From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:01:08 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1063 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 27 February 2005 Number 1063 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Cable Select was:- Success : Mike O'Connor 2 Re: Success : Mike O'Connor 3 Re: Success : Gavin Miller 4 New Brother Printers : Dennis Nolan 5 Re: BIOS & HDD's : Alan Duval 6 Re: New Brother Printers : Ed Durrant 7 Re: BIOS & HDD's : Mike O'Connor 8 Re: New Brother Printers : Ed Durrant 9 Re: New Brother Printers : Kris Steenhaut **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:45:28 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Cable Select was:- Success Ed Durrant wrote: > Robert Traynor (BobT) wrote: > >> I disagree, Cable Select does work.! >> >> I am running two Pentium 4 systems and one Pentium 3 and ALL are >> on cable select. To work, you must have a good motherboard AND >> an 80 wire IDE cable. All computers here have two hard drives on >> the first IDE channel and Cable Select works perfectly. > > The example given here is an old board with IDE not highspeed config, > so I would expect the 40 wire cable. > > Maybe Cable select has been fixed in the latest hi-speed IDE > incarnations, but I certainly had several occasions on OS/2 systems > where CS did not work reliably, especially, as I said when different > drive manufacturers were involved. > > Cheers/2 Hi Ed, All the 80-wire cables are Cable-Select compatible. With 40-wire cables it was mandatory to use a CS-specific-cable, it didn't work with "ambiguous" 40-wire cables where the master on a channel could be connected to the intermediate connector and a slave to the end connector! Have noticed quite a few HDDs are now shipped with the jumper preset to the CS position! -- Regards, Mike Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- [ISP blocks *.exe, *.cmd, * dot com, *.bat, *.reg attachments] [Please use zipped versions of above] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:06:49 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Success Alan Duval wrote: > OK; here's my setup and what I did. > > ASUS P3V133 motherboard. > Pentium III 733 CPU > 3 IDE HDD's > 1. Quantum 40G Primary (Was installed a couple of months ago by > local PC shop when previous one failed) > 2. Quantum 40G slave (I installed this last week after previous one > failed) All jumpers removed as they were in previous HDD and on > advice from local PC shop. Worked OK for the week prior to recent > troubles. > 3. Maxtor 20G secondary HDD. Has been installed for a couple of years. > 4. Sony CD reader as slave. Has been installed a few years. > > As I wanted to install WIN XP on HDD 1 and was afraid of it affecting > eCS on HDD 2 or my backups on HDD 3, I decided the best thing to do > would be to disable HDD's 2 & 3. > I went into BIOS and changed the HDD detection from AUTO to NONE for > HDD 3. Rebooted and noted that boot screens showed HDD 3 not detected. > Then changed HDD detection from AUTO to NONE for HDD 2. Rebooted and > noted that boot screens showed only HDD 1 detected. Booted to WIN 95 > and opened Partition Magic 5 and noted that it could only see HDD 1. > As additional check opened WIN Explorer and to my surprise noted that > WIN could see partitions on HDD 2 & 3 ????????? > This astounded me and I wondered whether WIN could manipulate the > BIOS. I thought I would see what would happen if I changed HDD > detection in BIOS from AUTO to NONE for HDD 1 also. As expected no > HDD's were detected and I couldn't boot. Then changed all HDD > detection settings back to AUTO and rebooted. > > That's when things went wrong and no HDD's were detected. Nothing I > did could get the BIOS to detect any HDD. Called in the local computer > repairer. He checked the BIOS and tried resetting BIOS but to no > avail. Said system was too old and that I would be advised to buy a > new computer. When you're retired you have to watch expenses, so I > wasn't keen on this. > > Left things alone for a day then tried booting again. This time all > HDD's were detected, and I backed up extensively, physically > disconnected HDD's 2 & 3 ; installed WIN XP to remaining HDD 1 and > was able to boot to it. Closed WIN XP and used eCS CD to go to LVM to > set Boot Mgr. active. Rebooted and was able to open a copy of eCS as > well as WIN XP on HDD 1. > > Reconnected HDD's 2 & 3 . Rebooted but no HDD's detected again. > Physically disconnected HDD 3 and rebooted. This time HDD's 1 & 2 > detected and I was able to boot to my eCS on HDD 2 as well as WIN XP > on HDD 1. Closed and reconnected HDD 3. Rebooted and all HDD's > detected and continuing to do so. > It's got me mystified. > > Regards > > Alan Hi Alan, [BTW your goddam clock is waaaay