[SOLVED][partly] Re: [ltp] thinkpad serial killer!

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On Saturday 25 December 2004 11:44, I wrote:
> lspnp: /proc/bus/pnp not available

dmesg, of my 2nd 2.6.9 attempt, reported:
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe700
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe724, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: dev_node_info: function not supported on this system
PnPBIOS: Unable to get node info.  Aborting.

Then I set about building a third 2.6.9 kernel. This one was based on 
the 2.6.8.1 config posted by Thomas Hood (for his 600X), with a few 
additions (mostly more modules.) Rebooted, and ... success!

Something in my Slackware 2.6.9 generic kernel (slackware-current, in 
the testing directory) perhaps didn't work with the Thinkpad's serial 
port. When I booted kernel #3, the first thing I tried was "setserial 
ttyS0", and for the first time, it identified the UART. I didn't have 
any other serial devices to try for testing, but the GPS worked.

:)

A little late, but a well-appreciated Christmas present nonetheless.

The problem with the thinkpadpm driver persists; no get_cpu_ptr nor 
put_cpu_ptr symbols. Strange that I have almost the same machine and 
only one kernel release off of what the author uses, but mine doesn't 
work. (I didn't find them in my copy of 2.6.8.1, either.) Are there 
Debian-specific kernel patches which have these symbols?

Anyway, as it stands I'm doing pretty well. In my DOS'ing I managed to 
get hibernation set up. I've got the functionality I need. Eventually I 
might want to play with IR and the mwave modem, but those are low 
priorities.

Topicality note: are thinkpad (driver) and tpctl issues on-topic enough 
for this list, or should I go over to the tpctl lists at Sourceforge?
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