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Applications / Re: Fonts in Lotus Word Pro
« on: February 26, 2016, 05:25:26 pm »
Hi Neil,

that is what it looks like on my machine.


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Setup & Installation / Re: Thinkpad T450s & OS/2
« on: February 26, 2016, 08:04:31 am »
Hi Martin,

yes you can.  :)

I already updated some things and will do some more this afternoon (specs).

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Setup & Installation / Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T450s and OS/2
« on: February 25, 2016, 08:19:09 pm »
Thanks to Mike Kölling, LAN is supported with this Laptop as well!

Regarding your questions:

- with USB: in the Lenovo BIOS one have to Disable USB 3.0 support, then those are used as 2.0 Ports (but, as noticed, this is for Lenovo only available upt to the ..50 series (X250,T450,W550) but not for the brand new ..60 series!! (Same as with the possibilitiy to disable UEFI!!)

- I have 1536 MB as virtual Memory in config.sys. In fact I am using the QSINIT Loader to build a 8GB RAM DISK with the unused RAM above 4 GB  ;)


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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: February 11, 2016, 09:02:34 pm »
I tested this Adapter with success: http://www.amazon.de/Delock-USB-2-0-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B0009M1LFW/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1455220450&sr=8-9&keywords=delock+usb+LAN. It has the advantage that it does not block the second USB Adapter.

After installing Arca Noae Package Manager even AOO 4.1.2 starts without issues now  :)

Regarding speed: while watching a HTML5 Youtube Video it was about 1316kb/sec - please see the right upper corner in the second picture.

For me that's more than enough, even if the video struggles from time to time (may be because of FF24)  :)




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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: February 09, 2016, 02:27:01 pm »
Really, how the bios/firmware will recognise it to be a bootable device. So booting over LAN is only possible with additional USB floppy or other storage device.
More interesting would be common use in a LAN environment. How much throughput and how reliable for small/bigger files sent by ftp? Well, it's funny that this chinese crap works at all to some degree.

I am not interested in both as it does what I need - no need of sneakernet as you suggested   :) . Feel free to test it on your own if you are interested in. Adapters aren't that expensive, you can then easily answer all your deep questions by yourself.  ;)

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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: February 09, 2016, 07:54:39 am »
Hi,

@ onlineuser2: you can use the USB LAN adapter like any other LAN Adapter card, I followed the instructions of the readme and used MPTS. The setup of your personal network situation may vary and you might have to adjust it. There was one additional thing: the Adapter I use does not come with an own MAC Adress, fortunately one can adjust one by yourself, in MPTS while choosing the Adapter you can configure it and that's it.
One more great thing is that the adapter does not have to be plugged in from the Systemstart, if not - there is no error message during booting. Once you plug it in later the driver automatically does the configuration.
Regarding Speed: it seems to me to have no recognizeable delay in surfing the net, the Adapter is capeable of 100MBit but Holger writes in his Readme as well, that he thinks the speed is slower. I will try to test and report something.


@ Martin: the only thing one has to check is that the Adapter comes with an MCS7830 chipset. There seems to be a great variety of those, I am using this one here: http://www.startech.com/de/Netzwerk-IO/USB-Netzwerkadapter/Kompakter-USB-20-auf-10-100-MBits-Ethernet-Adapter~USB2106S. Just use "Moschip 7830 USB LAN Adapter" with the search engine you like and you will find some.
The Readme from Holger's Driver shows the Hardware ID of the Chipset:  Vendor 0x9710 and Product 0x7830

Notice: Holger Veith did update the driver that resides on hobbes, he made it more SMP friendly. I guess he will release this new version once he want to. The current free availiable driver there might not work that good on SMP systems.

I attach the Readme as well as a picture of the Hardware "at work"  :)

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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: February 08, 2016, 10:26:16 pm »
And YES - thanks to Holger Veiths Driver and his assistance I am writing this here form my Sony Vaio Pro 13  8)

Holgers Driver (the hardware does only cost a few dollar) one con handle USB -> LAN, and with the Adpater Doug suggested even USB -> LAN -> WLAN!!!

So - if you have a Laptop (like Mikes X250) and does not have an Network Connection - do not worry as long as you have a working USB Port.
Please read the thread in OS2.ORG as well, I will add more information there.

A big thank to Holger Veith!!!

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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: January 27, 2016, 04:17:32 pm »
Good luck for locating such specific device, or happy patching (line 770 of drvstub1.pas), compling and testing.

Nothing easier than this: Fortunately there are plenty of them availiable, just look for "USB Ethernet MCS7830", like in example:
http://www.startech.com/de/Netzwerk-IO/USB-Netzwerkadapter/Kompakter-USB-20-auf-10-100-MBits-Ethernet-Adapter~USB2106S. In addition this driver supports USB 2.0 and LAN up to 100MBit. There are more, and cheaper adapters around (from 5 to 10 Euro), just take care of the chipset MCS7830. I do not see a reason why I should compile something so far.