out in the future again**! :-( ] Your main problem when you were *hiding* the drives was that you should have been disabling the second IDE controller -- not making it "none" for specific HDDs, as OS/2 [forever] & hence eCS [and Linux, also Windoze since WIN-NT] interrogate the actual ports, independent of the BIOS, to determine whether there is a disk attached as master or slave to all non-BIOS-disabled controllers. Having the CD on the secondary controller means that both Primary and secondary IDE controllers *have* to be enabled in order to have it visible to *any* OS, and thus all HDDs are visible to modern OSes! Consequently you would also need to attach the CD as the *primary* slave, in order to only have HDD1 and the CD visible for the WXP installation. I have all my primary/secondary master HDDs in removable drawers [two on each system], making it easy to reverse/remove primary and secondary masters and I put my CD-ROM/CD-RW-R permanently on the primary slave position. I get absolutely no speed reduction on the master on that channel [ATA100]. Means I never have to open the case to swap master drives around, and consequently the old days of knuckle-scraping are loooong gone. I'm not using Cable Select, just regular master/slave jumpering. Another point is that in addition to OS/2-MCP1 & later, hence also any eCS, along with WinNT+ [4/2000/XP/2003], the LVM [M$ Disk Management Tools] can set any drive to any available driveletter, and neither has to have the volumes in alphabetic sequence! On this system [which has an external SCSI CD-ROM attached] (under OS/2-eCS) when booted from IDE disk 1 or IDE disk 2 or from drive 3 [an internal SCSI] drive C: is always the final partition on the primary slave disk. When booted to W2KPro from Disk 1 *it* is C: [W: in OS/2-eCS] and virtually all other volumes/partitions are hidden from it, for protection ;-) ]. HTH ** from your headers: Delivery-date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:52:28 +1100 Received: from [202.136.32.34] (helo=postoffice01.mail-hub.kbs dot net dot au) by mail02.mail-hub.kbs dot net dot au with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D4zYh-0001RO-ST for mikeoc at dodo dot com dot au; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:52:28 +1100 Received: from [210.8.201.190] (helo=gateway1 dot comkal dot net) by postoffice01.mail-hub.kbs dot net dot au with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D4zZ0-0008D4-F5 for mikeoc at dodo dot com dot au; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:52:46 +1100 Received: from gateway1 dot comkal dot net (gateway1 dot comkal dot net [192.168.1.9]) by mail. 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(Weasel v1.72) for ; 26 Feb 2005 21:52:27 +1100 Received: from ozemail dot com dot au ([203.61.175.96]) by smta10.mail.ozemail dot net with ESMTP id <20050226105217.TAUM19720.smta10.mail.ozemail dot net at ozemail dot com dot au> for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:52:17 +0000 Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:52:05 +0000 <<-------- Here's the problem *** From: Alan Duval *** this is setting your origination timestamp as being in London, UK [UTC +0000] and is the reason your messages show up here as coming from 11:00 into the future -- that line should read "21:52:05 +1100" What shows up when you type "SET TZ" at the command line? -- Regards, Mike Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- [ISP blocks *.exe, *.cmd, * dot com, *.bat, *.reg attachments] [Please use zipped versions of above] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:26:07 +1100 From: Gavin Miller Subject: Re: Success Yes Kev my friend; you are :-) btw that config file you sent me... whoa! It just goes forever. Nice and neat though. Cheers G Kev wrote: > Hi Alan > > Alan Duval wrote: > >> I mainly got it just in case I have trouble using a DVD burner which >> is my next project. However Kev seems to know how to set up RSJ so I >> have high hopes. > > > Cor, mate. All the discussion around this subject just recently was > the 1st time I found out that I'm the only one achieving that level of > success. As for knowing how to set up RSJ - I just install it and it > works for me. I do hope it's that easy for you. > > Kev ========================= > Kev Downes > kdownes at tpg dot com dot au ph 0404 7 0808 2 > Windows isn't the answer. Windows is the question. The answer is NO! > I use, recommend and support OS/2 Warp and eComStation. ========================= > "Jesus Christ is the centre of everything and the object of everything; > He who does not know him, knows nothing of the order of the world > and nothing of himself." Blaise Pascal ========================= > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:20:05 +1100 