resources.

Duane