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From: "John Angelico" <talldadatkepl dot com dot au>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:21:18 +0900 (EST)
Subject: [os2genau] URGENT Melbourne Install Fest delayed

[Bluebottle] Hello everybody!
[Grams] Cheers, applause, whistles, great excitement

Sad news - I have just been on the phone with Mark Rogers of Orion
Solutions, our Install Fest guru and the Australian distributor of
eCS.

[Grams] Excitement dies away to ominous rumbles...
 
He reports that the overwhelmingly excellent efforts of Serenity
Systems and their technical team are still in progress but we don't
yet have a GA to install.

With sincere apologies from Orion Solutions AND Serenity Systems,
we have decided that it would be wiser to delay the Install Fest to
Tuesday night, our regular SIG meeting at 6:30pm.

Mark will install the latest Release Candidate of eCS on the SIG
machine and I am prepared to offer my ThinkPad as a guinea pig as
well.

Given the history of bias against OS/2, I agree with Mark and the
Serenity team that getting it RIGHT and making it media-proof is
more important than the loss of a few more days in the release
schedule.

Mark is anxiously awaiting masters, CDs and other material, and
testing latest release candidates even now.

So on Tuesday we will see the closest thing to the real eCS
available, hot off the Internet from Serenity Systems.

So this email (as originally intended) announces the topic for
Tuesday night as well. Therefore...

Oyez! Oyez! Hear ye! Hear ye!

Let it be known to all and sundry on this list that the Melbourne
PC User Group OS/2 SIG will meet on Tuesday next being the 26th day
of June in the Year of our Lord 2001, at 6:30pm.

All good citizens seeking to embrace the new era of OS/2 computing
are hereby invited to attend the main SIG Room of the Melbourne PC
User Group, 27 Wells St South Melbourne and observe our special
guest Mark Rogers installing eCS.

Those attending are cautioned to wear appropriate eye protection to
aviod damage from the blazing speed and rapid acceleration to be
exhibited!!

The organisers expect a very high level of interest and patrons
would be well advised to take their places early. 

Dinner will be available afterwards at the well-known pizza
establishment commonly referred to as Topelz.

Oyez! Oyez! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!



 

Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au
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.... Reports of OS/2's demise are -still- greatly exaggerated.

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:49:44 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DOSCALL error

I'd still suggest trying the Install with the cache's turned off and
the memory reduced to 64 MB or less .....  Trust me on this one -
the install procedures have always been a bit quirky.

BTW CD arrived OK. will return asap.

Cheers/2
Ed.

Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
> 
> Hi ed
> 
> the thing is that I am using a HD with WSeb already  installed on the C Drive and I
> am trying to install Warp 4.5 on the D Drive.... the WSeb partition boots OK!!
> Perhaps I should cwap the HD into one of the WS PC at Work and load the OS and
> then put the HD back in the New machine??
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:52:25 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> >The DOSCALL error, usually points to a driver error of
> >some sort.
> >
> >I have used Newcall under Warp 4 but not under CP1. I would
> >rather suspect the processor (AMD) rather than the DLL file.
> >
> >I have seen various postings suggesting the faster AMD processors
> >may not be 100% Intel compatible - in fact they try to do things
> >more efficiently, which is OK for some OSes but the likes of *nix,
> >Novell and OS/2 tend to be more fussy.
> >
> >Unfortunately you can't try the install simply with an Intel chip
> >as AMD use a different socket.
> >
> >What you could try, is to turn off all cache and reduce the amount
> >of memory to under (or equal to) 64 MB. This would only be until
> >you complete the Install process, then you could turn everything
> >back on.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Ed.
> >
> >
> >
> >Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
> >>
> >> I am attempting to install the  IBM Software Choice Convenience pack V4.5 on a
> new PC  -  6 G IDE drive with a 900Hz
> >> AMD CPU and 128Meg RAM, the install goes almost all the way through and
> indeed seems to get to the reboot and run
> >> point when it gives me an error on boot  (not a trap as such - although the
> outcome is the same....!!!) and it mentions a
> >> DOSCALL error..... plus the usual info that one indeed sees with trap error.
> 
> Graham Norton
> President
> OS2 Users Group SA
> 

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:56:29 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DOSCALL error

Hi Graham,
 Aha, Ignore my previous reply - you did "trust" me
re turning off cache etc. That Install procedure always
had some issues with timing .....

As for installing two cards in the system, it's pretty
straight forward but I need to know if you're running WSeB
or Warp Client on the box. Let me know and I point out
the differences.

I was considering saying, we'll take this off-list but I think
it may be interesting as more and more people are going to
Broadband connections.

As the advertising says - once you've used Broadband you
won't want to go back - and it's true !.

- As you're using ADSL, we'll probably need some input 
from Daryl as well as he runs ADSL (I run cable).

So once more - which type of Warp OS and yes which
telecom company ?

Cheers/2

Ed.

Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
> 
> Hi ed
> 
> now I am faced with installing the 2 NIC cards and trying to set up the MPTN for the
> separate PC that will act as the Internet 'gateway' and firewall...

