From: "Digest" <ianatos2site dot com>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" <deadmail>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 01:00:00 +1000 (EDT)
Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 177
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Date:- 05 October 2001

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From: "voytek" <voytekatsbt dot net dot au>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 07:33:14 +1000
Subject: Re: [os2genau] A newbie's simple guide for connecting OatH to OS/2?

On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 22:05:09 +1000 (EST), Ian Manners wrote:

>I must confess to never having used DHCP so I cant help you there.

there are several sites documenting how2 Warp, cable modem and DHCP for braodband access
Ted Romer at watermaid was doing that on Optus cable before Optus launched it's service;
Peter McGrath set it up (several years ago)
(sorry I don't recall the URLs right now)

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Subject: Re: [os2genau] A newbie's simple guide for connecting OatH to OS/2?
From: "Brad Van Eps/NCO/CEtv" <BradVanEpsataustar dot com dot au>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:05:24 +1000

Hi,

     I also run OptusatHome under OS/2 and am wrapped with how well it
works.  The biggest issues are:

1. If you are running TCP/IP stack 4.0 (the one which comes default with
OS/2 Warp 4), make sure you upgrade it to 4.02W (from memory). User
"inetver" to check this.  DHCP is somewhat broken in the base release, so
check
ftp://service.boulder.ibm dot com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/v4.0os2/latest/stack/
for the latest patches to fix this.

2. As you have done, change the dhpcd.cfg file with your customer ID.

3. Also change the name of your machine to your customer ID, eg.
coxxxxxxx-A to make sure you are always issued the same IP address.  This
will play havoc with their ARP tables if you don't.

This has worked fine for me under both FP11 and FP15 of the OS.


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Does such a guide exist?

Last night I installed OS/2 version 4 (the version that was given away
for free last year on the APC magazine disk) and I immediately updated
the OS by installing OS/2 Fixpack 5 which appeared on an APC magazine
disc from April 1998.  I then added the following line to my
\mptn\etc\dhcpcd.cfg file:

Option 12 "COnnnnnnn-A"        # Host Name (cable customer ID)
 (all the other options in this file were rem'ed by default)

However at boot up, the computer initialises the AOpen Ethernet adaptor,
and then waits for about 60 seconds while it attempts to make a
connection to the DHCP server at OatH.  After this time I get a message
telling me it was unable to get the required information and that it
would continue to try in the background.

What am I doing wrong here.  Does anyone else who reads this mail list
have an OS/2 box running with OatH.  Is there some other fixpack that I
need to install in addition to Fixpack 5?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Stephen Anderson

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From: "Daryl Pilkington" <u3232athome.dialix dot com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:44:01 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Copying on-the-fly: CD-ROM->CD-R

Hi Graham,
Create an ISO CD image on your HDD 1st then burn the image file.


On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:45:13 -0950 (CST), Dr Graham Norton FRACP
Neurologist wrote:

>Daryl
>
>what do you mean you want to copy a CD "on the fly"  how else does one  copy a 
>CD?
>
SNIP
>

Regards,

Daryl  Pilkington 

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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 05:52:18 +1000
From: "Mike" <>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] [os2genau_digest]OS/2 on VAIO

"Gavin Miller" <paxtonatiaa dot com dot au> wrote:
> 
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:33:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: [os2genau] OS/2 on VAIO
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You're running OS/2 on your Sony VAIO?  I was thinking about purchasing one but
> could not find any info on OS/2 compatability.
> 
> Cheers
> Gavin

Sorry Gavin for the delay in responding.
 [I had been using FreeAgent under ODIN in eCS to download
(at < 28.8K )the complete news.ecomstation.nl site(68MB)to a
HDD so that I could peruse at leisure, only to find out that
I had missed a setting and although the .DAT/.IDX files
didn't shrink, the database purged everything older than
30days automatically - as I hadn't marked every message with
"KEEP"], and have only just finished reloading it all.

