[ltp] Serial/PCMCIA problems with TP600E

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On 17-Feb-01 Tom Grydeland wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 Till.Straumann@TU-Berlin.de wrote:
>=20
>> >>   - Enable pnp-bios in the "EASY-setup"
>> >=20
>> > And, I assume, enable pnp-support in the Linux kernel? :-)
>>=20
>> NO - this has nothing to do with old ISA pnp (isapnp and
>> pnpdump
>> tools are not necessary either) - pnp_bios support is entirely
>> implemented in pcmcia_core.o. Unfortunately, the same
>> "pcmcia_core" module must be un/reloaded, so the higher level
>> (pcmcia) stuff gets aware of any configuration changes.
>=20
> Ok, thanks!  That clarifies a lot.
>=20
> However, for now, the lspnp program in
> pcmcia-3.1.24/debug-tools
> complains that:
>=20
> lspnp: /proc/bus/pnp not available
>=20
> so I guess there's *something* I need to enable :-)
>=20

Sure - you have to enable pnp_bios support when=20
configuring the pcmcia package.

Well, I decided to risk a little WOB posting my
earlier message again...

---Till



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