Julian Thomas wrote:

>In , on 07/09/05 
>   at 04:34 PM, "Flunkers"  typed:
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>>I'm thinking about getting a Thinkpad G-41. It comes with either a
>>Celeron or a Pentium  4 processor. Is there something that would prevent
>>me from installing eCS 1.2 on either  of these processors? I realize that
>>I might not be able to use all the features, such as  the internal
>>ethernet and modem, but that is no problem since I have cards for those.
>>I  suppose I should try to find out which card services this TP uses.
>>Anyway, any heads  up about this?
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>I'm not familiar with the G series; the T series are the ones that are
>still officially supported for OS2 (at least last I looked) and while the
>infernal modem is a bummer, you will probably have better luck with the
>ethernet and the sound.
>
>May I suggest the nb2discuss list at yahoogroups - someone there may have
>some knowledge of the G machines.
>
>There's also a general thinkpad list - info at
>http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
>
>there are a couple of people there who have good reputations for selling
>stuff including older machines still with some warranty.  Delivery might
>be troublesome if not in the US.
> 
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I ran eCS and OS/2 Warp 4 CP2 on a Thinkpad R31 for a couple of years. 
The internal modem and PCMCIA slots gave me problems though. The rest of 
the hardware was similar enough to the T21 or generic drivers to be able 
to be used with OS/2. If the R41 has gone to GB rather than fast 
(100Mb/s) ethernet, there's a good chance the chipset is broadcom rather 
than intel - you may have issues there as well.

If you have a choice, getting a T42 thinkpad working under eCS / OS2 
will be easier (that's what I now use) - again the internal win-modem 
will never work under os/2 and wireless is only possible using a PCMCIA 
Orinico (or other OS/2 supported) card - there's no drivers yet for the 
built-in wireless capability unfortunately.

Your other option is to run eCS 1.2 within SVista/Win on the Installed 
Windows XP partition . Run it in fullscreen and forget that you're 
actually running Windows XP as well.

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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