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: New Brother Printers Hi all I just come across this post in one of the newsgroups, and as I'm receiving brochures for brother printers in magazines and as junk-mail, O thought it might be of interest to someone. Quote Managed to get this combination working the other day and thought I should pass along what I had learned. This all started when my Epson Stylus C84 died a few days ago. It reported "empty" on its Black cartridge and I replaced it, but then the printer stopped feeding any black ink. After installing a second $20 cartridge and checking for an obviously loose vacuum hose I gave up on it. Unfortunately, in spite of several decades' worth of "Paperless Future" headlines I find I frequently need hard copy output. It seemed an opportune timeto see if I could get my sister Beth's Christmas present working: a Brother MFC-420CN multi-function peripheral with USB and Ethernet ports. http://solutions.brother dot com/mfc420cn_us/en_us/ The MFC-420CN has roughly the footprint of an 8.5x11 scanner and about twice its thickness. It has a paper feed on top, a front panel with a set of numeric/dial buttons, and a small 2-line LCD status display. It has a 100-sheet paper tray underneath and a set of front slots for digital media cards (CF/SD/xD/SM/MemoryStick). The MCF-420CN will perform most of its functions on its own. Using its front panel controls you can FAX to it or from it, use it as a B&W or color copier, and print JPEG images from -- or scan into PDF/JPEG files on -- a digital media card. In fact (although I haven't tested it) it appears that any computer and OS which can read and write (e.g.) CF cards can make full (if slighly inconvenient) use of this device. I didn't need all that -- I just wanted to use it as one of those "print when _I_ say Print" printers. The MFC-420CN does not come with OS/2 drivers (disappointing, but not all that unusual these days). I spent a few hours unsuccessfully searching the 'web for hints on possible alternate drivers before I connected the MFC's Ethernet port to my office network, set up its IP address as 192.168.0.99, and installed the MSWin32 drivers and software on my Win2k machine to make sure it printed. It did. I have a SuSE Linux machine ('manticore') on the same network which lets me create PDF files through a network (Samba) printer. This meant I could use the MFC-420CN by printing-to-PDF, copying the PDF file onto the Win2k machine, and printing the contents from the Win32 Acrobat reader. Usable in a pinch (and _much_ better than shuffling CF cards), but still inconvenient. From OS/2 I could PING the printer, but it didn't appear in a NET VIEW, and although I could set up a SHARE for the Win2k machine's "printer" I still didn't have an OS/2 driver to create the printstream it would require. I _did_ have a number of PostScript drivers already installed, though. Linux to the rescue (SuSE Linux 9.1 and Samba 3.0.8-1.1.1-SuSE, to be exact). Brother may not be developing OS/2 drivers but it _did_ recently release Linux drivers for a number of its printers, including the MFC-420CN. http://solutions.brother dot com/linux/en_us/index.html Brother offers an LPR driver and a CUPS "wrapper" file: MFC420CNlpr-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm cupswrapperMFC420CN-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm as well as SANE 1.0.7+ scanner support: brscan-0.0.12-0.i386.rpm brother-sane-src-1.0.0-r011.tar.gz After installing the print-related RPMs I defined the printer using SuSE's YaST2 configuration utility under Hardware->Printer as: Name: mfc420cn Descr: MFC420CN [*] Do Local Filtering Mfgr: Brother Model: MFC-420CN (which selected the CUPS PPD file) Connection: Direct TCP Port Printer Host name: brn_60fb75 Port: 9100 (Note: the "host name" and other settings can be obtained from the MFC-420CN's front panel as the LAN Configuration Report by pressing [Menu/Set], [6], [6], and [BlackStart] ) The host name brn_60fb75 had to be entered manually -- YaST2's [Lookup] button failed to find it. At this point, the [Test remote socket access] button reported success and the test page printed properly. Further, after restarting manticore's Samba daemons (smbd, nmbd) I could see a corresponding printer on my OS/2 desktop under "Samba Server" in my Connections->Network->File_and_Print_Client_Resource_Browser folder. From the icon's Properties notebook I chose the PSCRIPT.Tektronix Phaser 550 1200 icon and set up appropriate Job Property defaults. Close, but no see-gar. I could print to the MFC420 "printer" (LS:\\MANTICORE\MFC420CN), the job was visibly queued under OS/2, that job was requeued by the Linux CUPS printing system as shown by http://localhost:631/ and the MFC-420CN reported "Receiving Data" on its LCD panel. All good evidence of activity, but but nothing ever printed. Jobs created on the Linux machine printed just fine, and their CUPS spool files _looked_ similar to what was spooled for OS/2 jobs. Here's the process: 1) OS/2 application "prints" to the PSCRIPT driver, generating a PostScript stream to Samba on the Linux box. 2) The PostScript stream is queued by CUPS, which then (courtesy of the Brother Linux driver) translates it to MFC-420CN-specific raster commands. 