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:15:46 +1100
From: Stan Pallis <spallisatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DOSCALL error

Ed,

What are the differences, I'm running wseb

Ed Durrant wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
>  Aha, Ignore my previous reply - you did "trust" me
> re turning off cache etc. That Install procedure always
> had some issues with timing .....
> 
> As for installing two cards in the system, it's pretty
> straight forward but I need to know if you're running WSeB
> or Warp Client on the box. Let me know and I point out
> the differences.
> 
> I was considering saying, we'll take this off-list but I think
> it may be interesting as more and more people are going to
> Broadband connections.
> 
> As the advertising says - once you've used Broadband you
> won't want to go back - and it's true !.
> 
> - As you're using ADSL, we'll probably need some input
> from Daryl as well as he runs ADSL (I run cable).
> 
> So once more - which type of Warp OS and yes which
> telecom company ?
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
> 
> Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
> >
> > Hi ed
> >
> > now I am faced with installing the 2 NIC cards and trying to set up the MPTN for the
> > separate PC that will act as the Internet 'gateway' and firewall...

5=============================================

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:54:15 
From: Voytek Eymont <voytekatsbt dot net dot au>
Subject: [os2genau] Poor mans' PDF driver

Darryl,

you've mentioned PMPDF:

what version do you use ?
what version of Ghostscript ?

most importantly, what size PDFs do you get...?

when I tried it, the PDFs it made were quite large (compared to what
Acrobat made)

but, that was a while back, with an older copy of Ghostscript, which, has
now been updated, so I believe.

if you convert say this mssg, how big is the PDF ?
what about a single page PMfax fax file, how big is the PDF ?


thanks,


Voytek Eymont
SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd
http://www.sbt dot net dot au/links/
phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118 

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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:58:25 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DOSCALL error

The basic difference is that WSeb (like Warp Server) supports up to 4
network
cards. I'm pretty sure that the Client OS can only support 2. That might
seem
not be be a problem with usage as a firewall, but if TCPBEUI support is
required
on either of the cards, that is seen as a third card.

Let's see what Graham is running and take it from there.

Ed.

Stan Pallis wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> 
> What are the differences, I'm running wseb
> 
> Ed Durrant wrote:
> >
> > Hi Graham,
> >  Aha, Ignore my previous reply - you did "trust" me
> > re turning off cache etc. That Install procedure always
> > had some issues with timing .....
> >
> > As for installing two cards in the system, it's pretty
> > straight forward but I need to know if you're running WSeB
> > or Warp Client on the box. Let me know and I point out
> > the differences.
> >
> > I was considering saying, we'll take this off-list but I think
> > it may be interesting as more and more people are going to
> > Broadband connections.
> >
> > As the advertising says - once you've used Broadband you
> > won't want to go back - and it's true !.
> >
> > - As you're using ADSL, we'll probably need some input
> > from Daryl as well as he runs ADSL (I run cable).
> >
> > So once more - which type of Warp OS and yes which
> > telecom company ?
> >
> > Cheers/2
> >
> > Ed.
> >
> > Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi ed
> > >
> > > now I am faced with installing the 2 NIC cards and trying to set up the MPTN for the
> > > separate PC that will act as the Internet 'gateway' and firewall...

7=============================================

From: "Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist" <gnatsmart-road dot com dot au>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:26:16 +1100 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [os2genau] DOSCALL error

Ed

I am running the Warp 4.5  (convenience pack) and  have installed TWO Acctron 
PCI 10/100 NIC cards.... 

the system detects both or at least knows that they are 'there'!!  

I have attempted to configure the MPTS  as follows

Accton Card
0 - TCPIP 
Accton Card
1 - NetBuis
1- TCPIP

with the intention of making the 1st example  the ADSL modem link....

the problem is that with BOTH cards in the PC , there is an error when I start the 
requester.... it eventually prompts me  saying that it was unable to start the service 
due to a 'cable error'!!  If I physically remove one NIC card, the requester service  
starts OK..  (mind you I dont  think I actually need the requester service on this PC?)

the Injoy Firewall will detect BOTH cards on install however and prompts me to 
nominate the NIC card to use.... lan0 is the one that I choose...

so there is a hiccup so far.... Daryl is aware of it and wondered if it was a problem 
with the actual NIC card and its NIF file???



On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:58:25 +1000, Ed Durrant wrote:

>The basic difference is that WSeb (like Warp Server) supports up to 4
>network
>cards. I'm pretty sure that the Client OS can only support 2. That might
>seem
>not be be a problem with usage as a firewall, but if TCPBEUI support is
>required
>on either of the cards, that is seen as a third card.
>
>Let's see what Graham is running and take it from there.
>
>Ed.
>
>Stan Pallis wrote:
>> 
>> Ed,
>> 
>> What are the differences, I'm running wseb
>> 
>> Ed Durrant wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Graham,
>> >  Aha, Ignore my previous reply - you did "trust" me
>> > re turning off cache etc. That Install procedure always
>> > had some issues with timing .....
>> >
>> > As for installing two cards in the system, it's pretty
>> > straight forward but I need to know if you're running WSeB
>> > or Warp Client on the box. Let me know and I point out
>> > the differences.
>> >
>> > I was considering saying, we'll take this off-list but I think
>> > it may be interesting as more and more people are going to
>> > Broadband connections.
>> >
>> > As the advertising says - once you've used Broadband you
>> > won't want to go back - and it's true !.
>> >
>> > - As you're using ADSL, we'll probably need some input
>> > from Daryl as well as he runs ADSL (I run cable).
>> >
>> > So once more - which type of Warp OS and yes which
>> > telecom company ?
>> >
>> > Cheers/2
>> >
>> > Ed.
>> >
>> > Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi ed
>> > >
>> > > now I am faced with installing the 2 NIC cards and trying to set up the MPTN 
for the
>> > > separate PC that will act as the Internet 'gateway' and firewall...

Graham Norton
President
OS2 Users Group SA
