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#1
Probably TP_mania would like to say he is not a spammer.

I know he is a heavy OS/2 user in Japan and a long-time visitor to this site.
But he had never posted anything to this forum due to his English skill.
Finally he made his first post the day before yesterday, but what a bad timing,
this site-announcement was posted soon after and it said
"advise: do not respond to posts from a newbie".

Ya...I would say something if I'm in his position  :)
#2
Internet / Re: Firefox 3.x Font Issue?
2008.09.11, 03:40:43
Quote from: warpcafe on 2008.09.11, 00:28:43
ehhh... phew... there's a voice in the back of my head whispering "chrome"... but I can't remember if that applies to FF and especially FF3 for heaven's sake. I'm getting too old I guess.

Preparing userChrome.css in the profile-directory/chrome/ is still valid to customize FF3.0 and SM2.0 cosmetic.
#3
For the onboard LAN:
The RTL8169 driver version 1.13 that supports RTL8102E has been formally released.
(Although the driver loading message still says that it is v.1.12.)

http://os2warp.be/index2.php?name=gomindis#4
#4
Quote from: rudi on 2008.07.24, 16:01:39
What sense does that make (except adding the possibility for the user to do something wrong) ?

No strong reason.

First, Japanese OS/2 users including the author (and me) are still far from high IRQ environment because we don't have eCS Japanese edition in the market yet. He couldn't test the high IRQ support code by himself. Under such situation, his priority could be "no regression" than "new feature".
- I need high IRQ support in your driver.
- Please test my implementation. You can enable it by option parameter.
- It works well.
- Okay I release it (as-is).

And, the default value of the option parameter can be easily changed by modifying rtgnda.nif file with text editor. As mentioned in the document file, author doesn't stop us to modify anything of the driver package and re-release it by ourselves.
So you can go ahead.
#5
Quote from: rudi on 2008.07.23, 23:47:22
Maybe you can ask why this "Accept IRQ level > 15" option does exist ? I really don't see any
good reason for this and I'm not aware of any other driver using such an option.
This is because, as Robin mentioned, APIC interrupt mode allows IRQ to be larger than 15. DaniS506 also supports such high IRQs to adapt to APIC.PSD that come with eCS ACPI support.
High IRQ support for RTL 8169 was added after initial release of the driver. IIRC, the author made it an option for backward compatibility, unlike DaniS506 that expanded IRQ levels without extra options.
#6
Robin, I'm glad to hear the result :)

By referring Realtek LAN device driver source code for FreeBSD, all RTLxxxx device control procedure seemed almost common. So I thought that legacy Realtek driver for OS/2 should work if it can detect RTL8102E (PCI ID=10EC:8136). I patched rtsnd323 (RTL8139 driver for OS/2) first to let it detect RTL8102E. But it failed. Driver could be loaded but it said "Cable is disconnected". I almost gave up at that time...but my friend gave me a hint to use the RTL8169 driver instead.

The patch provided in my previous post is just to replace supported device ID 10EC:8167 with 10EC:8136.
My OS/2 MCP2 based web server (www.os2.jp) is running with this driver over 10 days. (HW is Intel D945GCLF Atom motherboard.)
I can say the driver is stable enough.

I can contact the driver author. I will ask him to put the RTL8102E support code in. Or, I can release new driver by myself. I have just succeeded to make the driver from the source code.
#7
Hi guys,

Could you try following procedure for your MSI Wind notebooks, and let me know the result?
1. Go to www.os2warp.be and step into Gomi NDIS MAC drivers section, then aquire RTL8169 driver v1.12.
2. Prepare the following text file and put it in the same place of rtgnda.os2, with naming it e.g. patch.txt.
FILE rtgnda.os2
VER 1876 6781
CHA 1876 3681

3. From command prompt, call patch.exe (OS/2's one, not GNU's) with "/A" parameter. e.g. >patch.exe patch.txt /A
4. Install the patched RTL8169 driver as usual.
5. Check the LAN connectivity.

I got the RTL8102E of Intel D945GCLF Atom motherboard working by this procedure. But it fails on Gigabyte GA-GC230D...maybe because the "shutdown" problem.
#8
Quote from: RobertM on 2008.06.06, 05:49:20
I think I am definitely doing something wrong then... Apache definitely is not running my cmd files for me. Maybe I have a needed option off in the config file (it doesnt run PHP files either, unless they have the php extension).

You should put your cmd file into /Apache2/cgi-bin. Default httpd.conf (that is copied from httpd.conf.sample) allows to run scripts only in this directory.

Single steps to test simple rexx script that I did...
1. Unpack Paul's Apache 2.2.8 into root directory of any drive e.g. e:\ .
2. Edit e:\Apache2\startup.cmd to change drive letter from u: to e: .
3. Copy e:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf.sample to e:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf
4. Run e:\Apache2\startup.cmd
5. Open http://localhost/ by web browser and see "It works!".
6. Copy attached test.cmd into e:\Apache2\cgi-bin
7. Open http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cmd and see current date and time.

If you want to place your script files other than cgi-bin directory, you need to customize httpd.conf around:
- ScriptAlias directive
or
- ExecCGI option for Index directive
- AddHandler directive for .cmd file
#9
If your rexx scripts have ".cmd" extension, Apache/2 (including Paul's builds) can run them as CGI without any extra stuff.

Following message gives us a good explanation how Apache/2 executes a script:
http://silk.apana.org.au/pipermail/apache2/2003-March/002589.html