3) This raster stream is sent to 192.168.0.99:9100. What was wrong? I'll compress three hours of fuzzy-headed thinking for you: by default, Samba was supplying CUPS with a 'raw' option for the incoming stream, so CUPS was dumping un-rasterized PostScript out to the MFC-420 and it was getting a bit confused. After using SWAT http://localhost:901/ to clear out the "cups options" field in Samba's mfc420 printer entry and once again cycling power on the MFC-420CN everything worked just fine. It's wonderful! DeScribe prints just fine, and even crusty old WindowsDraw should be happy once I define an appropriate WinOS2 remote printer. Is this a general solution? I don't know, but it's at least an option in some situations. If you have a printer but it doesn't have an OS/2 driver -- but the manufacturer offers a Linux driver for it or there's one at www.linuxprinting dot org -- build yourself a Linux-based print server. Pick up one of those Dell run-forever Optiplex PII-300 machines which are selling for $25-50 these days, throw on SuSE, RedHat, or Debian Linux, and you have a print server with Ethernet, USB, and onboard video. Scanning? Works fine onto a 16 Mb CF card and stores the result in a folder on the card named Brother. FAXing? ... maybe tomorrow. Stuff I haven't looked into: 1) The MFC-420CN's Network Configuration report lists (including FTP!) and . One of the Services is POSTSCRIPT_P1, which _seems_ to imply that the printer might accept PostScript directed at it in some fashion. I'm just not sure how to test it. 2) Brother offers a Java-based 'web administration tool for Win32. It's not _entirely_ clear why this wouldn't run under Apache and Linux or OS/2, but it's a 25Mb download. If the protocol could be extracted an OS/2 or Linux tool could be created. Hope this helps... Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887 Regards Dennis. Munged E-mail: frank uscore mckenney ayut minds pring dawt cahm (y'all) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:28:41 +0000 From: Alan Duval Subject: Re: BIOS & HDD's Mike O'Connor wrote: > > *** this is setting your origination timestamp as being in London, UK > [UTC +0000] and is the reason your messages show up here as coming > from 11:00 into the future -- that line should read "21:52:05 +1100" > > What shows up when you type "SET TZ" at the command line? > This: [G:\]SET TZ TZ=AEST-10AEDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 [G:\] How do I fix this? Thanks for the explanation of HDD problems. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:42:57 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: New Brother Printers Dennis Nolan wrote: > Hi all > > I just come across this post in one of the newsgroups, and as I'm > receiving brochures for brother printers in magazines and as junk-mail, > O thought it might be of interest to someone. > > Quote > > Managed to get this combination working the other day and thought I > should pass along what I had learned. > This all started when my Epson Stylus C84 died a few days ago. It > reported "empty" on its Black cartridge and I replaced it, but then > the printer stopped feeding any black ink. After installing a > second $20 cartridge and checking for an obviously loose vacuum hose > I gave up on it. > > Unfortunately, in spite of several decades' worth of "Paperless > Future" headlines I find I frequently need hard copy output. It > seemed an opportune timeto see if I could get my sister Beth's > Christmas present working: a Brother MFC-420CN multi-function > peripheral with USB and Ethernet ports. > > http://solutions.brother dot com/mfc420cn_us/en_us/ > > The MFC-420CN has roughly the footprint of an 8.5x11 scanner and > about twice its thickness. It has a paper feed on top, a front > panel with a set of numeric/dial buttons, and a small 2-line LCD > status display. It has a 100-sheet paper tray underneath and a set > of front slots for digital media cards (CF/SD/xD/SM/MemoryStick). > > The MCF-420CN will perform most of its functions on its own. Using > its front panel controls you can FAX to it or from it, use it as a > B&W or color copier, and print JPEG images from -- or scan into > PDF/JPEG files on -- a digital media card. In fact (although I > haven't tested it) it appears that any computer and OS which can > read and write (e.g.) CF