October 2002 - Oberon - mailman3.inf.ethz.ch

Re: [Oberon] Support for Realtek RTL-8139 with Native Oberon
by frey＠inf.ethz.ch 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

> I'm running Native Oberon on a Pentium-II class machine. > How can a network card such as, Realtek RTL-8139 be > configured in Native Oberon ? PCITools.Scan was able to > detect this card as a PCI device. The driver is currently only available for the new Bluebottle OS. http://bluebottle.ethz.ch It should not be too difficult to make a Native Oberon driver out of the Bluebottle OS driver. But... I have no time to do this myself. --Thomas Frey

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Input.Time
by Gérard Meunier 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hello, I've done some time measurements of program runs on Bluebottle, and I'm not sure that Input.Time() works correctly. I don't know if this fact is important, but my program uses the gc a lot. I find a discrepancy of ten times, more or less, between my watch (~ 60 s) and Input.Time() (6 s). My config string contains the item 'MHz="600"', which is right. Any ideas ? Regards. Gérard

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Tabs in Script or TextDocs
by pat＠picoworks.com 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Has Script or TextDocs been extended anywhere to handle right, center or decimal tabs? "Compiler Construction" by Dr Wirth, produced on Oberon, shows right tabs in the table of contents but it may have been produced on V4. Thanks, Pat

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Support for Realtek RTL-8139 with Native Oberon
by 森正弘 30 Oct '02

30 Oct '02

Hello. I'm running Native Oberon on a Pentium-II class machine. How can a network card such as, Realtek RTL-8139 be configured in Native Oberon ? PCITools.Scan was able to detect this card as a PCI device. Thank you. M.Mori __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/

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Bluebottle Rage Pro Init String
by mcintosh＠vima.austin.tx.us 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

I have a Rage Pro 3D adapter on the machine that I am using for Bluebottle. This adapter works at 1600 x 1200 x "true color" with Windows NT 4.0. (60Hz) Under Bluebottle, it is now configured at 1280 x 1024 x 32. There appear to be 8Mb on board ram. I have worked with the Oberon Native install disk for bluebottle. Using the Configure.Tool, I can set Init environment strings for the lower resolutions from the ATI Mach 64 entries. However, when I try to set up the 1600 x 1200 x <anything> I appear to be in a block character graphics mode. Before I go do all the homework to find a correct init string, I thought that I would ask if anyone else has looked at this. -- Aubrey In Morris, Mn, where it is snowing at the moment.

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Bluebottle Rage Pro Init String
by mcintosh＠vima.austin.tx.us 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

I have a Rage Pro 3D adapter on the machine that I am using for Bluebottle. This adapter works at 1600 x 1200 x "true color" with Windows NT 4.0. (60Hz) Under Bluebottle, it is now configured at 1280 x 1024 x 32. There appear to be 8Mb on board ram. I have worked with the Oberon Native install disk for bluebottle. Using the Configure.Tool, I can set Init environment strings for the lower resolutions from the ATI Mach 64 entries. However, when I try to set up the 1600 x 1200 x <anything> I appear to be in a block character graphics mode. Before I go do all the homework to find a correct init string, I thought that I would ask if anyone else has looked at this. -- Aubrey In Morris, Mn, where it is snowing at the moment.

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Re: PAP and usernames with at
by eas-lab＠absamail.co.za 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

--- snip source code provided ---- jmdrake_98(a)yahoo.com (jmdrake) wrote:- > I've tested the solution. Let's say you have the userid "the@user", an > ISP of "my.isp" and a password of "easypassword". To set this you would > type in the command: > > NetSystem.SetUser ppp:the@user:easypassword@my.isp ~ > > Then if you select "the@user" and click "Encoder.Encode" you get: > > NetSystem.SetUser ppp:the%40user:easypassword@my.isp ~ > > Then clicking NetSystem.SetUser gives you: > .... Does this handle the case that your <loginName> is "big%dog" and your <loginPassword> is "abc%123@net" ? Have you evidence that such <loginName>, <loginPassword> are not possible/valid ? My observations are that increasingly <loginName> , <loginPassword> are allocated by the ISP. Perhaps randomly generated, especially when an ISP is associated with banking facilities. Since the 'token separators' for the ISP-login stage are apparently: white-space & CR/LF, and the problem is at the login stage, it is inappropriate to 'work around' "@" or any characters that only have special significance once you are under internet-protocol. I believe that all the IP-special-chars are valid chars for <loginName> and <loginPassword>. NetSystem.Mod -> (* mg 16.08.96 *) needs to be re-designed, not patched. -- Chris Glur. PS. Yes it's nice to be able to put all the parameters in a file and just push one button. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/ISP-Connectivity-2.html >pppd connect 'chat -v "" "your_init_string" "" ATDTisp_number CONNECT > "" ogin: your_username word: your_passwd' /dev/tty(0/1/2) speed modem linux (THE standard) uses (here) white spaces for its token separators.

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Re: [Oberon] Re: PAP and usernames with at
by Edgar Schwarz 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

Chris wrote: > Does this handle the case that your <loginName> is "big%dog" and > your <loginPassword> is "abc%123@net" ? > Have you evidence that such <loginName>, <loginPassword> are not > possible/valid ? In c.l.o at 12/10/02 I wrote (Perhaps you don't get all c.l.o posts) > PAP transmits it's user and password as a length byte followed by data. > There are no restrictions on the characters in username and password. So the examples given by you are valid. NO PPP also doesn't care with the exception of 0X which is used as string end marker. The problem is just with the preceding step of setting these parameters. So NetSystem.Setuser is perhaps not the best choice to use for PAP user/password purposes. Therefore I could create a PPPPAP.SetUser with the same syntax but allowing more characters e.g. by escaping problem chars with %. Or PPPPAP.SetUser pap:"big%dog":"abc%123@net"@ChrisISP ~ If you think that's ok I would do that. If not you can discuss this problem with the NetSystem maintainers (ETHZ I suppose) which would mean that I don't have to do anything. It's your choice because you are the only one with this problem at the moment. Cheers, Edgar

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IRQ for Com ports
by Derek Gardiner 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

If there is any documentation on changing the IRQ for a Com port I haven't found it, so can anyone help please. I tried looking at V24.mod but couldn't find an answer. I am using the latest Native Alpha release. Regards Derek Gardiner

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Re: [Oberon] IRQ for Com ports
by fischer＠inf.ethz.ch 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

> I am using the latest Native Alpha release. > > If there is any documentation on changing the IRQ for a Com port I haven't > found it, so can anyone help please. I tried looking at V24.mod but couldn't > find an answer. Access http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/ports.html and possibly http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/irqs.html If one is looking for something specific such as "irq", "com", ... use the local Google search on the home page http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/ Often overlooked :-) Tell us if you can get on with this much info. André Fischer

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