[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Arnold Troeger]

Andrew Lee wrote:
> 
> Well, if you have a write-up somewhere of how you did it I'd be pleased
> to read it. My experience was a very bad one, having used Linux on my main
> desktop machines since about 1995 I was pretty annoyed to find that the
> Laptop setup had me beaten.
> 
> -AJL
> 

Andrew,
I don't have a write-up yet.  Time has been hard to set aside for it. 
First, do you still have some sort of dos partition on your machine? 
The first big problem I encountered was that Windows kept resetting the
resources for the sound card and the internal modem.  I found I had to
get both the ps2.exe utility and the IBM Thinkpad configuration utility
to agree on what resources got allocated to the sound card and the
modem.  With the ps2.exe utility, you also need to disable
"PCIBUSPower."  Once you have both utilities agreeing on which devices
are enabled and what resources they're using, then boot into Linux.  I
found it easier to get sound working first, so I'll describe that
first.  Take EVERY reference to sound out of your modules.conf file.  I
then added the following lines to the file: 

alias sound-slot-0 cs4232
options cs4232 irq=5 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0
options opl3 io=0x388.

The values will depend on how your machine is configured.  Once you have
this configured, see if you have any sound modules loaded.  If you do,
remove them (rmmod <whatever>).  Now try 'modprobe sound-slot-0' and
'tail -f /var/log/messages'.  You should see some indication that the
sound modules have loaded.  If not, what messages do you see?

Assuming you now have sound working, the next thing to do is to get the
modem working.  You'll need to track down the source code for the mwave
driver, but a google search should turn that up.  Configure and compile
the code for your kernel and run "make install" to get the module into
the correct location.  You can add the following to your modules.conf
file as well: "alias char-major-10-219 mwave".  The INSTALL file and the
./doc/mwave.txt file that come with the source code provided all the
rest of the information I needed to get the modem working.  

It took me more time than I like to think about to get this all working,
and, judging from the traffic on this mailing list, I wasn't the only
one.  I posted a lot of questions to the list and got back enough hints
to get me through it.  Hope I've helped here.

Good luck and best regards,
Arnold

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