[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Andrew Lee]

Many thanks for your reply. I think I will try again sometime. I didn't have
any dos on it at all
when I installed Mandrake, and I made up a bootable floppy with the ps2.exe
files on it, so that I could configure the IRQ's.
Do I take it from your info below that you didn't use the midi setup as you
don't mention IRQ9 in your
list of things in modules.conf.

The other problem that I had is that I have an older Network card (16 bit)
and it wanted it's own IRQ.
I did get the modem partially working once in that I got the driver loading,
but it just would bomb out as soon as I tried to dial.

Maybe I will have the courage to have another try at some point, but I need
it to work at the moment, so I think I will have to stay with Windoze.

regards

-AJL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnold Troeger" <stssart@bkk.unocal.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e


> 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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