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Messages - Neil Waldhauer

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Virtualization / Re: ATof - Usage - Programmer's IDEs and Editors
« on: December 11, 2023, 03:41:47 pm »
I found Visual Slickedit to be superior to Visual Studio years ago, even on Windows. Now Visual Studio supports languages that ArcaOS doesn't, but that still isn't relevant. Notepad++ and Visual Studio are likely lacking features to support OS/2 and the Workplace Shell.


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Hardware / Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T14s 1st Gen - 20T1
« on: December 07, 2023, 02:48:25 pm »
My experience with Lenovo Thinkpad T14 was that it had an RJ45 Ethernet port. Perhaps all models do not have it. I had it before ArcaOS 5.1 came out, but after all the betas expired, so I did not take a testlog.

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I suggest that you post the entire testlog. It has other interesting information.

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Utilities / Re: touch?
« on: November 27, 2023, 03:23:41 pm »
if you have touch, perhaps you also have which? What is the result of

Code: [Select]
which touch
?

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I would like to see modern WiFi on ArcaOS. The WiFi needs to come on automatically. if it can't connect to the last known access point, then it needs to find one from the previously used points. If it can't find one of those, then it can allow the user to do something.

David A started to work on a driver arcitecture to be able to port drivers from FreeBSD for this or something like that, right? Didn't seem to be easy, but a basic driver for a certain chipset would be intreseting to see.
I haven't seen if there where progress, or if bumps in the road has appeared.

A bigger matter than the driver is to manage connecting to access points and managing security. David had commented that the network driver was done.
Focused on the way ArcaOS/2 behave to connect to access points and handle security is of course the next step.

Where are those drivers for wifi?
I've only seen drivers for ethernet.

Based a presentation from Warpstock 2021, I imagine they are in the AN labs. If you have a WiFi driver without the ability to connect to an access point, I'm not sure what use it would be. I don't see AN releasing a network driver that can't find a network.

I also think that XWLan was going to be the starting point for writing that software. I don't know if there has been any progress in the past two years. In a way, I'd prefer that GL.iNet was the starting point, but either one is a big project.

I think that USB Ethernet adapters took the same developer resources, and perhaps offers another route to WiFi support.

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I would like to see modern WiFi on ArcaOS. The WiFi needs to come on automatically. if it can't connect to the last known access point, then it needs to find one from the previously used points. If it can't find one of those, then it can allow the user to do something.

David A started to work on a driver arcitecture to be able to port drivers from FreeBSD for this or something like that, right? Didn't seem to be easy, but a basic driver for a certain chipset would be intreseting to see.
I haven't seen if there where progress, or if bumps in the road has appeared.

A bigger matter than the driver is to manage connecting to access points and managing security. David had commented that the network driver was done.

I want to see memory managed better, so that more memory is available to the system. Modern computers seen to have less memory available to OS/2 than 15 year old computers. Virtual Box offers 3.5 GB, better than any hardware ArcaOS that I have. The RAM disk in ArcaOS is admirable. I'd like to see it extended so that programs had some access to it more directly than file i/o to the RAM drive.

Modern applications seem to be designed to use up a lot of memory, something that follow over and can't be avoided when ported to this platform.
Wouldn't mind if someone could do magic how ArcaOS/2 use memory and pass on to applications.

Regards

I think you misunderstood my point. The hardware is taking more and more memory from the 32-bit address space. Of the 4 GB available, 2 GB or less remains on most recent systems. By comparison, Virtual Box leaves OS/2 nearly the entire 4 GB space.

You are right, though, about memory-hungry programs. I don't know how much longer one Chrome browser tab will fit into 32-bit address space.

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If you have ArcaOS 5.1, then you still have a software subscription. Go to the Arca Noae website, and open an support incident. Read the Wiki (the link is on the page to file a support incident. Someone will help you through.

If you were not under paid support, I'd be in favor of trying to solve the problem here.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 at Winworld?
« on: November 23, 2023, 03:24:56 pm »
They aren't legal, but they are also widely used.

