@ Christian:
Thank you very much for giving these informations - even if they are so bad for Willibald, hope he will recover - to all the others. It may help some to understand that it is not Thorolf who is responsible for the end of this project. Without him we may have had no information about it at all.
And , by the way, while trying to get the Intel 5100/5200/5300 WLAN Adapter via UNSUPPORTED mode to run, Thorolf tried his best to help me and others, without shouting this from the rooftops....
Unfortunately we did not get a usable result.
I appreciate Doug Bissets way with the GENMU files, even though I guess one has to look for another way than GENMAC to support "modern" hardware.
But - as it seems to me - the focus of the eComStation developement is the ability to run it in a virtual machine, once with Virtualbox, now in addition with VMWare - as far as I was able to realize this is because of a costumers (insurance company) needs.
As a private end user I (for me!) have to state that I realized while installing eCS in Virtualbox in Windows 7 Pro 64 bit - that I do not need eCs anymore in this environment. I think Ed Durrant's idea of a small Linux starting a virtual machine (invisible) and then eCS in it was a good one....
And it is a pitty that concentrating on one hardwarebase with a "reference system" did not make it. It is almost one year ago that we had this discussion, but ... yeah. Okay - I bought a 4 year old "Netbook" (JVC 941) , dissambeld it (as allways

) upgraded RAM from 256 MB to 2 GB (Oohh! I have to correct me, today arrived the additional 1 GB form the US, allthough the BIOS says there are 2016 MB of RAM the Netbook shows diplay errors right after the BIOS is passed - I remember - it may be because of the shared memory Grafic chipset... Have to investigate....at least I have 1.25 GB RAM if it is not working with 2...), HDD from a 4.200 40GB to a 5.400 160 GB and installed eCS Silver on it - LAN, WLAN, USB, Sound, Video (SNAP), internal DVD burner (!) - almost everything seems to work fine, and it has got such a nice display, haven't seen one like this on modern netbooks. Still have to figure some things out (Powermanagment works but then no sound and vice versa, PCMCIA) but this is it.
Would be nice to have support for modern chipsets LAN / WLAN though!