[ltp] tpctl & thinkpad 3.0pre1

[Thomas Hood]

tpctl can enable and disable the ir port and control its
resource settings.

It is better to use setpnp to control the settings, however,
since changes made using setpnp are nonvolatile.  You can use
tpctl to check that the hardware has been configured as you
have told the BIOS to configure it (using setpnp).

The surest way to configurate thing, of course, is using 
IBM's PS2.EXE.  But to run that you have to boot DOS or 
Wimpdows.

Thomas

 --- Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> wrote: > Thomas Hood wrote:

> Dumb question and quite likely OT, but tpctl is the closest I can find.
> 
> I was wondering... In the IR-HOWTO there is mention that you have to 
> (possibly) go into Windows to set your IRDA port 'ON' and then run 
> thereafter in Linux.
> I am wondering if that is still a valid statement for the IBM A21m types 
> of notebook PC's?
> Also, is tpctl have anything to do with this?
> And...  is there some (any) other way to see if my irda is working 
> correctly?  I've tried to set it up but I get some odd errors that I 
> haven't seriously looked into yet.
> But I've heard off/on about tpctl and that it can do some pretty kewl 
> stuff.  I wasn't sure if this (IR) was part of it or not.
> 
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