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Hi

Why not open a ticket?
As I don't think it will be resolved here.
Its allways better to open a ticket.
As then the maintainer reads it, and he can answered you.

Greetz Tellie

1000% agreed with Tellie. Developers complain they get no feedback and in genereal users complain about the quality of the sofftware.
So please open a ticket.

Roderick

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Hardware / Re: Serial Port Shenanigans - ArcaOS 5.1.1 on a Lenovo M920t
« on: January 29, 2026, 12:35:58 pm »
Greetings all, new to the forums here but been in the computing game since I was in grade school a few decades ago.

Anyways, the hardware:
Lenovo M920t (i7-8700 3.2Ghz 16gb)
nvme 1tb drive
sata dvdr
external USR Sportster 33.6k

Burned my ArcaOS iso to phyical media and dropped it in the drive to partition then install - all good, mostly. Save there's no COM1 - instead I have a SERIAL_0 attached to the ISA bus. Right. Well at least it's got the right address and interrupt..

Anyway, since this is primarily for reasons of a nostalgia driven trip to the times of yore when I ran a WWIV 4.24 dial up BBS, I forge on and start playing with SIO v1, which bombs out and requires a little offline surgery of the config.sys to get the system running again. Okay, on to SIO v2. No physical com port at all, 4 uart dummies and 4 vmodems all appear per default settings for SIO though, so progress?

Okay, maybe I need the CSM on to make it play nice? Nope. Same status. Though I did discover that sometimes a cold boot can make it come up properly under SIO v2, but that's more a fluke then a norm.

Anyway, introduction and background out of the way... Anyone have some pointers on where to poke? At present I have no critical data on the system and can do a full system wipe if needed. Also have a couple empty pcie slots that could take a real serial card if there's one that's known to play nice?

Hello,

This is all from the top of my memory. You might be better of using the the PSCOM.SYS driver that comes with Arca Noae LLC. And not SIO2K drivers. Saldy the sources best I can recall are lost and the driver TRAPS are known. Try using PSCOMS.SYS with /F.

Serial_0 is correct. Type mode com1 on a CMD command line that will tell you if the serial port is working.
The CSM should not effect is a serial port works yes or no.

Best regards,
Roderick Klein

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Games / Re: DTA (DTAudio) and DOS Sound Blaster audio
« on: January 27, 2026, 08:06:43 pm »
Hello

Roderick is working hard to try to find a ASM developer to help on the "DOS VDM - Sound Blaster audio" support. (DTAudio).

I also support him, since I also want to have the audio under DOS VDM to complete the "Retro-Gaming Machine" !

Here are some link that would be nice to share with developer that may want to help.

Code: [Select]
VDD source code sample
- https://github.com/OS2World/DRV-VDDs-GoSierra
- https://github.com/OS2World/DEV-SAMPLES-DRV-DEMODD

There are some Assembly projects that may provide some inspiration:

VSB - Virtual Sound Blaster  and TEMU
- https://github.com/volkertb/temu-vsb
- http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/dos-virtual-soundblaster--vsb202.zip
- http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/dos-virtual-sound-blaster--vsb-src.zip

VSBHDA - Sound Blaster emulation for DOS
- https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA

Any other VDD source code samples that you may know?

Regards

Most likely the developer will need to use a DDK possibly to compile these sources from Martin Kiewitz as the IBM DDK has some LIB files that might be needed and header files.
But I am not certain. Also most of these sound blaster emulators might not even offer what we need. This all comes from my memory from about 20 years ago. So I could get it wrong.

From what i recall the main vsound.sys should be working to emulate a soundblaster 16/Pro or Soundblaster. I have never been able to even get a compiled VSOUND.SYS to work and show a soundblaster card in a DOS game. From what I recall vsound.sys already should emulate a Soundblaster 16 (only audio, no OPL3 yet).

Vsound.sys is client driver that talks to DTA.SYS. But the older version of the DTA.SYS that we have might not work. I do not know.

But somebody will also have to look at VCOMPAT.SYS and VDMA.SYS so everything works inside the VM. So its much more complicated puzzle.
And knowledde of x86 assembly will be very handy.

Roderick

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Storage / Re: Does anyone have a copy of the 386 HPFS Upgrade for WSeB?
« on: December 21, 2025, 06:02:48 pm »
The downside is that you can not load more drivers + kernel that use more then 16MB of RAM. Otherwhise your system may trap.
So if you load the ACPI PSD, UNIAUD, ETC ETC. You quickly run to that limit.

Roderick

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Networking / Re: Network setup for VirtualBox
« on: December 18, 2025, 11:22:01 pm »
I've been using ArcaOS running under VirtualBox running on a Windows 11 host. Setting up the network is pretty confusing.

A laptop has a WiFi card and wired ethernet. I can connect either one to my network. I set up Adapter 1 as an Intel Pro/1000 MT desktop (NAT) so that it can get TCP/IP from either laptop interface.

