[Discussion] eCS 2.0 GA install Quirks

[Douglas Clark]

Don,

I have experienced problems with KVM and certain types of motherboards, and even between certain types of 
keyboards (IBM) and motherboards (Intel).  I don't think either of those would affect the network working or not 
working, but it might be the cause of your keyboard/mouse stopping working at certain points.

The easiest way to determine this is to run the machine without the KVM until you get it stable. Then hook it back up 
to the KVM. 

Doug Clark



On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:22:57 -0600 D Burch wrote:
>
>I found an old IBM Thinkcenter mainboard, put 2GB ram and P4 3.0 gHz 
>CPU, ASUD AH3450 AGP 8X video.
>
>It runs through a IoGear DVI KVM to my monitor Sharp Aquos 32"TV), 
>Logitech wireless USB mouse and keyboard.
>
>It took a couple of tries to get the install to complete. This mainboard 
>is ACPI compliant, but 2.0 did not install by default. Although the 
>mouse and keyboard were active during the install,  once the WPS loaded, 
>no mouse or keyboard. Just a croak from the sound card and nothing.
>So I reinstalled, formatted the partition and turned on ACPI.
>I also found it strange that SNAP was not the default video. Snap 
>identified my Sharp HDMI TV and gives more resolution options.
>Otherwise I let eCS take care of the rest of the install.
>
>Now I am to the point where this system appears to be usable but:
>No network connectivity. Everything installed, DHCP monitor confirms a 
>BOUND state on lan0, but no action. I can see the ECS machine through 
>the router utility on my Mac. Now if I try to release the lease 
>everything locks up. If I try to look at the firewall utility everything 
>locks up or at least the mouse and keyboard are dead.
>I just got telephone TV, so I have a telco router then a D-Link router 
>that has a coax outlet and my network outlets. This did not affect my 
>Mac, so I do not think it should affect OS/2 - should it?  
>
>I can disable APM but not ACPI in the mainboard -  that I can see in the 
>bios.
>
>Any thoughts out there on where I can go with this?
>
>I am going to step back and install Warp 4.52 just to see how much of of 
>this grief is due to eCS overheads and enhancements. One thing I always 
>liked about OS/2 was the ability to take the drive almost anywhere and 
>have it run.
>
>Thanks
>
>Don
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Thanks

Douglas Clark