USB floppies should still work, as they are a specific case USB mass storage device; that was the driver for conventional internal SuperIO connected floppy drivers
AFAIK since SMAP/SMEP implemented most if not all BeOS drivers will not work.
Well, yes and no. They are a very special case and the interfacing is quite different. The reason for that is that floppy drives are slow, and so, they need an asynchronous interface: you send a command to read a sector, and later the drive responds when the data is ready.
For other mass storage devices, instead, the response is āimmediateā (in the same USB transaction).
I wrote the driver for usb floppy drives, but since then, my two drives broke (due to trying to read old floppies) and I decided not to replace them because I donāt need floppies anymore. No one has stepped up to keep the driver working.
1 Like
It can be disabled in boot loader menu options.
SMAP/SMEP is only implemented on x86_64.
I thought that the 32 bit kernel is no longer built with gcc 2.95, meaning that binary BeOS drivers will no longer work?
I just bought a new portable USB floppy drive this week because I donāt know where my other one is. I still have a stash of floppy disks stored away. So I decided Iād better have the hardware to read them one day.
On that note it might be worth putting some extra effort into getting one really good wifi card working 100% bluetooth and eveything since they are swappable and for as long as the m.2 format for cards remains (looks like its sticking around to me) we could just say get an AX210 card etc its extra well tested etcā¦ then users can mostly worry about all the other components.
Worth noting also that Lenovo is very bad to whitelist wifi cards so you have limited optionsā¦ I havenāt hit that on other brands though. Basically the card never gets initialized at all by the UEFI if they didnāt test that cardā¦
Unfortunately the next generation card that fits that bill might not be an Intel one sinceā¦ Intel isnāt compatible with AMD on the BE200 generation.
Haiku doesnāt support bluetooth other than pairing devices currently. Thatās not a driver issue as such.
Not only SMAP/SMEP, there were also some changes to area protection flags and default protections which will surely create problems if you try using BeOS drivers in current versions of Haiku.
It was already on the way out anyways, for example filesystem drivers have been incompatible for a very long time. I think USB drivers are not really compatible either?
If you have the source of the driver, porting it to Haiku is not so hard. This is what happened for most of the relevant drivers, the remaining ones from BeOS are for hardware from machines from the late 1990s that wouldnāt run Haiku at any acceptable speed anyways.
3 Likes
Haiku Works great and makes me happy
Contrary to the TO i am very impressed by haiku, it runs quite good on most hardware i have tried it on.
Mostly that consists of thinkpads (x201s, x200t, x220, x301, x1 carbon, multiple mini pc, some servers at work)
I have bought a Apple iMac 27" mid 2010 for Haiku (i3 3,2GHz, 12 GB RAM), since it does only one screen i want it to be a big one 
Unfortunatly the speakers are not working, but the headphone jack is, so i can connect external speakers.
CDRom drive works, Cardreader works, Wifi works, but sometimes looses connection.
Screen works in native 2560x1440 resolution
Just Webcam Support is missing
10 Likes
@ubu Finally - a recent screenshot of my HiQDock running somewhere. 
FYI - you can āreplaceā the HVIF icons (e.g. in your screenshot of the Falkon and Webpositive launchers) with .svg so they will look nicer in the HiQDock)
(more information on the full steps to do this using the icon-o-matic application are here: HiQDock ... New Dock coming soon - #163 by hey68you
3 Likes
Thanks for the tip, iāve already wondered how to do this
That would be easy to add, as BeOS/Haiku already have this feature in principle, just not invoked over D&D but via rightclick-menu for navigation and copy/move menus thereinā¦
just something you might want to look intoā¦that discovered with a 2009 iMac running MX linuxā¦is there wasnt any fan support leading to the GPU over heading. I found a fix using mbpfan and psence to display temps and fan speeds to monitor it.
Im not sure if any of this applies if using Haiku-os but you may need to look into it.