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Hardware / Re: New laptop for Arca os
« on: November 14, 2017, 10:45:11 pm »
Are you thinking of the A12 soc processors or a full Ryzen and separate gpu?

Although the Ryzen and A12 specs haver 4 usb 3 ports on the processor the supporting chipsets allow up to 6 usb 2 ports with varying numbers of usb 3 and 3.1 ports.

So far I have been unable to use any of the usb 3 ports - fore some reason there doesn't appear to be any backward compatibility built in.  The usb 2 ports work without any problems.

Although I don't have a notebook with any of those processors I have several mini-ITX mother boards with AM4 processors (mainly A12 but I did build a system with a Ryzen 5 1600).  The Gigabyte board with the Ryzen 5 will not fully install ArcaOS even with the Uefi set to legacy mode but this is a board that is designed specifically for win 10 - you have to jump through hoops to install win 7.  The other boards work if you are careful with the Uefi settings and make sure that legacy is set for most things and make sure the ahci implementation will work whith the os2ahci.add driver (asmedia ahci will not).

You also need to remember that the laptop manufacturers are most likely to use usb3 rather than usb 2 (external usb2 devices work on usb 3 but the operating system must have the drivers).

A google search might give you more information than looking on Amazon.

Good luck.
 

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Setup & Installation / Spell check in EPM on ArcaOS
« on: November 14, 2017, 04:37:28 pm »
I assume it is just me but when I went to spell check a document in EPM the proof/spell check section of the 'Options' drop down menu were missing as were the 'Dictionary file' and 'Personal dictionary' entries in the 'Paths' section of the settings notebook - very strange since they are in EPM on all my pre ArcaOS machines.

After a bit of investigation I found that my installing IBMWORKS way back in the early Warp 4 days gave me OSLEXAM.DLL in \os2\dll and UK.DIC and USER.DIC in \os2.  These are required for EPM to do proofing and spell checking (the UK.DIC is country specific and I assume there is a US.DIC as well as the other countries supported by IBMWORKS).

I don't know if there is supposed to be the OSLEXAM.DLL (or its equivalent) installed in ArcaOS or not, it wasn't on my install but I now have proofing and spell checking back on EPM.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Samba server on AOS
« on: November 14, 2017, 04:12:49 pm »
As an addendum to this I can share all partitions on each drive letter EXCEPT the drive with the samba server on it - that one only displays the samba directory yet it is setup the same as all the others.

I am obviously missing something here but what it is I don't know.

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Polls / Re: Compatibility with OS/2
« on: November 06, 2017, 10:08:57 pm »
Rick, I don't think there is a definitive answer because any answer depends on usage.

For example, the manufacturing plants that my old company looks after are using OS/2 to run the machine tool controllers, all of which are 32bit programs and physical PCI cards.  Almost all of the computers now use 64bit processors (the remaining few should be upgraded by the end of the year).

In that instance, as long as a 64bit OS/2 clone will still run 32bit OS/2 programs and act in the same way as OS/2 does at the moment (high stability, up running for several months at a time and operators don't need retraining) I think the company could sell them on the upgrade with little or no certification problems.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Samba server on AOS
« on: November 06, 2017, 09:49:29 pm »
Thanks Silvan,

For some reason 'nmbd bind explicit broadcast was set to Yed in the nice new smb.conf, when I edited it to No, and restarted the server it now appears on other machines.

Now all I have to work out is how to share the various server partitions.

 

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Setup & Installation / Re: Samba server on AOS
« on: November 06, 2017, 04:29:07 pm »
Hi Silvan.

There shouldn't be any netbios over tcp running - I didn't install it.

The log shows a problem with opening a socket on 192.168.0.255.  The problem might be that the dhcp server is on 192.168.0.254.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Samba server on AOS
« on: November 06, 2017, 12:16:03 pm »
Thanks both of you.

Andy, I followed your outline (it appeared simpler) and it appears to work.  I say appears because the server does not appear on any of my other computers which rather defeats the object of running it.

I do see that only smbd.exe is running, see attachment.  Since nmbd.exe is also listed am I correct in assuming it too should be running and if so what have I missed?

