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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« Last post by Neil Waldhauer on November 10, 2025, 02:23:23 pm »
I have contacted two driver developers about making new OS/2 drivers, and both were positive about it, but both refused to consider a WiFi driver. If you take a close look at the open-source GL.iNet travel routers, it will become clear why that is.

It is a big job, even considering that you have the GL.iNet source code.
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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« Last post by Dave Yeo on November 09, 2025, 07:47:54 pm »
I looked into doing just that. At least with my phone, a 2022 Moto Edge, the share network presents itself as a wireless dongle. Forget the ID but it was barely supported in Linux and unsupported in the BSD's. I was hoping it would present as an Ethernet dongle. Perhaps other phone models do, with a supported ID.
The problem with WiFi adapters is the radio, namely turning it on and off. Also need a software stack to handle authorization etc. Unluckily there is no standard when it comes to the radio's so every WiFi adapter needs its own code for enabling the radio.
As for Arca Noae, I'd guess they just don't have the resources to do this stuff. I can't imagine that they're getting rich doing this. After overhead, paying IBM their share and such, there likely isn't that much profit in a license sale and it's hard to imagine that they're selling that many licenses.
Plus we're getting left behind in this 64bit universe. I personally think it is pretty amazing how far AOS has come.
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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« Last post by Remy on November 09, 2025, 01:56:29 pm »
About traveling with a laptop and wireless, an other nice feature would be to be able to share the smartphone 4G/4G+/5G data connection using an usb cable between the laptop and the smartphone (enable share network)  ::)
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Hardware / Re: [Solved] Xircom - PCMCIA Ethernet - Thinkpad - OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
« Last post by Marc Galloway on November 08, 2025, 08:14:20 pm »
Sure, no problem at all. Protocol.ini attached.
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Events / Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« Last post by Sigurd Fastenrath on November 08, 2025, 07:44:19 am »
Translated with Google from nativ German:

ArcaOS is dead to me.

The final nail in the coffin was Lewis's statement about the Wi-Fi driver in the latest Warpstock post. Of course, I knew it was unlikely to be released, but what really mattered was the way he explained and presented it.

The gist of it, as I understand it, is: "Who needs a Wi-Fi driver? We have LAN-to-Wi-Fi solutions, mini routers, etc. So what?"

I call that—excuse my language—pathetic!


ArcaNoae has been working independently on this for almost nine years. Drivers were developed for the eComstation even before that, and they've always pointed out, albeit with decreasing intensity each year, "We hear you, the Wi-Fi driver is on our list, etc., etc." It's perfectly legitimate for you to decide what you develop, but pretending for years about a development that was never seriously intended (there's no other conclusion to be drawn) and will never come to pass is one thing; quite another is that those who hoped for it are now being dismissed in an obsequious manner with a "What do you actually want?" attitude. Brilliant, it doesn't get any better or more customer-oriented than that!

Many laptops no longer even come with a LAN port, meaning that Wi-Fi might mean: USB to LAN to Wi-Fi, i.e., two or three adapters. In principle, this works, but practically speaking, such a solution is utterly worthless for "mobile use." Just try setting something like that up while traveling on a train or plane.

The same old arguments—that there are more important drivers, because the system has to run first before you can even use Wi-Fi—don't help here either. Because without a decent internet connection, I don't need native ArcaOS anyway, and in a VM I'm not interested in all the driver fuss around it.

Ultimately, this type of internet access is obsolete anyway, since there's no current browser for OS/2, and—Dimitry, please forgive me—probably never will be.

I'm just glad I didn't renew the subscription; not another cent is going there.

I'm also very happy with version 5.11 in German on my ASUS ROG Zephyrus. The only possible improvements would be a Wi-Fi driver (0% chance), a Bluetooth driver (0% chance), a decent SNAP graphics driver (0% chance), and—admittedly very specific to this notebook—an enhanced sound driver (0% chance—Paul Smedley has already done a great job here; the sound itself works, but only very quietly, since the six internal speakers are controlled by an additional chip that isn't supported by UNIAUD. But even Linux Mint needed a few kernel revisions before it worked). Likewise, the chances of utilizing more "lower RAM" are exactly 0%, but the 2.4GB available on the Zephyrus is sufficient for the fastest OS/2 I've seen so far. Since I don't have any use for it, I never have more than one memory-intensive application open anyway.

So, for me, ArcaOS is history, OS/2 is definitely dead, but I'll keep ArcaOS looking like OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 running in their current state as long as they still run natively on newer hardware, just for fun.

Otherwise, I can only recommend looking into Linux. To my surprise, I was able to recreate my entire private Windows environment relatively quickly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, and all for free. There's also a large community behind it that can help with almost any problem.

Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Hardware / Re: [Solved] Xircom - PCMCIA Ethernet - Thinkpad - OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
« Last post by Lars on November 07, 2025, 03:20:20 pm »
Thank you very much for your offer but that won`t be necessary.
Glad you got it working. Which means I can now update the existing package with the updated .NIF file.
By the way, could you attach your protocol.ini, just out of curiosity ?
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General Discussion / Re: Spam Bots
« Last post by Pete on November 07, 2025, 02:23:10 pm »
Hi Martin

If BadBot Protection displays the "Checking..." page here it will not load os2world until javascript is enabled.

It also seems to affect other websites ie if I load  https://theartofsound.net/forum/  after getting the "Checking..." message on os2world a "Javascript Required" page is displayed instead of loading the website. If os2world does not show the "Checking..." message there is no "Javascript Required" message displayed when loading theartofsound website.


Regards

Pete



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Applications / Re: How to modify the border width of win-os2 seamless window?
« Last post by KO Myung-Hun on November 07, 2025, 01:54:49 pm »
Ok, I've found the cause for the border width being too thick. It's PM Downloader. PM Downloader was in XWorkplace Startup Folder. So when disabling XWorkplace, PM Downloader does not start and the border width of WIN-OS2 seamless window becomes normal.

More precisely, if PM Downloader has too many downloaded items, this problem occurs. Cleaning the item list fixes this problem. This seems to be a memory corruption problem.

Conversely, with using this it would be possible to modify the border width of WIN-OS2 seamless window. But it is not worth doing it.
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Applications / Re: How to modify the border width of win-os2 seamless window?
« Last post by KO Myung-Hun on November 07, 2025, 01:14:58 pm »
I've found a clue. If disabling XWP v1.0.17, the border width is back to 5 from 28.

At least, XWP is related to this problem, and I've found the clue to fix too thick border width of WIN-OS2 seamless window.
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Hardware / Re: [Solved] Xircom - PCMCIA Ethernet - Thinkpad - OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
« Last post by Marc Galloway on November 06, 2025, 08:13:07 pm »
Driver and NIF file worked perfect! Once installed I used the below settings.

1. Adapter memory address: D100
2. Adapter IO address: 320
3. Adapter IRQ: 10

Can I send a donation your way for the help?
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