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Rewriting Presentation Manager and OS/2 Video drawing to support OpenGL may be beyond our means.

Writing OpenGL to create a surface that is only used by Qt or even only used by the web browser might be easier. Leave the rest of OS/2 alone. It does not expect any OpenGl features anyway. What do you think?

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Networking / Re: arcmapper
« on: November 15, 2023, 09:30:31 pm »
Pardon me for jumping in. I have the same problem connecting to my ArcaOS-based SAMBA server.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it gives the message "Failed to establish 1 connection". Then Details says "Failed to mount "GARBOPEEP\D" on "R:\". The specified server cannot perform the requested operation. My systems use DHCP. I have saved the password.

Rather than using the startup folder to restore connections, I have tcpexit.cmd with "F:\USR\BIN\CONNECT.EXE /restore"

Neil does this seem to work for you?  Whatever changed for me came with 5.1.  I have the exact error msg's you are getting so it appears to be a timing issue?

Rick

No. It works sometimes.

I'll bet it has something to do with credentials. You know, there isn't any documentation on setting up users for Samba, so did I do it right?

I guess if it works even once, it can't really be bad users on the server side.

I had no luck figuring out the \usr\bin\net command. It seems to try NETBIOS first.

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Networking / Re: arcmapper
« on: November 15, 2023, 03:24:45 pm »
Pardon me for jumping in. I have the same problem connecting to my ArcaOS-based SAMBA server.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes it gives the message "Failed to establish 1 connection". Then Details says "Failed to mount "GARBOPEEP\D" on "R:\". The specified server cannot perform the requested operation. My systems use DHCP. I have saved the password.

Rather than using the startup folder to restore connections, I have tcpexit.cmd with "F:\USR\BIN\CONNECT.EXE /restore"

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Hardware / Re: Using a UPS to save SSDs
« on: November 10, 2023, 01:55:05 am »

Quote
Seemingly it comes with two types of USB-3 cable, which is handy and probably means they can cope.

Cables don't mean much. Adapters are available.


A friend who would know told me that a USB-3 cable has more computing power than the Apollo Lunar Lander (which landed using computer guidance)

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Events / Re: Warpstock 2023 - Presentations
« on: November 05, 2023, 03:04:56 pm »
How to manage users on SAMBA would be a good part of this topic.

Why do users go "extinct"
How to delete and re-add users.
How does kLIBC user manager interact with SAMBA.

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Setup & Installation / Re: UEFI: Dual Boot - Windows 11 and ArcaOS 5.1
« on: November 03, 2023, 02:21:10 pm »
Rich, your instructions do work, and I can boot ArcaOS 5.0 directly from rEFInd.
I can also boot ArcaOS 5.1 directly as I did before.

As you pointed out, DOS window does not work in ArcaOS 5.1, and it never worked in ArcaOS 5.0. This is fine for me, as I rarely use DOS.

Just to confirm: "success" means you can see whatever messages are displayed during bootup and that you can open full-screen DOS and OS/2 sessions. Is that what you see on both the 5.1 and legacy installs? And yes, if DOS windows didn't work under 5.0, they shouldn't work under this arrangement because you've reverted to 5.0-style video support.

I can see bootup messages (but not the ArcaOS logo). They are a different size, but the messages look like I expect ArcaOS while booting. And I also agree that DOS now functions the same for both 5.0 and 5.1.

I guess it's a trade -- DOS support for boot selection. I'll probably switch back once this thread settles down.

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Setup & Installation / Re: UEFI: Dual Boot - Windows 11 and ArcaOS 5.1
« on: November 03, 2023, 02:22:31 am »
Rich, your instructions do work, and I can boot ArcaOS 5.0 directly from rEFInd.
I can also boot ArcaOS 5.1 directly as I did before.

As you pointed out, DOS window does not work in ArcaOS 5.1, and it never worked in ArcaOS 5.0. This is fine for me, as I rarely use DOS.





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