That the danis506.add IDE driver is not working on some old systems. It
has received maintenance to fix some bugs that have been reported and
that broke some stuff it seems. If you have not done so yet, please
report a bug in the bug tracker. Also check the eComStation bugtracker
if the defect you have is already open. Thats saves us some time!

In broad lines the following issue’s have been found and are being
worked on.

* On some older systems the DANIS506.ADD driver does not see the CD ROM
and/or HDD. Regression in the code needs to befixed.

* Some systems the OS2AHCI driver does not show the hard disc or you
get an LVM error. Both items are under research and if the people that
reported the problem can follow the instructions we will be posting in
the bugs over the next couple of days we should be able to fix these
issue.

* On some systems the USB driver don’t work. eCS 2.2 ship with new USB
host controller drivers and new mouse and keyboard drivers. Again over
the next couple of days we will we will post information that we hope will follow to we can debug these
issue’s. Again remote stuff remotely is not easy but we will make it as
easy as possible.
One benefit compared to the IBM USB driver is that the new USB drivers
contain tracing facilities
Its of no use to release a new beta RIGHT now. But the problem with
Genmac not installing correctly with the beta has been resolved and the
fix in CVS. Also the some problems in the NAPS GUI (MPTS replacement)
and the CUPS wizard are partly/are being worked on. So your bug reports
are useful! But some bugs take more time to fix then others.

The problem with OS2AHCI and LVM not working is already being looked in. So please stay tuned to your mailbox for feedback from our techteam. And as always when possible provide \var\log\instlog.zip. That is a treasure room for us with information.

Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.

Yesterday we send out a message that we found out 2 older USB drivers
in the beta version of eCS 2.2 where being installed to hard disc. That
issue was fixed.
However this morning we found out the new ISO file had not been put
online yet (it was on the server but the wrong directory).
You can check if your ISO is effected. The old ISO is from yesterday
created at around 02:00 PM. The correct was has the following file in
the eCS directory with this timestamp:

\ECS\ecs_inst.flg
eComStation 2.2_beta EN_US Mon Mar 25 10:21:02 pm 2013

Regards,

Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.

Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the eComStation 2.2 beta Release. This beta release is available in English only.

This product is available for download to all registered users of Software Subscription Services for eComStation.

== eComStation 2.2 beta ==

This is a beta version of eComStation 2.2, provided to interested
customers for the purpose of testing and evaluation.

eComStation 2.2 includes many new features. While our in-house
testing indicates that they are fully functional and reliable, we
would appreciate as many reports from our beta testers as possible
in order to complete our evaluation prior to final product release.

Consequently, we would request that, when using the eComStation 2.2
Beta, you pay particular attention to testing and evaluating the
following new or improved features:

* New: CUPS printer support. Support for a large variety of printers
is installed by default.
* New: File Open Container.
* New: split view for desktop folders.
* New: Adapters and Protocols configuration program.
* New: PNG Desktop. (large icons)
* ACPI power management, especially in combination with multiple
processors. The ACPI support in eComStation 2.2 has been
significantly overhauled relative to earlier versions.
* Video driver performance with Panorama. Panorama has received
considerable improvement since eComStation 2.1; in particular,
widescreen displays should now be much better-supported.
* WiFi support has been updated with new versions of the XWLAN
widget and the WPA supplicant program.
* A Java-based RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) client has been added
to facilitate remote connections to Windows workstations and
servers.

Please refer to http://class='extlink'http://www.ecomstation.com/support/ecs22beta for more
information on this beta and guidelines to submit your reports.

== DISTRIBUTION / CREATING INSTALLATION MEDIA ==

This product is provided as a downloadable ISO file, this is a raw DVD
image that you can burn on DVD-R media. For instructions on burning
the ISO image to DVD please consult the PDF document "howtoburncds.pdf"
available in the same directory as the ISO files.

== REGISTRATION KEY REQUIRED FOR INSTALLING ==

eComStation 2.2 Beta requires a valid eComStation 2.0 or 2.1
registration key for installing. You should have received this
registration key as part of your previous eComStation 2.x purchase.
You can download it (by logging in at http://class='extlink'http://www.ecomstation.com) in
digital form, ready to be imported during the installation process.

== SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES ==

This product is available for download to all registered users of
Software Subscription Services for eComStation. If you subscription has
expired, you can purchase a renewal which will grant you immediate
access to the download.

More details can be found at http://class='extlink'http://www.ecomstation.com/subscription/

== ENJOY ==

We hope you will enjoy testing this beta version of eComStation 2.2.

Best regards,

Serenity Systems International / Mensys B.V.

A few dozen people downloaded the eCS 2.2 beta English DVD ISO from the
Mensys server. We had to withdraw the ISO at 22:30 Amsterdam time.
Booting from DVD the ISO works without any error. However on boot from
hard disc the wrong 2 USB drivers are installed.
The files USBOHCD.SYS and USBEHCD.SYS where not updated 1 pack file.
This could result in problems with USB devices and slow boots.
At 23:15 we released a new ISO with the proper version of the drivers
in place.
If your ISO is effected by this please check the file:

\ECS\ecs_inst.flg on the DVD it mentions:

eComStation 2.2_beta EN_US Mon Mar 25 02:19:05 pm 2013

In the new released eCS 2.2 beta the file has this information it:

eComStation 2.2_beta EN_US Mon Mar 25 10:21:02 pm 2013

If you have the effected ISO you can also boot from the DVD and open a
command prompt and from the ramdrive (normaly drive Z:) copy usb*.sys
to bootdrive:\os2\boot. That way your boot on hard disc will be up to
date with the proper drivers.

Boot from the DVD is not affected!

Sorry for the inconvience

Best regards,

Roderick Klein
Mensys B.V.

We ported the current version of the Vim editor to eCS. And therefor it’s a little bit more pretty, we have given it a nice QT gui.

You can download and buy it via the following link:

http://www.aventer.biz/90-1-eCS.html

If you have any kind of trouble with this software, then please donâ€Öt hesitate and open a ticket via:

http://www.aventer.biz/6-0-SERVICES.html

Kind regards,

your avEnter team

Links:

• http://www.aventer.biz/90-0-eCS.html
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All users of eComStation 2.1 can activate File Open Container

(Homepage of FOC: http://ecomstation.ru/foc):

Execute command: focdlg /I

It’s important check that all your apps are compatible with FOC.

For users: FOC is optimized, accelerated and debugged.

If you have troubles with new FOC (hangs, ..) then search the cause

in drivers (Ethernet drivers / filesystem drivers)

For developers:

use standard file open dialog calls.

don’t modify the dialog (don’t move elements / don’t hide),

simplify your code.

New File Open Container

http://ecomstation.ru/pic/news/201210/FOC-20100929b.png

Old File Open Dialog

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New version is available from eCo Market.

Use PCI Dock to view computer configuration after eCS installation.

Start the utility to resolve the conflicts of controllers

(If you have installed new adapters / attached more SATA devices / USB devices)

Homepage of PCI Dock: http://ecomstation.ru/pcidock

PIC: http://ecomstation.ru/projects/pcidock/pics/pcidock-20130301.png

btw, (not related to PCI Dock),

Please share your experience, what system information do users need today?

For example,

* Dive/OpenGL presence

* Detailed information about laptop battery

* Applications which were started on system startup

Paul Smedley has updated MySQL to v5.1.67.
http://class='extlink'http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php

"MySQL 5.1 Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world’s most popular open source database"

Download: http://class='extlink'https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76425158/mysql-5.1.68-os2-20130301.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Paul Smedley has added WPA Supplicant v1.1 build.
http://class='extlink'http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php

"wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN)." This is required for connecting to a wifi router using WPA or WPA2 security. You need a working wireless card driver.

Download: http://class='extlink'https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76425158/wpa_supplicant-1.1-os2-20130112.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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Paul Smedley has updated Apache/2 to v2.2.24.
http://class='extlink'http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php

"The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT."

Download: http://class='extlink'https://dl.dropbox.com/u/76425158/httpd-2.2.24-os2-20130301.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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