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Sunday 24 January 2010
 Number  1914
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD : Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
2   OT: Those on Telstra Bigpond - beware spoof e-mail : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
3   Help with NIC drivers : <andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com>
4  Re:  Help with NIC drivers : Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
5  Re:  Help with NIC drivers : Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
6  Re:  Help with NIC drivers : Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
7  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD : Ian Manners" <deadmail>
8  Re:  OT: Those on Telstra Bigpond - beware spoof e-mail : Ian Manners" <deadmail>
9  Re:  ThinkPad R40 2722-9BM Recovery CD : Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:38:29 -0700
From:  Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
Subject:  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD

Have you tried calling the support center?

Ian Manners wrote:
> IBM cant seem to find the FRU's for the recovery CD.
> Which I was happy to buy if the webstore could find.
> 01R8517 which replaces 01R7190 and 01R7010
> 
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
> http://www.os2site dot com/
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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:17:23 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:   OT: Those on Telstra Bigpond - beware spoof e-mail

Just got an e-mail with the subject:  "Update Your Bigpond Account To 
Avoid Closure" 

It asks for your account ID,  password and date of birth, to be sent via 
email to bigpondupdate at live dot com (this is pretty amateur, I would have 
thought they would have hidden that e-mail address behind a bigpond one).

In any case - this is an obvious scam e-mail that somehow the culprits 
have managed to send out to a group of bigpond e-mail account holders, 
so if you use bigpond - please DO NOT send your data back !

Now if anyone has the ability to flood that "bigpondupdate at live dot com" 
e-mail address with rubbish - go for it!

-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 8:53:25 +1030
From:  <andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com>
Subject:   Help with NIC drivers

With the gradual migration due to upgrade I've managed to inherit the old office machine as my personal desktop.  It has a Gigabyte GA-945GM-S2 motherboard which I have managed to get everything working except the NIC.  It is listed as having a Realtek RTL8111B chip.  Anyone have any hints as all my research seems to indicate that I am going to have to drop a PCI card with compatible chip into it.
If I am going to have to go this route is there any wireless cards around that have OS/2 drivers as it would be nice to be able to tap into the wireless setup we have here.

TIA

Andrew Hood

PS:  I just love the way I have been able to upgrade three times so far just by slotting the harddrive into a new chassis, adjust the config.sys and drivers to suit, and away it goes.  Same install I did just over seven years ago tweaked a few times.  I might need to give the .ini files a cleanup soon though.
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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:00:30 +1100
From:  Peter Moylan <peter at pmoylan dot org>
Subject:  Re:  Help with NIC drivers

On 24/01/10 09:23, andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com wrote:

>  If I am going to have to go this route is there any wireless
> cards around that have OS/2 drivers as it would be nice to be able to
> tap into the wireless setup we have here.

For wireless I use something called a "Wireless Access Point". It's not
the cheapest approach, but it has the advantage that it plugs into an
ethernet port, i.e. you only need driver software for your ethernet
interface, not any wireless driver, so in effect it's independent of
operating system.

I've tried two: a DWL-G730AP and an ASUS WL-330gE. They both worked
well. I preferred the DWL device because it was powered via USB, whereas
the ASUS one remains powered up even when the computer is turned off.
(To turn it off, I would have to crawl about under my desk.)
Unfortunately the DWL suddenly failed several months ago, possibly
because of a storm, so I'm left with only the one.

I bought both of these on-line, by searching for a good price.

-- 
Peter Moylan                          peter at pmoylan dot org
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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:10:04 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
Subject:  Re:  Help with NIC drivers

Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 24/01/10 09:23, andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com wrote:
>
>   
>>  If I am going to have to go this route is there any wireless
>> cards around that have OS/2 drivers as it would be nice to be able to
>> tap into the wireless setup we have here.
>>     
>
> For wireless I use something called a "Wireless Access Point". It's not
> the cheapest approach, but it has the advantage that it plugs into an
> ethernet port, i.e. you only need driver software for your ethernet
> interface, not any wireless driver, so in effect it's independent of
> operating system.
>
> I've tried two: a DWL-G730AP and an ASUS WL-330gE. They both worked
> well. I preferred the DWL device because it was powered via USB, whereas
> the ASUS one remains powered up even when the computer is turned off.
> (To turn it off, I would have to crawl about under my desk.)
> Unfortunately the DWL suddenly failed several months ago, possibly
> because of a storm, so I'm left with only the one.
>
> I bought both of these on-line, by searching for a good price.
>
>   
And as for the wired connection - you'll need to get the PCID of that 
Realtek onboard NIC - it "may" be supported by the RTL8139 driver 
RTSND.OS2 or by Genmac (most likely in "unsupported mode"). - checkout 
GenMU at ftp.os2voice dot org from Doug Bisset.

If you have a free PCI slot however , I'd get an Intel Pro/1000  MT 
desktop adapter - it works with the IBM "ethernet drive for gigabit". I 
got a couple on ebay lately (one single port, one dual port).

Here's a single port one:

http://cgi.ebay dot com dot au/INTEL-8390MT-PRO-1000-MT-Gigabit-PCI-NETWORK-CARD-NEW_W0QQitemZ260472781304QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca56339f8
at less than $15 (AUS)

  - there are several more - note you need the MT model not the GT one 
however if you get a GT model, it appears that GenMU may support that 
(dependant upon exact model), easier to go with the MT and it's native 
driver support.


As for WiFi, there are some PCI card based WiFi cards supported by 
GenMAC - you'll need to check models supported in the Genmac package:

These were the ones supported in v 2.0 - for later releases of the 
package you have to install the package on your PC with the card 
installed and the wpi will tell you if you have a supported card:

3Com 3C90xC   PCI [10B7:9200]
3Com/SKNet Gigabit [10B7:1700]
3Com/SKNet Gigabit [1148:4320]
3Com/SKNet Gigabit [11AB:4320]
3Com/SKNet Gigabit [11AB:4362]
ASUS Wlan RT2400 [1814:0101]
Atheros Wlan [168C:0012]
Atheros Wlan [168C:0013]
Atheros Wlan [168C:1014]
Broadcom 10/100 [14E4:170C]
Broadcom 10/100 [14E4:4400]
Broadcom 10/100 [14E4:4401]
Broadcom A/B/G [14E4:4324]
Broadcom B/G [14E4:4318]
Broadcom B/G [14E4:4320]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:165D]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:1677]
Broadcom Gigabit [14E4:167D]
CISCO mPCI [14B9:A504]
Dlink DWL-520+ [104C:8400]
Dlink DWL-G520+ [104C:9066]
GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0301]
GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0302]
GN-WI01GS RT61 [1814:0401]
Intel 10/100 [8086:1229]
Intel 10/100/1000 [8086:101E]
Intel 10/100/1000 [8086:1076]
Intel 10/100/1000 [8086:109A]
Intel 2100 Wlan [8086:1043]
Intel 2200 Wlan [8086:4220]
Intel 2915 a/b/g [8086:4223]
Intel 2915 a/b/g [8086:4224]
Intel 3945 a/b/g [8086:4222]
Marvel 802.11 b/g [11AB:1FA6]
Marvel 802.11 b/g [11AB:1FA7]
Rtl 8168 GigaBit [10EC:8168]
Rtl 8169 GigaBit [10EC:8169]
Rtl 8180 Wlan [10EC:8180]
nForce 2 10/100 [10DE:0066]
nForce 3 10/100 [10DE:00D6]
nForce 4 10/100/1000 [10DE:0057]


-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:22:16 -0700
From:  Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
Subject:  Re:  Help with NIC drivers

The access point/bridge device works well for desktops that you want to 
access a wireless network with.  I have experience with 3, 2 from SMC 
and 1 from Netgear.  The older SMC requires a firmware re-load to switch 
from access point mode to bridge mode, the newer ones have enough memory 
for firmware to allow switching modes without a re-load.

I use one SMC running as a bridge from my wife's old Netfinity machine 
to the other SMC running as an access point on my router.

You should be able to find used bridges.