But I want NetBIOS, too. I don't think I can get that from NAT. NAT is TCP/IP-only as far as I know. So I defined Adapter 2 as PCnet-FAST III (Bridged to the Ethernet interface on the laptop.) That only gives me NetBIOS over Ethernet, but that will be adequate. So far, so good.

But now I move to Linux host, and NetBIOS does not work. In fact, I'm not at all sure any Adapter 2 function works on Linux. Perhaps I should ask over in the VirtualBox forum, but there are more OS/2 experts here.

How are you implementing NetBIOS under VirtualBox?

You do not implement NETBIOS under Virtualbox best I can tell. But also do not use NAT as Netbios cannot be routed via NAT.  Also use the E1000 NIC not the PCnet=fast driver, that OS/2 driver is pretty bad. Or can you not define two E1000 NIC's ?

Roderick

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Utilities / Re: Booting OS/2 with an Animation
« on: December 18, 2025, 02:05:55 pm »
Hello

ArcaOS is based in OS/2 Warp 4.52, and it does not support animations on the boot procedure. I think this old hack will not work today.

But I don't know if something can be worked out for the UEFI boot, but I guess there are other development priorities for ArcaOS.

Dreaming in technicolor here, I once saw a Linux that had a nice boot process. Just the boot logo animation and later the desktop. but you can optionally press "Esc" and remove the logo and see all the stuff running on the back, until the desktop is show on the screen.

Regards

The ArcaOS UEFI loader does support true color PNG files. But that is just it.
It seems you would need this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
If this can be put in the UEFI loader even at all.

Roderick

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Applications / Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« on: December 18, 2025, 01:53:24 pm »
Hello Roderick

If you are around, don't forget to send a news with the public announcement of the OS2VOICE RPM !!
I would recommend if you can list all the software that you have on "release" for that announcement.

Regards

I have still been having some health issue's. Hopefully get back to this at the end of the year.

Roderick

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Applications / Re: RSJ CDwriter question.
« on: December 18, 2025, 01:52:51 pm »
Hi,

Finally I get RSJ CDwriter working.
Less is more is not spend on ArcaOS, I've got a 64Gb partition and RSJ 6.03 won't work.
After increasing the partition to 8Gb it works!

Now I have a perhaps simple question; How can I burn an *.iso to a CD/DVD?
I just forgot it and I can't find it in the manual.

Grts,
Adrian

I would really be interested if its true that RSJ does not work on a partition bigger then 64 GB. Its possible but highly doubt your observation is correct. As I think you can also make files bigger with it then 2GB (burn ISO files) with RSJ.
At Mensys we used RSJ extensively on large partitions to burn ISO files.

Was this on a HPFS or JFS partition that this happened ? And it failed what error message did you get ?

Best regards,

Roderick Klein

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Storage / Re: Does anyone have a copy of the 386 HPFS Upgrade for WSeB?
« on: December 17, 2025, 07:53:55 pm »
Thanks Kim,

Where is this screenshot from - is this from your own collection?

Are you able to expand on what any of those additional items are?

Thanks,
Richard.

Just be carefull that you cannot use earlyminit=true with HPFS386.

Roderick

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Virtualization / Re: Win-OS/2 - Open vbesvga.drv video driver
« on: December 14, 2025, 09:12:39 pm »
Hello

At the testing mail list, Lewis told me that ArcaOS  cannot recommend this driver and will not use any of the code. They don't specify why, but I'm guessing it does not detail the license of use and for commercial software this has to be clear as water.

I was suggested to open a ticket so they can try to solve the issue.
The ticket is right here for people that wants to follow it:
- mantis.arcanoae.com/view.php?id=3855

Regards

The WIN/OS2 driver for full screen and WIN/OS2 seamless session from IBM uses GRADD calls somehow and not BIOS calls. This route is possibly more stable then using the VESA based graphics driver. The other issue is that for UEFI boot with ArcaOS the video VESA BIOS is limited in functionality compared to a BIOS system. And this seems to even less receommend by Dixie.

Roderick

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 can't install on Acer Aspire.
« on: December 08, 2025, 06:29:50 pm »
Hi,

Changed the UEFI and disable secure boot.
Acer starts, boots from USB install stick.
When choosing to install on harddisk and start the installer it gives an error that "config.sys is not found on B:"
It doesn't matter if you choose default installation or own menu.
Any idea's?

I think it does somewhere very early in the boot that stops working. As suggest first try a new USB stick and if that does not work open a ticket at Arca Noae.
As we are most likely not able to help you here.

Question does it unzip the ZIP file files (BIN files).

Roderick

Hi, I'm using a Kingston 8Gb USB 3.xx stick. This works perfect to install ArcaOS 5.1.1 on a Lenovo T60.
I will try a 64Gb Sandisk USB 3.xx witch USB A en C.
For ArcaOS this a enormous sticks.
Size does matter, unfortunately not for ArcaOS.

