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Hi All!
So, I decided to buy an older Thinkpad as my ArcaOS machine. I sold my old T400 a couple of years ago when I switched to Apple laptops so I needed to get a new one. The first Thinkpad my vendor had to offer was a T410s that wasn't a complete success because the WLAN wasn't supported and there was an issue with graphics: windowed DOS or Win/OS2 sessions didn't work even with the suggested CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT modifications. So, I decided to sell the T410s. I really liked the specs and appearance of the machine BUT getting ArcaOS to run perfectly was the goal. Next I got a bigger pile of older and cheaper machines: T60, T61, T400, X200 and X201. According to Neil Waldhauer the T60 would be a perfect ArcaOS machine and X200 would also work but the WLAN card has to be changed a specific Intel one. I've tested T60 and X200 and the information seems to be correct. On T60 everything works out-of-the- box and with X200 everything works except for the WLAN. I also wanted to have a fast ArcaOS desktop (I have two licenses) so I bought a used Lenovo all-in-one: ThinkCenter M90z, however there are issues with the integrated graphics.
WLAN is a known issue for OS/2. When I still worked at Mensys I hired a Russian company to port the E1000 gigabit driver to OS/2 from Linux (Please note that I left Mensys in 2013 I am no longer associated with eCS in any way). Later this project moved on using a FreeBSD based driver library (I picked up this knowledge from David Azarewicz his Warpstock presentations. All of the newly ported NIC drivers are compiled FreeBSD kernel sources. The issue why wireless is taking so long is because the Linux port of the NIC drivers at Mensys at the time was cancelled duo to the fact that some things in the Linux sources changest to radically that David started basically from scratch with the FreeBSD code. The NIC driver I think are working pretty good for ethernet. But wifi is extremely more complicated that ethernet (wired chips are).
Other drivers seem to be doing pretty well. Arca Noae is working on a UNIAUD replacement audio driver and USB 3.0 seems to have progressed extremely far.
I really do not understand why you did go for example with a Thinkpad T540p.
http://www.blondeguy.com/computer/strobopeep.htmlAs Arca Noae said many times if you have an issue with installing ArcaOS open a ticket in
https://mantis.arcanoae.com.
Arca Noae is in the same position as I was at the time at Mensys. They do not have access to all hardware.
That said computer hardware has become more generic making it somewhat easier to support hardware. Its still a lot of work to develop the drivers. But once a driver works a lot of system should work.
If you have an issue open a ticket and follow these instructions:
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/reporting-problems-best-practices/Roderick Klein
President OS/2 VOICE