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Hardware / Re: ESS 1869 sound card drivers for eCS 2.1?
« on: November 09, 2014, 03:28:33 am »
Hi 83.0b.et

Hobbes is always a good place to check for drivers. At the moment the website is down but the files are still accessible using ftp

You may want to have a look here ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/sound/ where you should find a choice of 3 versions - I suggest trying the latest version.

Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Motherboard woes
« on: October 31, 2014, 06:37:20 pm »
Hi Marc

I suspect it may help if you identify the Intel CPU in use as that will affect your mainboard selection - or are you intending to upgrade CPU and, probably, RAM as well?

Are you sure it is a mainboard problem you need to resolve? Difficulty "firing up" a computer is often related to Power Supply problems.

I have 2 eCsSsystems here using Logitech wireless keyboards http://support.logitech.com/en_ca/product/cordless-desktop-comfort-laser

These keyboards were supplied in a set with a wireless mouse that worked OK but both the Mrs and I prefer a wireless trackball as we don't need to chase a trackball around the (physical) desktop http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m570

I do know that Microsoft wireless keyboards/mice have not worked with eCS in the past - not sure if the problems have been resolved - but I have not had any problems with Logitech wireless keyboards/mice/trackballs.


Regards

Pete





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Hardware / Re: Compaq Armada 1750 [Laptop]
« on: October 27, 2014, 06:25:43 pm »
Hi

I have a Dell Latitude E5500 laptop where the touchpad is not recognized at all. The "work around" is to use a USB attached mouse.

I suspect you will have to use the same "work around" on your Compaq - you may need to Disable the touchpad in the laptop BIOS.

Regards

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes version handling
« on: September 11, 2014, 11:32:52 pm »
Hi Doug

It is a long time since I had a look at the hobbes upload guide so Thanks for providing the url for me to refresh my memory.

There is a section named Missing/incomplete/malformed textfile which states that an email would be sent in the case of rejection. Clearly that is not happening these days otherwise several of us would have known why our uploaded files were rejected/deleted.

Maybe a hobbes script has deleted itself...  ;-)

I'm currently waiting for hobbes admin to get back to me about what caused the files to be rejected and expect to be told that the .txt file containing 2 archive names, .zip and .wpi, was the cause.

I will suggest that as it has become fairly common for OS/2 software to be offered in both .zip and .wpi archives that the script(s) could be modified to allow both .zip and .wpi archive names in the same .txt file. I guess that will depend on how difficult it will be to modify existing script(s).

Regards

Pete



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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes version handling
« on: September 11, 2014, 04:59:09 pm »
Hi Dave

Good thinking, that looks like it could get round any limitations in the hobbes script(s).

If the current .wpi disappears again I'll try that.


Regards

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes version handling
« on: September 11, 2014, 02:26:23 am »
Hi Dave

Following yesterdays upload and an email to the hobbes admin USBcfg082.zip and USBcfg082.txt have now appeared in hobbes /pub/os2/system.

It looks like USBcfg082.wpi has been deleted.

I have emailed hobbes admin to ask whether it is necessary to upload a txt file for each archive. Hopefully hobbes admin will get back to me with a definitive answer.

@Dave re: "Perhaps name the WPi as USBcfg082_wpi.wpi. "
I'm not sure I understand...
How will renaming a *.wpi file to * _ wpi.wpi help?


Regards

Pete




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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes version handling
« on: September 10, 2014, 03:59:55 am »
Hi Andy

Yes, the case of the txt and zip and wpi files were correct.

Please check hobbes incoming for USBcfg082 files and advise me of any cockups I may have made.

I do wonder if the USBcfg082 files got deleted as there is only the 1 txt file to cover both zip and wpi files... maybe *nix scripts just cannot handle such complexity  ;-)

I think something has been changed at hobbes with regard to searching for files. This url
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=USBcfg082
used to work fine but now returns "No files found".

Using the search on hobbes homepage I see the files are found - but the necessary url is now
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=USBcfg082&pushbutton=Search


Regards

Pete




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Programming / Re: Simple C Programming Editor and File Manager for eCS ?
« on: September 10, 2014, 03:32:52 am »
Hi

You may want to try the MED editor which seems to have some - if not all -  of the features you want http://www.utopia-planitia.de/index.html


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: ECs on a Toshiba M35x laptop
« on: September 10, 2014, 03:20:57 am »
Hi

Am I right in thinking that the M35x uses ACPI in Windows? - If "Yes" then it probably needs ACPI support in order to install eCS1.0 - but eCS1.0 does not have ACPI support.

