[ltp] Re: more /dev/thinkpad

[David Tansey]

Tom,

If I remember correctly, I tar -xzf'd the thinkpad-source.tgz and then
in the end did a "sudo make install" and then sudo modprobe thinkpad
worked for me.



On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 07:47 -0500, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:31 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> > > I've also compiled the modules under thinkpad-source and have tpctl working.
> > >
> > > I have compiled configure-thinkpad and now it's giving me the no
> > > /dev/thinkpad exists.
> > >
> > > It seems as though it wants a default location.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on where to put the module - e.g., /lib/modules/?
> > 
> > 
> > Add "thinkpad" to /etc/modules.
> > 
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. 
> 
> I have added that. It doesn't see the module. I looking for an
> alternative to changing the path environment for a single module. I
> tried a ln -s but Ubuntu didn't like that. 
> 
> I found a unresolved bug report on this issue. Several debian users want
> to get this resolved but it doesn't appear as a priority. 
> 
> Also, an issue exists with permissions which I see as fixable
> in /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
> 
> I'm just not as familiar with debian as RPM distributions. 
> 
> In Fedora, the sources set up a directory in /lib/modules called
> thinkpad. I may have to reinstall that to see what it did. 
> 
> Any further thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tom