From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:36 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1825 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 26 June 2009 Number 1825 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: USB to Parallel : Ed Durrant 2 Re: GNUCash for OS/2? : paul at smedley dot id dot au 3 Re: GNUCash for OS/2? : Ian Manners" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:15:40 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: USB to Parallel Alan Duval wrote: > Yes! I'm sure it worked. As I mentioned, I have another box which has > an ASUS M3A motherboard. I installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on this but couldn't > get ACPI or SMP working. Also it didn't have a parallel port so I > bought this USB to parallel cable and I downloaded a file from > eComStation (probably the same as mentioned above) to get the printer > recognized and installed the printer and was surprised that it worked. > I then installed eCS 2.O RC5 to see if I could get ACPI and SMP > working but couldn't so put that box in storage and went back to my > other system which has an ASUS M2V-TVM motherboard which has ACPI & > SMP working and has a parallel port. It was only recently that I > decided to see if I could use that cable to connect my printer to a > USB port to make it easy to plug in and remove when required. Also I > was thinking of getting a reserve motherboard just in case my present > one failed (I had a previous M2V-TVM failure) and a lot of the new > motherboards seem to have done away with parallel ports). > > I tried to find the spec of my present cable but couldn't, so I looked > at a number of other USB to Parallel cables and they all require WIN > or MAC systems and have software to install. One could be used with > Linux and mentioned it needed a certain driver which could be used > with the CUPS system. Hence it seems that a driver is needed to access > the printer via these cables although WIN XP detected it and I didn't > install any special driver. I don't know whether the USBP1057.ZIP > contains a driver. > > I have bought a new HD and am waiting for a removable cradle. When I > get it I will install eCS on it and do as you said. > > Regards, > > Alan > Hi Alan, I also run an ASUS M2V-TVM board here - they were a good board when they were available, for eCS. I have tried a later ASUS board the M2N-MX but it just doesn't "behave" under eCS - looking at the specs it should work but it's just not stable. I think the next M/B I go for will have to be an Intel based one as even the M2V-TVM, even though it works in SMP mode, shutdown has never worked 100% on all versions of ACPI that I have tried and to get SMP working, I have to run it is PIC, nor APIC mode. By the fact that the USB Port identifies the device ID I still think that if you can re-install eCS you'll get it working, perhaps when we get RC7 of eCS 2.0? I suspect now that the problem may be a setting in os2.ini that is creating a problem, but how you'd find it, I don't know. -- Cheers/2 Ed Checkout my new (WIP) eComStation Australia Podcast - search for eComStation at iTunes or Podcastblaster dot com or add the RSS feed http://feeds2.feedburner dot com/eComStationAustralia to Thunderbird. Don't miss the tenth Warpstock Europe at Stralsund 12-15 November 2009 check out - http://www.warpstock.eu for details. -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:17:52 +0000 From: paul at smedley dot id dot au Subject: Re: GNUCash for OS/2? Hi John, afaict, gnucash needs the Gnome toolkit - so any OS/2 port would not be straightforward. Cheers, Paul. Quoting "John Angelico" : > Hi all. > > I have been told that the FOSS personal accounting package GNUCash has > matured to something serious, and has even become multi-platform. > > See http://en.wikipedia dot org/wiki/GnuCash for details. > > Does anyone know if there is an OS/2-eCS port anywhere in the works? Does > the reference to something called Scheme preclude a port? > > > Best regards > John Angelico > OS/2 SIG > os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or > talldad at kepl dot com dot au > ___________________ > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG = ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:17:33 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: GNUCash for OS/2? >afaict, gnucash needs the Gnome toolkit - so any OS/2 port would not >be straightforward. Hadnt even noticed that, but I did find out lastnight that to port the latest scheme I need to look at my build setup. You need an older scheme to build the new scheme from what I can see, that may of may not be my problem. A new scheme might come in handy so I'll persist with that bit for a little while as a spare time project, I'm also likely to have done something a bit stupid being so tired :o) Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG