Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1698
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:00:35 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Monday 01 September 2008
 Number  1698
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  USB Modems and eCS : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
2  Re:  Speed up Open Office load time. : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
3  Re:  USB Modems and eCS : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>

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Date:  Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:21:48 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  USB Modems and eCS

John Angelico wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> We've been doing some experiments here with an Optus Huawei E220 USB Modem
> with broadband connection.
>
> We have been unable to persuade eCS 1.2 to find the USB modem via the
> USBCOM.SYS device.
>
> Thus #2 son Chris hasn't been using the service under eCS but only under
> Win or Linux (instructions for setup now forgotten).
>
> We also tried the instructions for Injoy we found in the Voice article
> online.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in getting a USB modem working in eCS?
>
>
>   
USB connected 3G phone (as per my article), yes, but USB 3G modem, no, I 
haven't tried that. When you are unable to persuade eCS 1.2 to find the 
modem - what do you mean by that? what exactly is (or is not) happening?

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:06:31 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Speed up Open Office load time.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:27:06 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:

Hi Ed and all.

>Start OpenOffice and click on Tools > Options to go to the configuration 
>window. Click on Memory in the left menu and change the following settings:
>
>* Number of Steps: 30
>* Use for Open Office: 128
>* Memory per Object: 20
>* Number of Objects: 20

Saw this tip somewhere else and have my settings at:
>* Number of Steps: 30	[100 now down to 30; careful work needs less undo-ing]
>* Use for Open Office: 128	[99 now up to 128]
>* Memory per Object: 20	[24Mb]
Remove from memory after:	[10 mins]
>* Number of Objects: 20	[200]

The defaults are something tiny in all the above. These give us a decent
bit of elbow room for working in, that's for sure.

>
>Click on Java in the left menu afterwards and uncheck Use a Java Runtime 
>Environment.
>

Didn't know about this one.

>Click OK and restart Open Office. It should now run faster.

Of course restarting in the same run session will look faster because base
code (SOffice.bin) is already loaded. A better test is after a reboot.

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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Date:  Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:45:00 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  USB Modems and eCS

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:21:48 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:

>John Angelico wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> We've been doing some experiments here with an Optus Huawei E220 USB Modem
>> with broadband connection.
>>
>> We have been unable to persuade eCS 1.2 to find the USB modem via the
>> USBCOM.SYS device.
>>
>> Thus #2 son Chris hasn't been using the service under eCS but only under
>> Win or Linux (instructions for setup now forgotten).
>>
>> We also tried the instructions for Injoy we found in the Voice article
>> online.
>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in getting a USB modem working in eCS?
>>
>>
>>   
>USB connected 3G phone (as per my article), yes, but USB 3G modem, no, I 
>haven't tried that. When you are unable to persuade eCS 1.2 to find the 
>modem - what do you mean by that? what exactly is (or is not) happening?
>

Hi Ed.
We have the following for USB in Config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBPRT.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBMOUSE.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBKBD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\USBCOM.SYS /n:com8 /v
device=pause.sys

COM8 selected as per VOICE article from 2006
http://www2.warpdoctor dot org/VNL/past_issuMobile Broadband under OS/2 in
Australia
Using an LG 8330 3G phone with OS/2 and eCSes/VNL0606H/feature_1.html
"Mobile Broadband under OS/2 in Australia
Using an LG 8330 3G phone with OS/2 and eCS"
by a Mr Ed Durrant, no less <VBG>

We did nothing to the modem (equivalent to the phone setup Ed described)
since it already provides net access under Win.

Instead of Injoy we tried initially to use the famous ZOC terminal
emulation/BBS program, as I still have a licence to drive it.

We set up ZOC as near as we could to Injoy's settings, except for the
TCP/IP. So we tried terminal emulation mode (VT100 for you oldies like me).

Then we tried dialling with ATDT*99# but it failed to find any COM8.

We have only one Com port (COM1 IRQ 4, 3F8) which carries an external modem
for PMFax which continues blithely unconcerned that we don't have a COM2 or
anything else COM on this MB.

My Comms stuff is a bit rusty but ISTR that, since COM1 & 2 *and* COM3 and
4 use IRQs 4 and 3 respectively, we could only use two COMs at a time: one
each of IRQ 4 and 3.

Our aim is to have eCS1.2R recognize that the only other COM port (COM2 for
preference but we don't really  care what id it has) is actually out on the
USB somewhere.
  
So the questions:
a) what have we not told you enough about?
b) what have we done that we should not?
c) what else do we still need to do?

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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