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To my understanding the so called wide screen activator is only needed for graphic boards with incomplete (you can call it buggy) graphic bios. It's necessary only when the desired resolution is not defined in bios. Standard resolutions like 1920x1200 are defined in better graphic bioses anyway and SNAP or any other driver can use it out of the box without any 'activator'. For not so usual resolutions f.i. 16:9 (1920x1080) or the new netbook with sometimes rather weired resolution maybe even on better graphic cards a special 'activator' is necessary.

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Article Discussions / Re: OpenOffice now LibreOffice?
« on: 2011.02.01, 13:30:56 »
Crashes I had most times are shared memory problems. Since using Seamonkey 2.x this should be better now. But upgraded to OO3.2 too. And do not heavy work with OO. So can't really say it's stable or not. Only that 'not usable' is not true for me. It works pretty well for my tasks with spread sheets with diagramms.

Regarding support I partly agree with Pete - wouldn't say it's 'absolutely useless' but 'non existent'.

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Article Discussions / Re: 4OS2 version 3.05A RC4
« on: 2011.01.23, 19:24:33 »
v3.06 is the latest now :-)

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Applications / Re: Barcode trouble/ please help.
« on: 2011.01.19, 10:33:57 »
... config.sys on os/2 contains codepage=866,850. I tried change codepage to 866 only and restart system, but problem still here.
...
Some general notes for codepages - OS/2 uses by default the first of the two values from the config.sys. In your case 866. The second one is only 'prepared' (see below)

So it's clear there is no difference for you between -
codepage=866,850 and
codepage=866
as 866 is used in both cases.

To use the second one (the prepared one) you have to use the chcp command. f.i. open a command shell (CLI window) and type in "chcp 850" (this only works when you have 850 'prepared' in your config.sys) and then start your program datacentral.exe FROM THIS COMMAND SHELL. Now datacentral should run with codepage 850 instead the default 866. But, I've no clue if 850 is the one you really need.

In general it can be dangerous playing with the first value (866 from above example) of the codepage entry. Changing the second one (850) usually do not harm cause OS/2 itself only uses the first number.

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There was a discussion on the genmac news list and AFAIR the problem with the RTL816* and DHCP is that the NIC does not return a MAC address to Genmac and then when tryint to get a IP address from DHCP server with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00 does not succeed on various setups.

AFAIR someone made a hack for that. Maybe you search on the netlabs.genmac.user list.

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Applications / Re: RPM/YUM !
« on: 2011.01.03, 15:28:06 »
I really do not understand some comments and excitements here. I read a lot of eCS related infos since years, follow newsgroups and forums. I think I'm rather well informed eCS end user. As such I do not see why some paint the picture of the end of eCS or threat  to leave eCS only cause one very dedicated developer decided to port RPM to eCS. What's wrong if someone spend time on programming/porting software to eCS? Would anyone here pitch about Paul cause he made a wealth of Linux software available for eCS? No, in fact people like Paul have extended the life of OS/2 by years and without such people, most of us would have to left eCS years ago.

Face the facts, eCS can not live without software from Linux. Like it or not. Personally I would prefer native OS/2 software but that game is over. I can not live without apache, squid, sql, svn .... anymore. And so I have to learn some basic about how the linux guys get things working. Other solution would be writing my own web server and all the other software by myself (not serious) or using Windoze and pay Microsoft for there software (no, not in any case), buy a MAC and buy Apple software (not what I would like to afford).

AFAIK Yuri does RPM cause he likes it and he hope someone else likes it too. No one convinces you to use it. If a program developer decides to use a zip archive or a wpi or a rpm package to deploy his software, it's the developers decision. If you do not like it, ask politely the developer or even better, take the application and repack it in the form you like it. Or even better, PAY the developer for his work to pack his software in the way you need it. Getting things for free and pitching around cause you dislike the way you get it is the wrong way I think.