Another option is a Linksys WRT54G (or other wireless router that is 
supported by DD-WRT) with DD-WRT running in repeater mode.  I picked up 
one of these on eBay the other day for $22 US (including shipping). 
Wired my T61 to it, connected the Linksys to my SMC wireless access 
point and was into the net.

Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 24/01/10 09:23, andrew.hood2 at bigpond dot com wrote:
> 
>>  If I am going to have to go this route is there any wireless
>> cards around that have OS/2 drivers as it would be nice to be able to
>> tap into the wireless setup we have here.
> 
> For wireless I use something called a "Wireless Access Point". It's not
> the cheapest approach, but it has the advantage that it plugs into an
> ethernet port, i.e. you only need driver software for your ethernet
> interface, not any wireless driver, so in effect it's independent of
> operating system.
> 
> I've tried two: a DWL-G730AP and an ASUS WL-330gE. They both worked
> well. I preferred the DWL device because it was powered via USB, whereas
> the ASUS one remains powered up even when the computer is turned off.
> (To turn it off, I would have to crawl about under my desk.)
> Unfortunately the DWL suddenly failed several months ago, possibly
> because of a storm, so I'm left with only the one.
> 
> I bought both of these on-line, by searching for a good price.
> 


-- 
Chuck McKinnis
Sandia Park, NM
http://www.7cities dot net/~mckinnis/
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23


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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:40:26 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  ThinkPad R40  2722-9BM Recovery CD

Hi Chuck,

>Have you tried calling the support center?

Not yet, thats my last resort as last time I rang IBM Support
to get a recovery disk they wanted to log a customer paid
support call as the machine in question wasnt under warranty,
then put me onto a 'specialist'.

I miss the old days when I knew a lot of people in IBM service.

If I figure I need this one bad enough then I'll call them :-)

Cheers
Ian Manners
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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:51:51 +1100 (EDT)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  OT: Those on Telstra Bigpond - beware spoof e-mail

Hi Ed,

>Just got an e-mail with the subject:  "Update Your Bigpond Account To 
>Avoid Closure" 

Even get them here in the filter folder, they send them out to everyone 
:-)

>email to bigpondupdate at live dot com (this is pretty amateur, I would have 

parts of hotmail/live have been RBL'ed now by spamcop and a few
other services that normally whitelist Microsoft free email. I think
everyone is getting a bit sick of the amount of spam that comes
there that service, not to mention how hard it is to report spam
to hotmail and watch as it takes up to 2 weeks to have the
spammers account disabled.

Microsoft meanwhile are proud to tell the world they have fixed
the spam problem, which to me means they have fixed the spam
problem for there users email inboxes :-)

It isnt a good idea to flood bigpondupdate at live dot com unless
you are sure, and you know how to use a SMTP proxy and
use a bogus email address. Yes, the email address given
looks like it is a phishing type one but some checks should
still be done first.

I've been a victim of a spammers revenge, with one of my email
address's being used in a similiar email. Thats why some of my
domains are nolonger used for email. Even though it was fake,
Hotmail and a few others put those domains of mine on somesort
of internal email blacklist. To stupid to only go by IP address.

Those domains of mine were never on SORBS, Spamhaus and other
more mainstream RBL's.

Cheers
Ian Manners
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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:32:43 +0800
From:  Nicholas Lysaght <nicholasrf at gmail dot com>
Subject:  Re:  ThinkPad R40 2722-9BM Recovery CD

Hi Ian.

2010/1/23 Ian Manners <deadmail>:
> Hi all,
>
> Probably a big ask but I'll try anyway.
>
> Anyone here have a Thinkpad R40 ?

Yes. 2272-EM1

> If so, do you have the original partition that you could make a recovery
> CD from,

Not sure. Will have to look. Don't think so.

 or do you have "a" recovery CD for the above model ?

Yes. Let me find it. It's somewhere (disorganised, as usual)

But I also have kept all the IBM Drivers for this model, separately,
so's a "normal" (sic) XP Install Disk can be used.

I'll start looking now. :-)

NICK

P.S. Hope this make it as plain txt rather than an attachment. :-)


>
> WindowsXP Pro.
>
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
> http://www.os2site dot com/
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