Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1939
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:01:17 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Sunday 11 April 2010
 Number  1939
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Subjects for today
 
1   OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE! : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
2  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE! : Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
3  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE! : Peter L Allen <allenpl at tastelfibre dot com dot au>
4  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE! : Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
5  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE! : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
6   SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!) : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
7  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!) : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
8  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: : Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
9   eCUPS : Alan Duval <amoht at westnet dot com dot au>
10  Re:  eCUPS : Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
11  Re:  eCUPS : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>
12  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: 	Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!) : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
13  Re:  eCUPS : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
14  Re:  eCUPS : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:23:08 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!

Hi,

  This is totally not OS/2 related (but an eCS/OS2 LVMed and formatted 
card could concievibly create the same problem).

  I have just upgraded my wife's PC from Vista to Windoze 7 (installing 
an SSD drive to replace the spinning drive at the same time). The system 
runs far better than before!

  I do however also want to backup her key data to an external removable 
store. As I have a mouse pad with included 4 port USB 2.0 hub and SDHC 
card reader/writer, an 8GB SD card seems a very good option!

  I have tried both the Windoze 7 included backup software and a 
commercial product, bith hit the same problem, part way through the 
backup it fails and a pop-up appears asking you what you want to do with 
the newly inserted SD card (play videos, open in explorer etc). Of 
course it hasn't been just plugged in but rather was there the  whole 
time! So something is screwy - I search and found the following article 
which may explain the problem;

http://www.thewindowsplanet dot com/sd-card-not-recognized-problem-in-windows-7

In short Microsoft have modified their SD card driver so that it no 
longer supports some SD cards that Vista and XP did support and only 
100% compliant to standards cards (read those companies who partner with 
Microsoft) are supported now.

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:29:43 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Voytek Eymont" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!

<quote who="Ed Durrant">

I'm just waiting to see you featured on the next MS commercial:

---------------
I have just upgraded my wife's PC from Vista to Windoze 7 ....
The system runs far better than before!

On PC, Windoze 7 was my idea
---------------

g,d&r

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:49:55 +1000
From:  Peter L Allen <allenpl at tastelfibre dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!

Prolly no relevance - but - some time back a user complained that a device 
similar to below wouldn't read their card, winXP. After poking about 
disconnected the mouse from the hub and used a MB port - fixed!

On Sunday 11 April 2010 10:23:08 Ed Durrant wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   This is totally not OS/2 related (but an eCS/OS2 LVMed and formatted
> card could concievibly create the same problem).
>
>   I have just upgraded my wife's PC from Vista to Windoze 7 (installing
> an SSD drive to replace the spinning drive at the same time). The system
> runs far better than before!
>
>   I do however also want to backup her key data to an external removable
> store. As I have a mouse pad with included 4 port USB 2.0 hub and SDHC
> card reader/writer, an 8GB SD card seems a very good option!
>
>   I have tried both the Windoze 7 included backup software and a
> commercial product, bith hit the same problem, part way through the
> backup it fails and a pop-up appears asking you what you want to do with
> the newly inserted SD card (play videos, open in explorer etc). Of
> course it hasn't been just plugged in but rather was there the  whole
> time! So something is screwy - I search and found the following article
> which may explain the problem;
>
> http://www.thewindowsplanet dot com/sd-card-not-recognized-problem-in-windows-7
>
> In short Microsoft have modified their SD card driver so that it no
> longer supports some SD cards that Vista and XP did support and only
> 100% compliant to standards cards (read those companies who partner with
> Microsoft) are supported now.

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:36:26 +0800
From:  Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
Subject:  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!

Hi All.

My wife's eeetop ET1602 has multiple USB ports and 1 built in Card
Reader. eCs will not recognise the built in card reader, but will
recognise a portable DSE Card Reader plugged into one of these ports.

I also found that, on reading the link, if I placed the mouse over the
active word "standards", advertisments for a gaming institution came
up. Don't know what to make of that.

