Monthly Archives: October 2017

Now accepting more cryptocurrencies

A recent change in the Stripe API, accompanied by a shift in Stripe’s handling of Bitcoin has prompted us to switch to CoinPayments.net directly for handling cryptocurrency. Payments processed through the CoinPayments.net gateway will still ultimately be processed by our CoinBase account, but will no longer be initialized via Stripe.

On the checkout page, CoinPayments.net is now listed as an additional gateway. Selecting that and clicking Place Order will transfer you to a page hosted by CoinPayments.net, where you may select Bitcoin or another one of a number of different cryptocurrencies.

Please note that as a result of this change, the Bitcoin Payment Policy has been superseded by the new Cryptocurrency Payment Policy (though the former will remain available for historical purposes).

New MultiMac NIC driver package (20171019) released

Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new release of our MultiMac NIC driver package.

This is a maintenance release of the MultiMac drivers. It contains some minor updates including:

All drivers: A fix to properly detect MSI capability in some rare cases.
E1000B: Received some very minor updates from the FreeBSD source.
MMIGB: Received some very minor updates from the FreeBSD source.

As always, please read the .txt file that comes with each driver and also provided on the wiki. If you have problems with any of the drivers in this release, please read the Debugging Guide in the wiki first. If your problem cannot be resolved with the Debugging Guide, then the problem should be reported to the ticketing system.

More information about the MultiMac NIC drivers may be found in the wiki.

If you have ArcaOS, this driver package is available for download from the Arca Noae website as part of the Support & Maintenance subscription for your ArcaOS product. Please log into your account and see your ArcaOS order details page to access your software.

If you have an Arca Noae OS/2 & eCS Drivers and Software Subscription, this driver package is available for download from the Arca Noae website as part of your Arca Noae OS/2 & eCS Drivers and Software Subscription. Please log into your account in order to access your software.

If you are still running OS/2 and/or eComStation systems and haven’t yet purchased a software subscription, this is a great reason to do so now. It may also be a good time to consider moving up to ArcaOS.

USB driver package version 11.17 released

USB Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of release 11.17 of our USB stack.

This is a maintenance release and includes minor fixes and enhancements. Specifically, this version fixes keyboard auto-repeat so that it works for all USB keyboards. This version also fixes the ability to use certain unusual types of USB 1.x devices when plugged into a USB 2.0 hub.

More information about the USB drivers can be found in the wiki.

If you have problems with any of the drivers in this release, please read the Troubleshooting Guide in the wiki first. If your problem cannot be resolved with the Troubleshooting Guide, then the problem should be reported in the ticketing system.

October 2017 happenings

ArcaOS 5.0.2 in the works

We are hard at work finalizing the last bits to be included in ArcaOS 5.0.2. Among the enhancements and features are a few bug fixes, updates to included RPM packages, updated Samba client, and the new ability to install from an ArcaOS bootable USB stick (or local partition). We call this new feature AltBoot, and it is a milestone for OS/2. This should assist those with USB 2.0 capability but no optical drives in getting ArcaOS installed and running.

Arca Noae experimental YUM repository access now restricted

In an effort to better ensure the integrity of packages provided by Arca Noae in our release and subscription channels, we have now restricted access to the arcanoae-exp repository to developers and the test team only.

Rest assured, any software which you may have installed from the experimental repository will continue to function just as it did before. However, we strongly urge that if you have installed the arcanoae-exp RPM to configure the experimental repository in Arca Noae Package Manager (ANPM) or YUM, you uninstall that package. It will be withdrawn from the Netlabs stable repository shortly.

Firefox 45.9 RPM coming soon to an Arca Noae YUM repository near you

Firefox 45.9 GA should be arriving soon for installation via ANPM as part of the subscription content for ArcaOS licensees with active support and maintenance and Drivers & Software subscribers. This new packaging should ease the burden of upgrades by managing dependencies and better ensuring a successful installation. More details will be provided in an upcoming post. (Of course Firefox is free for all to download as zip from Netlabs. There is no requirement to maintain a subscription with Arca Noae in order to get the latest Firefox for OS/2.)