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#1
Applications / Recommended software?
2011.06.30, 09:19:40
I haven't used OS/2 for "real" for the better part of a decade.

I usually keep tabs on OS/2/eCS development though since operating systems is one of my interests and I stumbled across the BlueNexus website. I already had a license for eCS 1.2/2.0 but I found BlueNexus to be so infectiously curious about OS/2 I decided to get a license for eCS 2.1GA.

So now I have a eCS 2.1GA system and I find myself asking:
What applications are current and recommended today?

My usual host of programs on Mac OS X and/or Windows are:
Firefox (check!)
Java (check!)
Flash (?)
Adobe Reader / Preview on OS X (?)
AIR (for Tweetdeck) - I don't know the status of AIR for OS/2 but maybe there is another recommended Twitter client?
LibreOffice (?)
DropBox (?)
uTorrent / Transmission (?)
Evernote (?)
1Password (?)
Winscp / scp (?)
Putty / ZOC (?, maybe ZOC? I used to use ZOC for OS/2 and have a license for it)
Remote Desktop Connection (?)


I used to use these OS/2 programs:
GammaTech Utilities (horribly out of date?)
ZOC (there is an older version available for OS/2, I still use it on OS X)
Object Desktop Professional
Process Commander (not sure if I just remember getting it or actually using it)
SPM/2
Describe (?, word processor, maybe someone remembers if this was the real name)
MR/2 ICE
CDAD/2
PMMail/2
4OS2
Exceed


So, recommendations?
#2
Networking / TCP/IP in eCS 2.1?
2011.06.29, 16:34:57
It's been a long time since I last used OS/2 but now I tried my hand at installing eCS 2.1 on a Thinkpad T41 (2373-tg5). The install works fine, when done and telling it to strat networking automatically I can't ping anything. I get a sendto: No route to host.

This is with a wired connection, it says during startup that it can't load drivers for the wifi so thats a later problem. I have a green light on the wired etehernet port so I have physical connectivity.

Checking TCP/IP configuration it tells med LAN Interface 0 is enabled and should get an address via DHCP.
The DHCP client monitor tells me: DDNS hostanme not registered (normal) and IP address Not Configured (not quite normal). Status: Discovering DHCP servers. Linux/Windows/OS X hosts get addresses just fine via DHCP.
Looking at the Details view in the DHCP Client Monitor tells me:
Sending DISCOVER message.
Number of options requested=6
And it does this with three minute intervals (appx).

I'm probably doing something wrong at a basic level here but need some hints as to what's wrong.

???