cards can make full (if slighly > inconvenient) use of this device. I didn't need all that -- I just > wanted to use it as one of those "print when _I_ say Print" > printers. > > The MFC-420CN does not come with OS/2 drivers (disappointing, but > not all that unusual these days). I spent a few hours > unsuccessfully searching the 'web for hints on possible alternate > drivers before I connected the MFC's Ethernet port to my office > network, set up its IP address as 192.168.0.99, and installed the > MSWin32 drivers and software on my Win2k machine to make sure it > printed. It did. > > I have a SuSE Linux machine ('manticore') on the same network which > lets me create PDF files through a network (Samba) printer. This > meant I could use the MFC-420CN by printing-to-PDF, copying the PDF > file onto the Win2k machine, and printing the contents from the > Win32 Acrobat reader. Usable in a pinch (and _much_ better than > shuffling CF cards), but still inconvenient. > >> From OS/2 I could PING the printer, but it didn't appear in a NET > > VIEW, and although I could set up a SHARE for the Win2k machine's > "printer" I still didn't have an OS/2 driver to create the > printstream it would require. I _did_ have a number of PostScript > drivers already installed, though. > > Linux to the rescue (SuSE Linux 9.1 and Samba 3.0.8-1.1.1-SuSE, to > be exact). Brother may not be developing OS/2 drivers but it _did_ > recently release Linux drivers for a number of its printers, > including the MFC-420CN. > > http://solutions.brother dot com/linux/en_us/index.html > > Brother offers an LPR driver and a CUPS "wrapper" file: > > MFC420CNlpr-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm > cupswrapperMFC420CN-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm > > as well as SANE 1.0.7+ scanner support: > > brscan-0.0.12-0.i386.rpm > brother-sane-src-1.0.0-r011.tar.gz > > After installing the print-related RPMs I defined the printer using > SuSE's YaST2 configuration utility under Hardware->Printer as: > > Name: mfc420cn Descr: MFC420CN [*] Do Local Filtering > Mfgr: Brother Model: MFC-420CN > (which selected the CUPS PPD file) > Connection: Direct TCP Port Printer > Host name: brn_60fb75 Port: 9100 > > (Note: the "host name" and other settings can be obtained from > the MFC-420CN's front panel as the LAN Configuration Report by > pressing [Menu/Set], [6], [6], and [BlackStart] ) > > The host name brn_60fb75 had to be entered manually -- YaST2's > [Lookup] button failed to find it. > > At this point, the [Test remote socket access] button reported > success and the test page printed properly. Further, after > restarting manticore's Samba daemons (smbd, nmbd) I could see a > corresponding printer on my OS/2 desktop under "Samba Server" in my > Connections->Network->File_and_Print_Client_Resource_Browser folder. > >> From the icon's Properties notebook I chose the PSCRIPT.Tektronix > > Phaser 550 1200 icon and set up appropriate Job Property defaults. > > Close, but no see-gar. I could print to the MFC420 "printer" > (LS:\\MANTICORE\MFC420CN), the job was visibly queued under OS/2, > that job was requeued by the Linux CUPS printing system as shown by > > http://localhost:631/ > > and the MFC-420CN reported "Receiving Data" on its LCD panel. All > good evidence of activity, but but nothing ever printed. Jobs > created on the Linux machine printed just fine, and their CUPS spool > files _looked_ similar to what was spooled for OS/2 jobs. > > Here's the process: > > 1) OS/2 application "prints" to the PSCRIPT driver, generating a > PostScript stream to Samba on the Linux box. > 2) The PostScript stream is queued by CUPS, which then (courtesy of > the Brother Linux driver) translates it to MFC-420CN-specific raster > commands. > 3) This raster stream is sent to 192.168.0.99:9100. > > What was wrong? I'll compress three hours of fuzzy-headed thinking > for you: by default, Samba was supplying CUPS with a 'raw' option > for the incoming stream, so CUPS was dumping un-rasterized > PostScript out to the MFC-420 and it was getting a bit confused. > After using SWAT > > http://localhost:901/ > > to clear out the "cups options" field in Samba's mfc420 printer > entry and once again cycling power on the MFC-420CN everything > worked just fine. > > It's wonderful! DeScribe prints just fine, and even crusty old > WindowsDraw should be happy once I define an appropriate WinOS2 remote > printer. > > Is this a general solution? I don't know, but it's at least an > option in some situations. If you have a printer but it doesn't > have an OS/2 driver -- but the manufacturer offers a Linux driver > for it or there's one at www.linuxprinting dot org -- build yourself a > Linux-based print server. Pick up one of those Dell run-forever > Optiplex PII-300 