From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:01:03 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 768 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 04 January 2004 Number 768 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 2 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 3 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 4 Re: dial up?? : Ed Durrant 5 Re: dial up?? : Ed Durrant 6 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 7 Re: dial up?? : Ed Durrant 8 Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works : Ed Durrant 9 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 10 Re: Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works : David Forrester" 11 Re: dial up?? : Ed Durrant 12 Re: Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works : Ed Durrant 13 Re: dial up?? : Gavin Miller" 14 Re: dial up?? : Ed Durrant 15 Timestamps on messages - Gavin : Mike O'Connor 16 Re: Timestamps on messages - Gavin : Tom Perrett" 17 Re: Timestamps on messages - Gavin : Mike O'Connor **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:15:37 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? Just had a look at the TCPSTART>CMD file and everything underneath the line "echo STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES ....." is rem'd out until the line "echo ..... FINISHED STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES" Should this be the case or should I unrem? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:32:16 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? Actually now I suspect it has something to do with Mozilla 1.4.1 as the behaviour I mentioned in the other post only occurs when Mozilla pops up with that site not found type of message. I guess from there it's blocking the dial up connection from being recognised. I've had PMmail running without dialup connection, let it try and fetch my mail, then dialed in to my ISP and PMmail has recognised the connection and fetched accordingly, whereas after Mozilla had been running without a connection, PMmail refused to connect after dialing in. Will test with Netscape...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:43:58 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? Tell a lie. PMmail also refused to connect if it tries to fetch BEFORE doip is started (dialling that is). Is it tricked into thinking there is a network internet access? I have no TCP/IP settings at all for any NIC. I can't remember having this trouble before. The only thing I've done recently is install PMfax Pro, and it put it's FMD driver into config >Actually now I suspect it has something to do with Mozilla 1.4.1 as the behaviour I >mentioned in the other post only occurs when Mozilla pops up with that site not found >type of message. I guess from there it's blocking the dial up connection from being >recognised. I've had PMmail running without dialup connection, let it try and fetch my >mail, then dialed in to my ISP and PMmail has recognised the connection and fetched >accordingly, whereas after Mozilla had been running without a connection, PMmail >refused to connect after dialing in. Will test with Netscape...... > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:40:41 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: dial up?? It "shouldn't" be Mozilla. It will simply look for a TCPIP connection be it dial-up or ADSL/Cable. One question - do you have a local LAN as well ? If so the operation of starting your dialer will actually have to stop your LAN-TCPIP configuration and then start the dial-up-TCPIP one. This can be tricky if you haven't got the dialer configured correctly. Which Dialer are you using ? Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > Actually now I suspect it has something to do with Mozilla 1.4.1 as the behaviour I > mentioned in the other post only occurs when Mozilla pops up with that site not found > type of message. I guess from there it's blocking the dial up connection from being > recognised. I've had PMmail running without dialup connection, let it try and fetch my > mail, then dialed in to my ISP and PMmail has recognised the connection and fetched > accordingly, whereas after Mozilla had been running without a connection, PMmail > refused to connect after dialing in. Will test with Netscape...... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:44:00 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: dial up?? I already replied to your previous mail prior to reading this one so you have answered some of my questions. Since you yourself, have now recognised what has changed is your installation of PMFax, then I'd suggest you remove it and check that all is OK. I would recommend you switch from DOIP to Injoy dialer as it has far better capabilities and will probably bring better performance and it is far more "network savvy" that DOIP. Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > Tell a lie. PMmail also refused to connect if it tries to fetch BEFORE doip is started > (dialling that is). Is it tricked into thinking there is a network internet access? I have no > TCP/IP settings at all for any NIC. I can't remember having this trouble before. The > only thing I've done recently is install PMfax Pro, and it put it's FMD driver into config > > >Actually now I suspect it has something to do with Mozilla 1.4.1 as the behaviour I > >mentioned in the other post only occurs when Mozilla pops up with that site not found > >type of message. I guess from there it's blocking the dial up connection from being > >recognised. I've had PMmail running without dialup connection, let it try and fetch my > >mail, then dialed in to my ISP and PMmail has recognised the connection and fetched > >accordingly, whereas after Mozilla had been running without a connection, PMmail > >refused to connect after dialing in. Will test with Netscape...... > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:56:14 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? Thanks Ed, Well it's not PMfax. I do have a LAN, although I'm sure I didn't assign TCP/IP to the NIC. I'll have a look and make sure, who knows. I did have a cleanup of my HD and re-installed everything a little while back. Perhaps I DO have TCP/IP on the NIC when I didn't beforehand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:57:57 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: dial up?? If you need IP on the LAN, I can provide you with the pre and post commands you'll need to handle this. Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > Thanks Ed, > > Well it's not PMfax. I do have a LAN, although I'm sure I didn't assign TCP/IP to the > NIC. I'll have a look and make sure, who knows. I did have a cleanup of my HD and > re-installed everything a little while back. Perhaps I DO have TCP/IP on the NIC when I > didn't beforehand. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:01:50 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works Hi all, I've just got a flyer from Officew Works and they are featuring a Compaq 2168 (Athlon XP 2200+, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD, 14" TFT LCD, CD-RW/DVD combo, 56k modem and 10/100 LAN) for AUS$1499. Has anyone had any experience with this model as regards OS/2 or eCS installation on it ?? Since it's labelled Compaq rather than HP-Compaq I suspect it's a discontinued model, but it certainly seems to be a good price ! Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:14:46 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? Nah not using the LAN for anything other than peer at this stage. When I move to DSL perhaps, but not yet. I did have TCP/IP assigned. Removed it. No change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:21:07 +1100 (EDT) From: "David Forrester" Subject: Re: Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:01:50 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >Hi all, > > I've just got a flyer from Officew Works and they are featuring a >Compaq 2168 (Athlon XP 2200+, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD, 14" TFT LCD, >CD-RW/DVD combo, 56k modem and 10/100 LAN) for AUS$1499. > > Has anyone had any experience with this model as regards OS/2 or eCS >installation on it ?? > > Since it's labelled Compaq rather than HP-Compaq I suspect it's a >discontinued model, but it certainly seems to be a good price ! > I saw it too and was a little interested. But, for my use I'd have to add at least 512MB memory, and swap the drive fro a much larger. And, unfortunately, for work purposes, I need XPPro. I had a look at the Compaq/HP site and I'm disgusted. The old Compaq site contained everything needed about their older machines. Now they don't even have specs for a machine that's for a machine that less than a year old. The only useful information I could find was the download page for drivers. There seems to be three versions of this the 2168. But, other than the graphics card, there's now way to tell what the difference is. One lists a graphics driver for the "ATI Mobility U1" and the others have "ATI RS200M". Unfortunately, neither is listed as supported by SNAP. But, it's possible that they are just new names for existing chips. Sound and modem are listed as "Conexant". I don't know of any drivers for these. And I don't recognise the network cards. The PCMCIA chipset isn't listed so I can't comment on that. I also had a look at to see if an Linux users had listed details. It's not there, but, some of the machines with nearby model numbers seem similar. The 2155US seems to share a lot of the same parts. The Compaq driver download pages I found are: I don't know how much the above will help, but it's a start. -- David Forrester davidfor at internode.on dot net http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 11 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:17:27 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: dial up?? OK, and when you: 1. start Mozilla or PMMail or whatever. 2. start the dialer 3. try to access something (doesn't work) 4. bring up command prompt - type tcpstart (enter) 5. try to access again. What is the result ? Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > Nah not using the LAN for anything other than peer at this stage. When I move to DSL > perhaps, but not yet. > > I did have TCP/IP assigned. Removed it. No change. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 12 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:43:00 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Compaq laptop on sale at Office Works Hi David, I also agree on the need to upgrade memory to 512MB or more, harddisk, I could probably live with 20GB. Adding memory could be a swine if, as often is the case, all memory slots are already populated and you have to remove the existing memory and replace it (eg 2 x 128MB) rather than simply adding an extra DIMM. I found the driver download listings (for XP or W2K) as you did and I also found what appears to be a user handbook in PDF form. What I'd like is the engineers handbook. These are available on the IBM site for Thinkpads however as you say, the HP-Compaq site leaves a lot to be desired ! I have yet to checkout the connexant site although I'm less worried about drivers for the modem as drivers for the NIC. The laptop comes with XP Home. If as you say you need XP Pro for work, then perhaps work should pay for it ? There are warnings in the user manual however against installing the retail versions of XP as memory and USB errors are likely to occur if the Compaq modified versions aren't used. By the date on the user manual, it seems the model was a current model up until at least the middle of 2003, so it's not that old. Cheers/2 Ed. David Forrester wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:01:50 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > I've just got a flyer from Officew Works and they are featuring a > >Compaq 2168 (Athlon XP 2200+, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD, 14" TFT LCD, > >CD-RW/DVD combo, 56k modem and 10/100 LAN) for AUS$1499. > > > > Has anyone had any experience with this model as regards OS/2 or eCS > >installation on it ?? > > > > Since it's labelled Compaq rather than HP-Compaq I suspect it's a > >discontinued model, but it certainly seems to be a good price ! > > > > I saw it too and was a little interested. But, for my use I'd have to add at least 512MB memory, and swap the drive fro a much larger. > And, unfortunately, for work purposes, I need XPPro. > > I had a look at the Compaq/HP site and I'm disgusted. The old Compaq site contained everything needed about their older > machines. Now they don't even have specs for a machine that's for a machine that less than a year old. > > The only useful information I could find was the download page for drivers. There seems to be three versions of this the 2168. But, > other than the graphics card, there's now way to tell what the difference is. One lists a graphics driver for the "ATI Mobility U1" and > the others have "ATI RS200M". Unfortunately, neither is listed as supported by SNAP. But, it's possible that they are just new > names for existing chips. > > Sound and modem are listed as "Conexant". I don't know of any drivers for these. And I don't recognise the network cards. The > PCMCIA chipset isn't listed so I can't comment on that. > > I also had a look at to see if an Linux users had listed details. It's not there, but, some of the > machines with nearby model numbers seem similar. The 2155US seems to share a lot of the same parts. > > The Compaq driver download pages I found are: > > Windows%20XP&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software> > > Windows%20XP&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software> > > Windows%20XP&sw_lang=en&pagetype=software> > > I don't know how much the above will help, but it's a start. > -- > David Forrester > davidfor at internode.on dot net > http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 13 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:09:22 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: dial up?? No difference. No biggy, just need to remember to dial up beforehand. On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:17:27 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >OK, and when you: > >1. start Mozilla or PMMail or whatever. > >2. start the dialer > >3. try to access something (doesn't work) > >4. bring up command prompt - type tcpstart (enter) > >5. try to access again. > >What is the result ? > >Cheers/2 > >Ed. > >Gavin Miller wrote: > >> Nah not using the LAN for anything other than peer at this stage. When I move to DSL >> perhaps, but not yet. >> >> I did have TCP/IP assigned. Removed it. No change. >> > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 14 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:06:01 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: dial up?? It is years since I used DOIP, but I'm pretty sure there is a setting that allows for the problem you have. If it's "no biggy" then we probably shouldn't worry about it, especially if you're planning to move to a permanent (ADSL) connection anyway. Cheers/2 Ed. Gavin Miller wrote: > No difference. No biggy, just need to remember to dial up beforehand. > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 13:17:27 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: > > >OK, and when you: > > > >1. start Mozilla or PMMail or whatever. > > > >2. start the dialer > > > >3. try to access something (doesn't work) > > > >4. bring up command prompt - type tcpstart (enter) > > > >5. try to access again. > > > >What is the result ? > > > >Cheers/2 > > > >Ed. > > > >Gavin Miller wrote: > > > >> Nah not using the LAN for anything other than peer at this stage. When I move to > DSL > >> perhaps, but not yet. > >> > >> I did have TCP/IP assigned. Removed it. No change. > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 15 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:41:30 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Timestamps on messages - Gavin Hi Gavin, I'm just ondering whether PMMail for OS/2 has a problem similar to Post Road Mailer, because all of your messages are arriving with a timestamp one hour into the future, I see Ed's responses to your messages before your originals, with mail set to chronological order. Following message to os2user at yahoogroups dot com yesterday refers - I unfortunately deleted the original when it was all cleared up satisfactorily, so this is the edited copy from Yahoo os2user pages. ----------------------------------------- From: Steve McCrystal Date: Sat Jan 3, 2004 11:04 pm Subject: Re: LVM 'situation' ** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:12:26 +1000 Mike, > Hi Steve, As your message came in I noticed that your response came in indicating it > predated my message you were replying to. > From your headers - Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:52:25 *CDT* - I thought only the Southern > Hemisphere was on Daylight time currently :-D Must be a PostRoad Mailer thing. My TZ setting is correct in CONFIG.SYS, but there is a manual setting in PostRoad that one must remember to change twice a year. Obviously, I don't remember until someone reminds me! What's this one say? Steve ------------------------------------------ [he'd fixed it !!] TIA -- Regards, Mike Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- [ISP blocks *.exe attachments] [Please use zipped versions of above] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 16 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:12:46 +1100 (AEDT) From: "Tom Perrett" Subject: Re: Timestamps on messages - Gavin I use it too, so what happens with me, eh? Tom On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:41:30 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote: >Hi Gavin, > >I'm just ondering whether PMMail for OS/2 has a problem similar to Post >Road Mailer, >because all of your messages are arriving with a timestamp one hour into >the future, I see Ed's responses to your messages before your originals, >with mail set to chronological order. > > >Following message to os2user at yahoogroups dot com yesterday refers - I >unfortunately deleted the original when it was all cleared up >satisfactorily, so this is the edited copy from Yahoo os2user pages. >----------------------------------------- >From: Steve McCrystal >Date: Sat Jan 3, 2004 11:04 pm >Subject: Re: LVM 'situation' > >** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor Sat, 03 Jan 2004 >15:12:26 +1000 >Mike, > > > Hi Steve, As your message came in I noticed that your response came in >indicating it > > predated my message you were replying to. > > > From your headers - Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:52:25 *CDT* - I thought >only the >Southern > > Hemisphere was on Daylight time currently :-D > > Must be a PostRoad Mailer thing. My TZ setting is correct in CONFIG.SYS, >but there is a >manual setting in PostRoad that one must remember to change twice a year. >Obviously, I don't >remember until someone reminds me! > >What's this one say? > >Steve >------------------------------------------ >[he'd fixed it !!] > >TIA > >-- >Regards, >Mike > >Failed the exam for >-------------------- >MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert >-------------------- >[ISP blocks *.exe attachments] >[Please use zipped versions of above] > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 17 ==========================** Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:54:33 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Timestamps on messages - Gavin Tom Perrett wrote: >I use it too, so what happens with me, eh? > >Tom > >On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:41:30 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote: > >>Hi Gavin, >> >>I'm just wondering whether PMMail for OS/2 has a problem similar to Post Road Mailer, because all of your messages are arriving with a timestamp one hour into the future, I see Ed's responses to your messages before your originals, with mail set to chronological order. >> >>Following message to os2user at yahoogroups dot com yesterday refers - I >>unfortunately deleted the original when it was all cleared up >>satisfactorily, so this is the edited copy from Yahoo os2user pages. >>----------------------------------------- >>From: Steve McCrystal >>Date: Sat Jan 3, 2004 11:04 pm >>Subject: Re: LVM 'situation' >> >>** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor Sat, 03 Jan 2004 >>15:12:26 +1000 >>Mike, >> >>>Hi Steve, As your message came in I noticed that your response came in indicating it predated my message you were replying to. >>> >>> >>>From your headers - Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:52:25 *CDT* - I thought only the Southern >>> >>> >>>Hemisphere was on Daylight time currently :-D >>> >>> >> Must be a PostRoad Mailer thing. My TZ setting is correct in CONFIG.SYS, but there is a manual setting in PostRoad that one must remember to change twice a year. >>Obviously, I don't remember until someone reminds me! >> >>What's this one say? >> >>Steve >>------------------------------------------ >>[he'd fixed it !!] >> >>TIA >> >>-- >>Regards, >>Mike >> >> Hi Tom, Yours came in correctly timed - 5 seconds after you sent it - you sent with: Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:12:46 +1100 (AEDT) I received with: Delivery-date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:12:51 +1100 , but as I keep AEST operative all year here - 2KM south of the Qld. border it showed up in my IBMWB-Mail inbox as 18:12 So if it's not PMMail, he must have something else askew - Looking again at the headers on a recent message of his : Delivery-date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:39:09 +1100 <<< this should have shown up in my inbox as 07:39 [Standard time] - actually shows as 08:43 [Standard time] Received: from [210.8.201.190] (helo=gateway1 dot comkal dot net) by mail.kbs dot net dot au with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #6) id 1ActUA-0001kz-00 for mikeoc at dodo dot com dot au; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:39:07 +1100 Received: from ckfw dot comkal dot net (mystic dot comkal dot net [192.168.1.9]) by mail. (Weasel v1.689); 04 Jan 2004 08:38:32 +1100 Received: from silenus.impulse dot net dot au (silenus.impulse dot net dot au [210.9.195.23]) by mail. (Weasel v1.689) for ; 04 Jan 2004 08:38:26 +1100 Received: (qmail 9626 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2004 21:29:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MYHOSTNAME) (210.9.194.64) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Jan 2004 21:29:42 -0000 From: "Gavin Miller" To: "os2genau at os2 dot org dot au" Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 08:43:58 +1000 (EST) The last line is the one that's causing the problem - the TZ is set to Eastern *Standard* time, but his System clock is set to *Daylight* *Savings* time and is 14m16s fast to boot! :-( Prefacing both EST and EDT with an "A" in Australia is simpler as by definition the OS/2 system recognises EST/EDT as pertaining only to the Eastern timezone in the USA [-0500/-0400 respectively]. Please fix Gavin. -- Regards, Mike Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- [ISP blocks *.exe attachments] [Please use zipped versions of above] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------