Another thought is: Does Windows use the AHCI disk driver? - If "Yes" then you have a similar problem to above as eCS1.0 does not have AHCI support.

A final thought for the moment: Download the demo of DFSee as a bootable CD and tell us what DFSee says about the drive - http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/cdrom.php#cdiso


Regards

Pete



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General Discussion / Re: Hobbes version handling
« on: September 10, 2014, 03:05:59 am »
Hi All

It used to be that hobbes required lowercase filenames but that was years ago.

Try searching for USBcfg on hobbes just to show that case is not an issue.

Having just tried the above search myself I see that the most recent release USBcfg082 (both .zip and .wpi versions) have gone missing - hobbes reports "No files found" when searching for USBcfg082.

I guess the hobbes administrator may have changed things again so that lowercase is now required but I doubt it. I suspect simple cockups by the current administrator to be more likely.

I have emailed the admin to ask what has happened to the USBcfg082 files and hope to get a reply.

In the meantime I guess I should re-upload the USBcfg082 files - and try to keep tabs on what happens to them.


Regards

Pete

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Networking / Re: eCS 2.1 - Network Share Problem
« on: September 02, 2014, 03:22:42 am »
Hi Mark

My best guess at the moment is that the file [BootDrive]:\IBMLAN\LSSHARE.INI has become a little corrupted - if it exists.

If interested you can open that file and see if you can spot the problem using an ini file editor, eg INI editor from the INI Tools package available here http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/INI_Tools

It might be easier to simply delete [BootDrive]:\IBMLAN\LSSHARE.INI and then try recreating the share(s).

Regards

Pete


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Hardware / Re: Searching for a Battery for Thinkpad 701c Butterfly
« on: September 01, 2014, 01:20:20 am »
Hi Sigurd

Is this battery not correct? http://www.akku-mann.com/ibm-thinkpad-701-701c-701c-701cx-intelligent-laptop-akku-p-363.html?language=en

I seem to have got a few hits using this google search  Akku Battery for Thinkpad 701c


Regards

Pete

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Setup & Installation / Re: How to get ride of HPFS386
« on: August 27, 2014, 03:24:17 am »
Hi Andi

Did you use SYSINSTX after swapping IFS's? - I have needed to use this when swapping IFS's in the past.

Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 23, 2014, 06:02:26 am »
Hi Joop

As I have simply unzipped and OO411rc3 works fine - so far - I can only guess that the requirements are about the same as for an earlier beta of OO4 so here is the readme included with that release:-


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Developer Build
=====================================


Apache OpenOffice is comprised of six personal productivity applications: a
word processor (and its web-authoring component), spreadsheet, presentation
graphics, drawing, equation editor, and database.

IMPORTANT: These builds are intended to be used for early testing by other
community volunteers. They have no release quality and should not be installed
in a production environment. Developer snapshots can be unstable and are
expected to have bugs.


Installation notes:
-------------------
The package is provided only in zip file format, and it will not use your
OpenOffice GA user configuration.


System requirements:
--------------------
- eComStation 1.x, 2.x
- OS/2 Warp
- 32bit tcpip stack
- the following packages must be installed (dll only)
   libc 0.6.5
   gcc 4.4.6
   gcc 4.4.4
   ssl
   curl
   jpeg
   xslt
   libicu
   z
   xml2
   stdcpp
   mmap
   pthread
   urpo


These files can be installed with the following command:

   yum install libc gcc-4.4.4 gcc-4.4.6 openssl curl libjpeg libxslt libicu zlib libxml2 stdcpp mmap pthread urpo gcc-stdc++-shared-library

if you have a valid rpm/yum installation.
Otherwise you can grab the corresponding zip files from

   http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/

Only the dlls are needed.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Hope the above is of some help - looks like you may need libicu judging by the error message but I think you should also check you have all other need lib files.


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 22, 2014, 12:30:04 pm »
Hi ivan

Surely DLL files should be available in the LIBPATH not the DPATH ?


regards

Pete

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