On 11 April 2010 09:49, Peter L Allen <allenpl at tastelfibre dot com dot au> wrote:
> Prolly no relevance - but - some time back a user complained that a device
> similar to below wouldn't read their card, winXP. After poking about
> disconnected the mouse from the hub and used a MB port - fixed!
>
>
> On Sunday 11 April 2010 10:23:08 Ed Durrant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   This is totally not OS/2 related (but an eCS/OS2 LVMed and formatted
>> card could concievibly create the same problem).
>>
>>   I have just upgraded my wife's PC from Vista to Windoze 7 (installing
>> an SSD drive to replace the spinning drive at the same time). The system
>> runs far better than before!
>>
>>   I do however also want to backup her key data to an external removable
>> store. As I have a mouse pad with included 4 port USB 2.0 hub and SDHC
>> card reader/writer, an 8GB SD card seems a very good option!
>>
>>   I have tried both the Windoze 7 included backup software and a
>> commercial product, bith hit the same problem, part way through the
>> backup it fails and a pop-up appears asking you what you want to do with
>> the newly inserted SD card (play videos, open in explorer etc). Of
>> course it hasn't been just plugged in but rather was there the  whole
>> time! So something is screwy - I search and found the following article
>> which may explain the problem;
>>
>> http://www.thewindowsplanet dot com/sd-card-not-recognized-problem-in-windows-7
>>
>> In short Microsoft have modified their SD card driver so that it no
>> longer supports some SD cards that Vista and XP did support and only
>> 100% compliant to standards cards (read those companies who partner with
>> Microsoft) are supported now.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:11:50 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!

Hi Peter,

  I don't think that's relevant given that MS have a KB article on the 
exact problem. the system has a USB mouse but that's connected directly 
to the PC on another USB port,  not via the hub/card reader.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Peter L Allen wrote:
> Prolly no relevance - but - some time back a user complained that a device 
> similar to below wouldn't read their card, winXP. After poking about 
> disconnected the mouse from the hub and used a MB port - fixed!
>
>
> On Sunday 11 April 2010 10:23:08 Ed Durrant wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>   This is totally not OS/2 related (but an eCS/OS2 LVMed and formatted
>> card could concievibly create the same problem).
>>
>>   I have just upgraded my wife's PC from Vista to Windoze 7 (installing
>> an SSD drive to replace the spinning drive at the same time). The system
>> runs far better than before!
>>
>>   I do however also want to backup her key data to an external removable
>> store. As I have a mouse pad with included 4 port USB 2.0 hub and SDHC
>> card reader/writer, an 8GB SD card seems a very good option!
>>
>>   I have tried both the Windoze 7 included backup software and a
>> commercial product, bith hit the same problem, part way through the
>> backup it fails and a pop-up appears asking you what you want to do with
>> the newly inserted SD card (play videos, open in explorer etc). Of
>> course it hasn't been just plugged in but rather was there the  whole
>> time! So something is screwy - I search and found the following article
>> which may explain the problem;
>>
>> http://www.thewindowsplanet dot com/sd-card-not-recognized-problem-in-windows-7
>>
>> In short Microsoft have modified their SD card driver so that it no
>> longer supports some SD cards that Vista and XP did support and only
>> 100% compliant to standards cards (read those companies who partner with
>> Microsoft) are supported now.
>>     
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>  
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>
>   

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:15:07 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!)

Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> My wife's eeetop ET1602 has multiple USB ports and 1 built in Card
> Reader. eCs will not recognise the built in card reader, but will
> recognise a portable DSE Card Reader plugged into one of these ports.
>
>   
That's surprising, I have no problems with the built in reader in EeePC 
701 and EeePC900HA netbooks, under eCS.

I wonder if the ET1602 has an SD (as opposed to SDHC) reader in it? The 
external reader being SDHC.
> I also found that, on reading the link, if I placed the mouse over the
> active word "standards", advertisments for a gaming institution came
> up. Don't know what to make of that.
>   
Odd, was that in Firefox or Thunderbird / ThunderBrowse?

> On 11 April 2010 09:49, Peter L Allen <allenpl at tastelfibre dot com dot au> wrote:
>   
>> Prolly no relevance - but - some time back a user complained that a device
>> similar to below wouldn't read their card, winXP. After poking about
>> disconnected the mouse from the hub and used a MB port - fixed!
>>
>>
>> On Sunday 11 April 2010 10:23:08 Ed Durrant wrote:
>>     
>>

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Ed

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:22:17 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!)

On 2010-04-11 14:15, Ed Durrant wrote:
> Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> My wife's eeetop ET1602 has multiple USB ports and 1 built in Card
>> Reader. eCs will not recognise the built in card reader, but will
>> recognise a portable DSE Card Reader plugged into one of these ports.
>>
> That's surprising, I have no problems with the built in reader in 
> EeePC 701 and EeePC900HA netbooks, under eCS.
>
> I wonder if the ET1602 has an SD (as opposed to SDHC) reader in it? 
> The external reader being SDHC.

