The pain this has caused me..........
The HP3100 is a fine portable - 266 Mhz PII processor, good TFT screen, I have 64 Meg of RAM and 4.3 Gb hard disk. Came from our IT shop with NT installed (of course). Me being me didn't want just NT on it. I recognise that I need NT for some things, but I wanted OS/2 v4 on it with Boot Manager.
Okey dokey. Whip out the copy of Partition Magic and shrink down the NT partition to 2000 Mbytes. Then get out the OS/2 v 4 install disks and, proving that you don't always need the IDEDASD fixes for larger hard disks (but without understanding why), I booted OK, created a Boot Manager partiton at the end of the hard disk and then created a logical partition as drive D: for OS/2 of 1000 Mbytes. Then I created another logical drive E: of 752 Mbytes for sharing of data between NT and OS/2.
All installed just fine as I decided to not install Multimedia and just install the VGA driver. APM works fine - tells me the battery status, even suspends everything correctly.
Onto the HP web site for technical details of the hardware - sound driver of Crystal Audio CS4235 - excellent drivers available from ftp://cirrus.com/pub/drivers/audio - try os2207wt.zip or os2207fm.zip. No problems there - all installed fine, all worked fine. The first time I've really ever had a good clean install of the Multimedia setup in OS/2. Quite fun really.
Next was the display drivers. The chipset is Neomagic MagicGraph 128 XD - drivers available from the Thinkpad support site (ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles - use vftpxos2.exe) as they are in use in one of the IBM Thinkpads. I've had small problems with these - clipping of text and strange font problems. I believe that the GRADD device drivers may well work so I'll try them when I'm feeling bold enough.
The real problem was that of the PCMCIA chipset - TI1220. The IBM Website for OS/2 device drivers claims that they have a solution for this chipset for other PCs, but I (along with many other individuals if you search DejaNews) have had huge grief getting this to work. I have tried so many different device drivers for other PCs, flailed around with RESERVE.SYS, mucked about with parameters on COM.SYS, tried SIO.SYS, changed the order of device drivers and generally rebooted the PC to death.
After many plaintive wails for help in comp.os2.setup.misc, I had a reply from someone who I guess may have been working on the Touchstone drivers (more on them in a minute) and he was kind enough to send me a beta of a driver called SS2INTEL.SYS. I installed the PLAYWILL.EXE programs to give me Card Director, REMmed out the BASEDEV=IBM2SS14.SYS and inserted the BASEDEV=SS2INTEL.SYS and the PC rebooted and assigned an interrupt to PCMCIA and gave me access to my modem. You cannot imagine how happy I was when I saw this working (if you're still struggling, maybe you can). No RESERVE.SYS, no mucking about with the PCMCIA .CRD files, no CONFIG.SYS oddities.
The relevant section of my CONFIG.SYS is below.
BASEDEV=PCMCIA.SYS
REM BASEDEV=IBM2SS14.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2SS04.SYS
BASEDEV=SS2INTEL.SYS
BASEDEV=AUTODRV2.SYS
DEVICE=D:\THINKPAD\VPCMCIA.SYS
The device driver I was sent was sent to me with the request that I keep it to myself as the author was going to try to do something with it - maybe it's the Touchstone driver, maybe it isn't. I haven't seen them. All I know is that they work for me.
The only problem I have with it is that it will not recognise my Madge Token Ring card at boot up - only if I insert it after boot. I managed to get an IBM PCMCIA Token Ring card and that's fine so for the moment, I have the IBM card for OS/2 and the Madge for NT.
Email me if you want some more information.
Beta 0.3
Date 23/09/1999