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Setup & Installation / Samba server on AOS
« on: November 05, 2017, 02:00:50 pm »
Has anyone managed to get samba server working on ArcaOS?  If so can you please give me the correct incantation and number of chicken entrales I must sacrifice to do so.

OK, the last might be a joke but it does not change the requirement in any way.  The readme says nothing, the samba-howto-collection might but I think it would be better to have it as a pdf document and the Netlabs instructions seem rather irrelevant to what gets installed on ArcaOS at initial install time.

So far no matter what I do I cant get smbd.exe or nmbd.exe to run therefore samba server is not running.

I would normally assume that when software is installed it will be in a working state, maybe not at full potential but at least working. 

I have tried reinstalling ArcaOS several times just in case I had missed something - still no working samba server yet the ArcaMapper samba client works without problems which allows me to connect to the samba servers of my NAS boxes (setting up the SMB on the NAS boxes involved just ticking a box to activate it and another box to indicate user/s - if it is that simple what is wrong with our version?).
 

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General Discussion / Re: ES/2 open source OS/2 kernel
« on: November 04, 2017, 10:28:17 am »
As you say 'A fully open-source modern OS/2 running in 64-bits on modern hardware would be a thing of beauty.' I couldn't agree more.

Unfortunately I am a hardware engineer (now retired) so there is not much that I can do to help with the development other than testing whatever you produce.

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General Discussion / Re: ES/2 open source OS/2 kernel
« on: November 04, 2017, 01:25:04 am »
Keep up the good work.

When you get to the testing stage I have several new mini itx motherboard computers with AMD 2 and 4 core APUs as well as a couple of AMD multi processor, multi core HP server boxes that I can make available if that would help.

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A little bit off topic but has anyone tried to use snap or panorama to drive a hdmi monitor? 

Several video cards now have DVI-D and HDMI outputs and no VGA I was wondering if it was possible to have a hdmi  monitor driven by one of those cards.

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Setup & Installation / Re: How do I ...?
« on: October 24, 2017, 02:19:13 pm »
Sorry for asking all the questions but my 40 odd years of dealing with clients that have problems has made me look for very clear statements of the problem, what happened and what was done to the time they started asking questions.

In your case when you mentioned OS/2 2 my first thought was how did that work with an SSD drive - I've never had it on anything but a 486 and a very small hard disk.  I then realised you must mean eCS 2.x which I have never used.

Regarding recognition of USB MSD devices you may need to use the latest drivers from Lars that are on hobbes (usbdrv219.zip).  You should also check your config.sys to be sure there are the correct number and type of USB drivers and you have enough removables listed to cover what you expect to use (don't forget any built in card readers on the computer because they are classed as removables as far as OS/2 & eCS are concerned).

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Setup & Installation / Re: How do I ...?
« on: October 24, 2017, 11:32:28 am »
I am trying to visualise what you have but am finding it difficult.

Am I correct in thinking the SSD was your boot drive and you have replaced that and done a fresh install of OS/2 on it?

Am I also correct in thinking you have a second drive that has your data on it and this is the drive you are trying to save?

I don't understand what you are saying about USB.  If you have reinstalled OS/2 then reading USB MSDs should be available without problems.

If you are trying to restore anything from the old SSD and it had a catastrophic failure all I can advise you to do is download the manufacturers disk recovery tools and hope for the best.  Generally catastrophic failure of SSDs means you toss them into the scrap bin.

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Setup & Installation / Re: How do I ...?
« on: October 23, 2017, 11:25:27 pm »
What exactly are you trying to do?

You say you have a new SSD disk and I assume it is installed in place of the old one.  If that is the case have you run chkdsk with /f on each volume of your data disk?

Have you used DFSee to look at your data disk to see if there are any problems?

Have you used the advanced LVM manager to set the volume drive letters?

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Applications / Re: Applications OS/2 Needs
« on: October 20, 2017, 03:15:51 pm »
Depending on how much image editing you want to do there are two simple editors that do what your examples do - Embellish and Phototiger.  Both are now freeware.

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