Hi OriAl,
One question, why the USB3 model and not just the PRO - we don't have any drivers for the NEC USB3 chips, and I don't think we will any time soon short of a miracle.
Now a couple of observations. At the moment there is no driver for the inbuilt LAN but you can use your PCI card for that. Sound will require a little experimentation with the uniaud drivers to find the one that will work - I can't be of much help as we don't use sound on our OS/2 machines.
You shouldn't need a floppy drive because eCS is a bootable CD.
You will have a choice of either getting an SATA CD/DVD or putting an IDE one as slave to your IDE hard disk - not a good idea as a permanent setup, or getting a new SATA hard drive and installing eCS2 on it then transferring everything you need from your old drive.
Not long ago I set up a system for a friend using the non IDE3 version of this board and I must say Suse runs very well on it so I would assume OS/2 / eCS would as well.
ivan
I haven't ordered anything yet - still looking at finances.
A friend picked out the board and other hardware, as I know little about this. Windows XP (which I have on my system and also need to learn much more about how to use, like eCS) which may support it at some point. I've been doing more browsing in XP, as the pages load faster, and the browser doesn't crash as often as Seamonkey 2.x in eCS does (Seamonkey 1.x didn't.) Plus, I have sound and video play.
I have two IDE drives and two IDE CDs, so he selected an IDE controller card, and an external USB floppy, as I still have some stuff on floppies.
The onboard video is ATI, so SNAP should work.
I haven't messed with Uniaud yet.
Thank you for your help.