To make things a little bit more concrete - making a wpi package for the first time may take more than a few hours. Of course depends on the complexity of the installation requirements. I f you're experienced with Warpin it may take from 1 hour to 5 or for complex setups even more hours to pack and test it. Warpin documentation is rather good. Only additional hint I may gave, stay away from the GUI tool. So take the chance and pack some software you like as .wpi and upload it to hobbes. No programming skills are necessary, everyone can do it. If you do not like to do it by yourself, in most cases it will take only less than a few hundred Euros to get it packed the way you like it. Why not ask the developer to pack it the way you like it? Why not pay for this? Oh yes, software has to be free, every OS/2 developer has to work for free, has to pack his software in 5 different ways which is sometimes more work as the initial program and a totally boring job, has to address even the most unimportant user wishes, has to develop not was he self likes but someone else wanted to have, ....

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Article Discussions / Re: 4OS2 version 3.05A RC4
« on: 2010.11.25, 13:51:38 »
Latest is 3.05A (4os2_3.05A.zip) not rc4.

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Programming / Re: Newbie Queston
« on: 2010.11.23, 09:13:29 »
rmview |more

rmview >temp.txt to output into a file for reading with a text editor.

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Hardware / Re: major trouble after motherboard swap
« on: 2010.11.23, 09:10:46 »
I vaguely remember I couldn't install one of the 2.0rc versions because of the UNI kernel. I think I filled a bug for that. Solution was - using SMP kernel. Your problem reminded me the troubles I had at that time and so I suggested SMP instead of UNI cause it was definitely the solution. On the other hand, if you've a working system with UNI kernel and don't want to benefit from the extra cores you already bought you can stick with UNI or W4 kernel if you like.

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Hardware / Re: USB hardrive power-down and JFS crashes
« on: 2010.11.19, 14:21:12 »
Don't know which JFS version you use, but there are updates available about 3 months ago AFAIR. Maybe you should post your trap screen at the bugtracker at ecomstation or check if there's an open ticket for that.

My 2 1TB 3.5" and the 500GB 2.5" works without problems (latest JFS drivers installed). All are Western Digital here.

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Hardware / Re: major trouble after motherboard swap
« on: 2010.11.19, 14:12:47 »
eCS2.0 is shipped with/will install SMP kernel and there are reasons for that I do not remember any more. Suggest you try the SMP kernel not the UNI.

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Hardware / Re: Access Intel E100E SVN
« on: 2010.10.01, 12:41:40 »
Seems Adrian has solved the issues with intelnic and odin32 now.

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USB / Re: USB 3G EVDO Modem
« on: 2010.09.27, 12:47:05 »
...for me this sounds cryptic %..% - sorry!...
You should try some command line stuff :) f.i. 'echo %path%' displays the contents of your path environment variable usually set in your config.sys.

If you have 'set unixroot=o:\' in your config.sys or type it into a command line window (cmd.exe or 4os2.exe ;) ), 'echo %unixroot%' will display 'o:\'

Enviroment variable ETC is usually set during installation and put into your config.sys. I think in your case there is a line 'set ETC=O:\MPTN\ETC'. You can look into your config.sys or try on a command prompt 'echo %etc%' to see what is actually set. Maybe you try these steps -
open command window
set unixroot=o:\
set etc=etc
usb_modeswitch.cmd

HTH

P.S. At evening I'll have a look at my Notebook to see what I've done to let usb_modeswitch work.

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Realtek 8201CL is not a 'network chip' (MAC Media Access Controller) but a PHY (Physical Interface). You do not need any driver for a PHY but for the MAC. In your case that one built into the NVIDIA chip. No clue why this hardware vendors even notice the PHY chip since a while. Probably they even do not know that this is of no interest to anyone.

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Hardware / Re: Access Intel E100E SVN
« on: 2010.09.10, 13:08:05 »
I can check out the sources, but can not log in at http://svn.ecomstation.nl/intelnic/newticket. Neither with my netlabs user/password nor that one for ecomstation.com nor with the mensys one.

So I think this is a general problem. Suggest to email mensys or open a bug report at http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/

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