From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:01:19 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2028 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 29 December 2010 Number 2028 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 New setup : Alan Duval 2 Re: New setup : Chuck McKinnis **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:04:05 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: New setup Hi, Earlier in the year I bought a PC from MSY to try out networking with my other PC. The MSY PC was fairly basic. Motherboard is an ASUS P5G41C-M LX. It has a parallel port which I need to connect my Xerox Phaser 3125 Laser printer. It has only 1 PCIE slot and 2 PCI slots. It came with a SATA 500GB hard drive. I installed WIN 7 as I have a work program that needs it. Also installed a SCSCI card to connect my HP 4P scanner. I was surprised that onboard sound doesn't work with WIN 7, neither are there drivers for my scanner. During the Xmas break I decided to move a 500 GB SATA drive from my other PC to the MSY PC and install ECS 2.0 on it. I have an IDE hard drive in the other PC with ECS on it and had never used the SATA drive much. I'd forgotten that I had installed ECS 2.0 on the SATA drive also and to my surprise I could boot into ECS 2.0 with no problems when installed in the MSY PC. Also it recognized the onboard sound and my HP 4P scanner. The only problem I struck was that the the LAN connection wasn't recognized. This is a PCIe Gigabit LAN connection which has a Realtek RTL8168D/811D Family chip. Hence I transferred my Surecom network card to the MSY PC but couldn't get the driver installed with MPTS. THe driver is on a floppy disk and there is no floppy disk drive in the MSY box. I copied the files from the floppy to a USB stick using another PC but MPTS wouldn't add the driver to it's list. On looking at the list of drivers in MPTS I noted that Intel PRO 1000 was there and as I had an Intel Pro 1000 network card I installed this driver, removed the Surecom card and installed the Intel card. Result: - I can now access the internet and everything is working with ECS. Also ECS boots much faster than it did in my other PC which has a Gigabyte EP45UD3R motherboard. The SATA drive that I transferred also has Ubuntu 9.04 installed and I can dual boot to it. It also works well but I can only access the scanner from root even though I've written new UDEV rules for it. To use WIN 7 I have to change the boot priority in BIOS. This is a bugbear but doesn't take long. I had bought removable racks so that I could just change the racks to use the different SATA drives but found that the MSY PC doesn't have any additional 4 pin power connectors, only SATA type power connectors. Anyhow this MSY PC is working well and is quick, so I will transfer some additional files from my other PC to ECS and mothball the other PC as I have never been very impressed with the Gigabyte MB. One question: for the protocols in MPTS should I enter IBM Netbios or IBM Netbios over TCP/IP as well as IBM TCP/IP ? Regards, Alan Duval -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:34:42 -0700 From: Chuck McKinnis Subject: Re: New setup I always recommend TCP/IP and NETBIOS over TCP/IP to keep eCS compatible with the rest of the world. -- Chuck McKinnis Sandia Park, NM http://www.7cities dot net/~mckinnis/ I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. Isaiah 44:22 -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===