I'm sorry I gave you a misimpression about OS/2 ALREADY
running on my VAIO. I purchased my PCG-F190 in early 1999 in
USA, before Sony started marketing locally. It comprises
PII-366/128MB/2.5MB NeoMagic video/14.1" XGA Active Matrix
TFT/6.4GB HDD [SONY sensibly partitioned to C:(OS-W98-4.2GB
FAT32)+D:(AV data 2GB FAT32)+ 200MB hibernation]/built-in
DVD-ROM & 1.44 Floppy/i.LINK(200mbps Firewire/Ricoh
Cardbus(2xtype II slots or 1xType II), all in about 3.1KG. 
Ultimately I hope to put eCS on it, but not until I have
everything extra (system software upgrades etc.) which
updates the System Recovery and Application CDs written off
to CD-RW/R. The Video section of the AV NeoMagic chips I
know is supported by Scitech drivers, but so far I haven't
been able to discover anything about the Audio side in OS/2.
I know from the performance in W98 that it would FLY under
OS/2 MCP or eCS. I am about to do a search on "OS/2 &
Firewire" to see if that would be a possibility with a
bootable Firewire drive under OS/2 or alternatively whether
I can replace the internal HDD (it's an IBM!) with a larger
one, that I can setup with Partition Magic and install
System Commander, which will run from the FAT32. Apart from
the usual Windows GPFs, the main problem in W98, is the
icon-problem - you can't lock them in place in WIN and ditto
with the Windows Explorer telling me that I can't MOVE some
folder or another in the directory pane to wherever, when I
had no intention of picking the damn thing up anyhow.

I won't be installing eCS on it until I've sorted a few
"features" out on the desktop.

regards,
- Mike

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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 06:15:30 +1000
From: "Mike" <>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] W2K  switch off

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 05:56:30 +1000
Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au> wrote:

>This function is related to APM - I hadn't realised that this HAS been
>implemented undfer Warp successfully as well ! We're talking ATX
>board systems with APM. Perhaps I should try to configure APM
>when I install Convienience Pack 2 (due out, I think in October)
>and see if it works OK under OS/2 as well.
>
>On the Win2000 PC, hit the power button and it does a clean
>(quick) shutdown - I hope Warp does the same.

On my desktop machine, I have the ATX soft-power-button
configured to "instant-off" mode as opposed to the other
option which is to "put the machine into suspend mode" if
button pressed for less than 4 seconds. In either case
pressing the power button for more than 4 seconds completely
shut the power OFF. I have an option in the BIOS to have the
LEDs flash while in suspend mode, which I have enabled. Are
you sure that you are actually switching the power OFF?

 - Mike

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From: "David Forrester" <davidforatterrigal dot net dot au>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:34:12 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] [os2genau_digest]OS/2 on VAIO

On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 05:52:18 +1000, List Admin wrote:

>Sorry Gavin for the delay in responding.
> [I had been using FreeAgent under ODIN in eCS to download
>(at < 28.8K )the complete news.ecomstation.nl site(68MB)to a
>HDD so that I could peruse at leisure, only to find out that
>I had missed a setting and although the .DAT/.IDX files
>didn't shrink, the database purged everything older than
>30days automatically - as I hadn't marked every message with
>"KEEP"], and have only just finished reloading it all.


>
>I'm sorry I gave you a misimpression about OS/2 ALREADY
>running on my VAIO. I purchased my PCG-F190 in early 1999 in
>USA, before Sony started marketing locally. It comprises
>PII-366/128MB/2.5MB NeoMagic video/14.1" XGA Active Matrix
>TFT/6.4GB HDD [SONY sensibly partitioned to C:(OS-W98-4.2GB
>FAT32)+D:(AV data 2GB FAT32)+ 200MB hibernation]/built-in
>DVD-ROM & 1.44 Floppy/i.LINK(200mbps Firewire/Ricoh
>Cardbus(2xtype II slots or 1xType II), all in about 3.1KG. 
>Ultimately I hope to put eCS on it, but not until I have
>everything extra (system software upgrades etc.) which
>updates the System Recovery and Application CDs written off
>to CD-RW/R. The Video section of the AV NeoMagic chips I
>know is supported by Scitech drivers, but so far I haven't
>been able to discover anything about the Audio side in OS/2.

Is it using the NeoMagic audio (something like MagicMedia 256ZX)  or a
Crystal Audio?  If it's NeoMagic audio, you're out of luck.  I have a
Dell Latitude with this video/sound combination, and unfortunately,
there's no sound support.  At the moment I'm trying to find the time
(and courage) to port the Linux drivers (with help from the ported
SBLive drivers).

--
David Forrester
davidforatterrigal dot net dot au
http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/

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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:26:33 +1000
From: Peter Godbold <spgatgil dot com dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] NS 4.61 Browser Access Problem

Anyone else getting an "Access Denied" problem with the Australian IT
Ping Newsletters?

It seems that in the last three weeks the PING Newsletters have been
accessing a web page:
	 http://hjc1.careerone dot com dot au/js/setLocation.js
which continually resturns an "ERROR - The requested URL could not be
retrieved", with an "Access denied" return code.

Just wondering if it might be checking the browser version and rejecting
the NS 4.61 identifier.  I seem to remember there was an entry you could
insert in prefs.js to cause it to masquerade as V6, but can't locate the
info at the moment.

Peter G.