Hi Ed, nick,

Wasn't it always a "given" that eCS-OS/2 *didn't* support internal 
USB-connected readers?
When I was scouting around for a SDHC for my NSW Homecare guy's 
EeePC-1000H, the only one of all those that I tried that it would read 
was a 4GB Panasonic Class 6 (discounted to $58, at the time)!

Regards,
Mike

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:53:25 +0800
From:  Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
Subject:  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT:

Hi All

On 11 April 2010 12:22, Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net> wrote:
> On 2010-04-11 14:15, Ed Durrant wrote:
>>
>> Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All.
>>>
>>> My wife's eeetop ET1602 has multiple USB ports and 1 built in Card
>>> Reader. eCs will not recognise the built in card reader, but will
>>> recognise a portable DSE Card Reader plugged into one of these ports.
>>>
>> That's surprising, I have no problems with the built in reader in EeePC
>> 701 and EeePC900HA netbooks, under eCS.
>>
>> I wonder if the ET1602 has an SD (as opposed to SDHC) reader in it? The
>> external reader being SDHC.

Retested it this afternoon.

SanDisk 2.0GiB SD Card with pics from a Nikon 220 DigiCamera.

eeepc 4G Surf (probably just a light blue PC701) works perfectly

eeetop ET1602. Will not register a drive either by CLI or the Drives Object..

Haven't got DFSee set up on this yet...my 5 min tenure is up :-) I
would guess that it probably does.

Regards

NICK

>
> Hi Ed, nick,
>
> Wasn't it always a "given" that eCS-OS/2 *didn't* support internal
> USB-connected readers?
> When I was scouting around for a SDHC for my NSW Homecare guy's EeePC-1000H,
> the only one of all those that I tried that it would read was a 4GB
> Panasonic Class 6 (discounted to $58, at the time)!
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:25:18 +1100
From:  Alan Duval <amoht at westnet dot com dot au>
Subject:   eCUPS

My HP 960C printer has started malfunctioning so I bought a HP Officejet 
Pro 5300 and in trying to get it to work have downloaded eCUPS003.wpi 
and installed it but I am unable to use eCups. I type  
http://localhost:631/ in Firefox but can't access the site. If I could 
the instructions say to open 'admin', check 'allow remote 
administration' and then click change settings button'.Apparently a 
password has to be then entered, but I don't use a password in eCs.
Then instructions say to run lpinfo -v. There is no such command in eCs 
so I am totally confused.
 Could someone advise what to do?

Thanks,

Alan Duval
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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:50:55 +1000
From:  Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net>
Subject:  Re:  eCUPS

On 2010-04-11 18:25, Alan Duval wrote:
> My HP 960C printer has started malfunctioning so I bought a HP 
> Officejet Pro 5300 and in trying to get it to work have downloaded 
> eCUPS003.wpi and installed it but I am unable to use eCups. I type  
> http://localhost:631/ in Firefox but can't access the site. If I could 
> the instructions say to open 'admin', check 'allow remote 
> administration' and then click change settings button'.Apparently a 
> password has to be then entered, but I don't use a password in eCs.
> Then instructions say to run lpinfo -v. There is no such command in 
> eCs so I am totally confused.
> Could someone advise what to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Duval

Hi Alan,

sorry I can't help you, but just to confirm, I also don't have any file 
by that name either on eCSV2.0RC7 (Silver) or any other of a bunch of 
volumes. I also don't currently have eCUPS installed here, in case it 
was included with it.

Regards,
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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:08:53 +0845
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>
Subject:  Re:  eCUPS

Hi Alan,

On 11/04/10 17:10, Alan Duval wrote:
> My HP 960C printer has started malfunctioning so I bought a HP Officejet
> Pro 5300 and in trying to get it to work have downloaded eCUPS003.wpi
> and installed it but I am unable to use eCups. I type
> http://localhost:631/ in Firefox but can't access the site. If I could
> the instructions say to open 'admin', check 'allow remote
> administration' and then click change settings button'.Apparently a
> password has to be then entered, but I don't use a password in eCs.
> Then instructions say to run lpinfo -v. There is no such command in eCs
> so I am totally confused.
> Could someone advise what to do?
cc: sent o you directly as my mails to the mailing list sometimes get 
treated as spam...