machines which are selling for $25-50 these days, > throw on SuSE, RedHat, or Debian Linux, and you have a print server > with Ethernet, USB, and onboard video. > > Scanning? Works fine onto a 16 Mb CF card and stores the result in > a folder on the card named Brother. FAXing? ... maybe tomorrow. > > > Stuff I haven't looked into: > > 1) The MFC-420CN's Network Configuration report lists > (including FTP!) and . One of the Services is > POSTSCRIPT_P1, which _seems_ to imply that the printer might > accept PostScript directed at it in some fashion. I'm just not sure > how to test it. > > 2) Brother offers a Java-based 'web administration tool for Win32. > It's not _entirely_ clear why this wouldn't run under Apache and > Linux or OS/2, but it's a 25Mb download. If the protocol could be > extracted an OS/2 or Linux tool could be created. > > Hope this helps... > > > Frank McKenney, McKenney Associates > Richmond, Virginia / (804) 320-4887 > > Regards > Dennis. > Hi Dennis, There's been a thread running for some time on the ECS-Technical newslist related to the Brother MFC620CN. This the next model up from the 420 with an auto sheet feeder and answering machine built in, but based on a similar concept to the model you have. The manual for the 620CN actually refers to printing to the printer from OS/2 !! The IBM PCL driver lists several Brother MFC printer models, but, in the version that I have - these new models are not listed. I would not be surprised to find that one of the existing drivers will work with the printer. Brother printers have always emulated HP PCL (Laserjet) printers as one of their options. There is an OS/2er in the UK trying to sort this out. Other features of the MFC620CN include the ability to scan a document to an camera memory card plugged into the device or to internal memory from where it can be access via FTP from your OS/2 system (hence no need for SANE/2 support). The fact that the printer is ethernet as well as USB attachable and runs and LPD server makes it a great cross-platform network based printer. As for administration, most iteams "should" be configurable from the front panel. The write up about the web based tool (Java app) refers to running it on a web server, I don't understand why this should not be accessible from any platform running JAVA and able to talk to the printers internal web server - maybe SNMP is required ? It may also be possible to run the Win32 management tool under ODIN, it certainly should work from within SVista/2 or VPC/2. All in all, both the MFC420CN (AUS$250 at computer market) and MFC620CN (AUS$350 at computer market) from Brother are worth a look, especially if it's time to replace your fax machine, printer and scanner. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:48:22 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: BIOS & HDD's Alan Duval wrote: > Mike O'Connor wrote: > >> *** this is setting your origination timestamp as being in London, UK >> [UTC +0000] and is the reason your messages show up here as coming >> from 11:00 into the future -- that line should read "21:52:05 +1100" >> >> What shows up when you type "SET TZ" at the command line? > > This: > > [G:\]SET TZ > TZ=AEST-10AEDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 > > [G:\] > > How do I fix this? > > Thanks for the explanation of HDD problems. You're welcome - *lots* of users don't seem to realise about direct port access to the HDDs by OSes! > Alan Hi Alan, As a Quick'n'Dirty fix -- just change your config.sys to read SET TZ=AEDT-11, and reboot As a quick check, before rebooting you could start Mozilla from a cmd-file that has "SET TZ=AEDT-11" as the first statement, so that it uses that as the TZ setting - which will work until the end of DST, at which time you can modify it to read "SET TZ=AEST-10". -- Regards, Mike Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- [ISP blocks *.exe, *.cmd, * dot com, *.bat, *.reg attachments] [Please use zipped versions of above] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:07:44 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: New Brother Printers Here's the reference for your MFC410CN printer, networking manual. http://global.solutions.brother dot com/mfc410cn_eu_as/en_us/download/nu_guide.html Go there and press on the download button for the English - asia pacific manual (PDF file) - and look at section 4, first page and you will see OS/2 Warp referenced as being supported. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:51:21 +0100 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: New Brother Printers Ed Durrant schreef: > will see OS/2 Warp referenced as being supported. But other than that, you are completely at your own (if you are os2/ecs user). -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------