Gras,
Adrian

Take into account the T60 is BIOS boot and your Acer laptop is UEFI boot. The USB stick supports both boot methods.

ROderick Klein

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Storage / Re: Does anyone have a copy of the 386 HPFS Upgrade for WSeB?
« on: December 02, 2025, 06:47:47 am »
Hi Richard.

If you want to add Workspace On-Demand to your list that will be great.
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=IBM_WorkSpace_On-Demand

The lastest version of IBM WorkSpace On-Demand for OS/2 was version 2.0. I always wanted to make it run, but it never worked for me. The idea would be to have one server with Wsfeb + WorkSpace On-Demand, and have one dumb workstation (thin PC) that will boot OS/2 Warp 4 desktop from the server.

Regards

Getting workspace on demand setup is not an easy task. That is what at the time got Serenity Systems the OEM contract for OS/2. Kim Cheung made Wisemachine. Orginally it was made to make workspace on demand setup a drag and drop.

Roderick

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Setup & Installation / Re: ArcaOS 5.1.1 can't install on Acer Aspire.
« on: November 23, 2025, 12:37:36 pm »
Hi,

Changed the UEFI and disable secure boot.
Acer starts, boots from USB install stick.
When choosing to install on harddisk and start the installer it gives an error that "config.sys is not found on B:"
It doesn't matter if you choose default installation or own menu.
Any idea's?

I think it does somewhere very early in the boot that stops working. As suggest first try a new USB stick and if that does not work open a ticket at Arca Noae.
As we are most likely not able to help you here.

Question does it unzip the ZIP file files (BIN files).

Roderick

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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« on: November 21, 2025, 12:08:56 pm »
A few thoughts, FWIW, about the wifi discussion:

1) I was sitting next to a guy (Grant) at Warpstock who was using his iPad to provide internet to his Lenovo laptop running AOS 5.1.1 (I think it was through his iPad but might have been through his iPhone).  So it is possible.  If anyone wants the details I will email him and ask - if he isn't already reading this topic.

2) Grant is an assembly language programmer - his preferred language.  One of his goals is to get bluetooth running on OS/2.  He has an ODB2 car scanner that he wants to be able to read using OS/2.  So we MAY get some bluetooth support, for at least some devices.

Anybody gots Grant contact information ? If so would somebody please send him my contact data (or he contact me) on roderickklein at xs4all.nl.

As for Bluetooth support. I am no expert in this but this might be a bit a big one to get working as I get the impression you would need a Bluettooth to support a bluettooth device. You need to for exaple talk to Bluetooth transmitter in your PC. So I wonder how much work it would be.

Roderick Klein

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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« on: November 16, 2025, 10:46:28 pm »
Quote
who have the knowledge, time and interest
  • who have the knowledge
  • time and
  • interest

Tell me when you have a candidate for only one of the above 3 questions.

Seriously, I've been the maintainer of xwlan and our port of wpa_supplicant for about a decade. Although I've fixed and extended a lot and invested countless hours, even these two project are far from what we would need today. And that's only an interface to a driver. I know porting or writing a wifi driver would be a lot of more (huge more) work. From my experience the majority of 'non programmers' don't even get feedback. Not to talk about helping out with testing or writing readme's..... So dream on.

Look I am not an expert but heck you ask Copilot.com at least as *some* form of start. This list comes pretty close to what is needed to write an OS/2 wifi driver. Maybe not all is needed. But let this list sink in:
1. Device Identification & Initialization
   PCI/USB/SDIO bus interface code to detect the chipset.
   Proper vendor and device IDs so the OS can bind the driver.
   Initialization routines to set up registers and memory mapping

2. Firmware Loader
   Many WiFi chipsets require proprietary firmware blobs.
   The driver must include routines to load firmware into the chipset at startup

3. MAC Layer (Medium Access Control)
   Implements 802.11 protocol logic (association, authentication, encryption).
   Handles packet framing, retransmissions, and QoS.

4. PHY Layer (Physical Layer) Control
   Manages radio tuning, modulation, and channel selection.
   Provides APIs for setting frequency bands and transmit power.

5. Network Stack Integration
   Hooks into the OS networking subsystem (e.g., Linux cfg80211 and mac80211 frameworks).
   Provides standard interfaces for scanning, connecting, and data transfe

6. Configuration & Management Utilities
   User-space tools or APIs (like iwconfig, NetworkManager, or custom utilities).
   Support for WPA/WPA2/WPA3 security via integration with supplicant software

7. Interrupt & DMA Handling
   Efficient handling of hardware interrupts for packet transmission/reception.
   DMA (Direct Memory Access) setup for high-speed data transfer.

Skipping power management

9. Error Handling & Logging
   Debugging hooks, kernel logs, and recovery routines for failed transmissions or firmware crashes.

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