I already ordered one and will report  :)

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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: January 27, 2016, 10:13:06 am »
There's only one connectivity solution (besides using Kawasaki LSI compatible adapters with cable converter) left in this scenario. An USB to RS232 adapter, but that is limited to 460.8 Kbps. USB to RS485 adapters can handle up to double throughput, but here you need a custom driver and a special device at the destination port.
... however sneakernet should work at least. :-\

Fortunately this is wrong. Please follow the link in my first post, I saw by accident a more modern driver written by Holger Veith (Thanks to him!!) on hobbes.

I think I can close this case  :)

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Hardware / Re: Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: January 23, 2016, 05:48:25 pm »
Not really. The existing USB Ethernet driver is limited to a specific chipset (KAWASAKI LSI KL5KUSB101).
The driver even loads some firmware code onto the chip on system start which makes it specific to that chipset.
Additionally, this is NOT a WLAN Ethernet driver. It's limited to (wired) LAN.

Hi Lars,

thank you for your answer, I was not looking for WLAN, the Sony Vaio Pro 13 does not come with a LAN Adapter at all and I wondered if there is a way to start with this here - that then I could use with the Tablet Samsung Serie 7 Slate es well, that does not have a LAN (except in Docking Station) port - and the WLAN Hardware is not supported as well.

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Hardware / Is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver?
« on: January 23, 2016, 12:59:42 am »
I am wondering: is it possible to update the USBEthernet Driver to Support newer devices?

Please see my post here (using Google translator):

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.os2.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D2%26t%3D866&edit-text=

Thanks in advance!

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Games / Re: Quake/2 now broken???
« on: January 12, 2016, 01:20:03 pm »
If it is the DOS Version:

I run DOS Games with DOSBOX; there you can specify (in the config.file) the size of the Fullscreen resolution.

My Sony Vaio Pro 13 does have native OS/2 1920X1080 resolution, but my DOSBOX fullscreen (and it is then the "full screen") does have only 800X600 Resolution or 1024X738, as needed.

So I can play i.e. "Cusader, no remorse", "Bioforge", "Gene Machine", "Noctropolis", "The riddle of Master LU", "The Dig"....

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Article Discussions / Re: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?
« on: December 06, 2015, 09:47:54 pm »
Reference: [Arca Noae] Checked your disk lately?

It is a great milestone for DFSee to support GPT, but I'm still thinking how useful will be that for OS2-eCS-BlueLion installation.

I'm guessing that it should be useful for someone to boot from USB/CD and with DFSee try to repartition and already partitioned HDD (by Windows or Linux) and resize partition to fit OS2-eCS-BlueLion. (and of course use all the great features of DFSee on a GPT drive) But once you boot the Installer will it recognize the installation partition on GPT or after installing the OS, will it boot?


One of my plans with my "own OS/2 distribution" was to include DFSEE and QSINIT in the boot process.

QSINIT has some kind of "EFI" support included, if that could be activated with OS/2 one would need a disk partitioning tool in the next stage of the OS/2 installation process. For this DFSEE is (and was allways) for me the one and only choice - if DFSEE is able to handle GPT now - that's the best news to have in case one would like follow this road.

As I succeded with QSINIT (integrating it in the boot process of the DVD, NOT EFI!!!) I failed with adding DFSEE to the boot image.

Some time another plan came to my mind:

The best (and easiest, fastest and so on) way to install was

- NOT with Floppy Disk
- NOT from CD
- NOT from DVD

-> it was and is copying an image that has been cloned before with DFSEE on the HDD

So, If I would have a chance (and time and resources...) to produce a new OS/2 distribution I would:

- create an USB Stick that boots with QSINIT
- that includes DFSEE that is integrated in the QSINIT Menue
- that includes an "Universal OS/2 clone" (I do have one for me, that has been cloned with DFSEE, and uses QSINIT as Bootsystem/Loader)
- that can be restored then on the HDD of the PC

I tried something similar with a Linux System on USB Stick, but using DFSEE with it was really hard (for me).

Anyway, I am really looking forward to see what Arca Noae will present us during the next year, and If I can be of any help I would appreciate to do so. I am happy that there are people moving on and pushing things forward - and do have a plan. And this is exactly the other way round compared to what Mensys did during the last 5 years.

When it comes to JFS I would like to add: I am working with HPFS386 as the file system of the Boot partition (the clone) for years now.

When it comes to OS/2 Voice I would like to add that I (even if this is the largest OS/2 User group in the world) have no other point of contact than knowing that this organisation organizes Warpstock Europe (as Roderick Klein do now at OS/2 Voice what he has done before at Mensys) and that they sponsor some things. When it comes to "daily business" I personally do benefit much more from the person Martin mentioned, in addition to himself and those running the german os2.de forum. Loosing the forums here at OS2world or OS2.de or the "OS/2 Warp News and rumours" of Steve Wendt or hobbes (and all the other OS/2 Sites around) would hit me really.





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Events / OS/2 User Meeting Cologne 2016
« on: December 01, 2015, 02:16:57 pm »
Room and date are fix for the 4th Anual OS/2 User Meeting in Cologne!

Youthhostel Cologne-Riehl (as usual), Saturday, 26th of November 2016

You can follow the German thread here (using Google Translator):

https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.os2.org%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D14%26t%3D804&edit-text=

Cheers

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