Firstly - whilst I didn't create the ecups003.wpi - I did port cups + 
gutenprint, etc - so I can probably help :)

I'm assuming the warpin has correctly created all the folders - do you 
have a \cups & \gutenprint ?

Has cupsd.exe been started? I think the .wpi adds it to startup - did 
you reboot after installing? If not, you can load it manually by double 
clicking the object.

Given that you're using a HP - you may also want to download my port of 
hplip which iirc i added to http://svn dot netlabs dot org/ecups

Hope this helps,

Paul
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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:35:49 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  SD Card readers under eCS WAS:(Re:  OT: 	Windows 7 and SD cards - BEWARE!)

Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> On 11 April 2010 12:22, Mike O'Connor <mikeoc at internode.on dot net> wrote:
>   
>> On 2010-04-11 14:15, Ed Durrant wrote:
>>     
>>> Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi All.
>>>>
>>>> My wife's eeetop ET1602 has multiple USB ports and 1 built in Card
>>>> Reader. eCs will not recognise the built in card reader, but will
>>>> recognise a portable DSE Card Reader plugged into one of these ports.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> That's surprising, I have no problems with the built in reader in EeePC
>>> 701 and EeePC900HA netbooks, under eCS.
>>>
>>> I wonder if the ET1602 has an SD (as opposed to SDHC) reader in it? The
>>> external reader being SDHC.
>>>       
>
> Retested it this afternoon.
>
> SanDisk 2.0GiB SD Card with pics from a Nikon 220 DigiCamera.
>
> eeepc 4G Surf (probably just a light blue PC701) works perfectly
>
> eeetop ET1602. Will not register a drive either by CLI or the Drives Object.
>
> Haven't got DFSee set up on this yet...my 5 min tenure is up :-) I
> would guess that it probably does.
>
> Regards
>
> NICK
>
>   
> ===========================================
>   
Is the ET1602 running Windows 7? If so you probably have the problem 
that I originally referred to.

If both the 4G Surf (no webcam version of the 701) and the ET1602 are 
both running eCS 2.0 Silver (or at least the same version of an 
operating system), then this points to a deficiency in the ET1602's 
hardware.

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:37:45 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  eCUPS

Alan Duval wrote:
> My HP 960C printer has started malfunctioning so I bought a HP 
> Officejet Pro 5300 and in trying to get it to work have downloaded 
> eCUPS003.wpi and installed it but I am unable to use eCups. I type  
> http://localhost:631/ in Firefox but can't access the site. If I could 
> the instructions say to open 'admin', check 'allow remote 
> administration' and then click change settings button'.Apparently a 
> password has to be then entered, but I don't use a password in eCs.
> Then instructions say to run lpinfo -v. There is no such command in 
> eCs so I am totally confused.
> Could someone advise what to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Duval
> --------------------------------------------------
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>
eCUPS "Howto":

http://svn dot netlabs dot org/ecups/wiki/HowTo

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Date:  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:47:12 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley dot id dot au>
Subject:  Re:  eCUPS

Hi Alan,

On 11/04/10 7:11 PM, Alan Duval wrote:
>> Has cupsd.exe been started? I think the .wpi adds it to startup - did
>> you reboot after installing? If not, you can load it manually by
>> double clicking the object.
> Had rebooted but cupsd.exe hadn't been added to startup. Double clicked
> it and was able to open http://localhost:631 in Firefox and as my HP
> Officejet Pro K5300 wasn't listed with the Officejet Pro's and all of
> them had the driver 'CUPS + Gutenprint" assigned, I chose the latest
> Officejet Pro and installed it's driver. I was able to print a test page
> but the color wheel has a lot of black in the centre. Print otherwise is
> good.
> My problem now: How do I get my word processor to use this driver?

You need to setup a printer using the ecups printer driver, and using 
the ecups port driver -this is convered in the howto at svn dot netlabs/ecups

>> Given that you're using a HP - you may also want to download my port
>> of hplip which iirc i added to http://svn dot netlabs dot org/ecups
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Paul
>>
> If I download hplip, where do I install it?
Unzip into the root of the driver where cups is already, then go to 
http://localhost:631 again - and rerun the 'add printer' part - most 
likely the specific printer model will be there.

There is also an OS/2 ecups-hp printer driver available - but some 
options to select resolution & print quality are currently missing from 
the driver - I still need to figure out why...

Cheers,

Paul
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