[ltp] TP600+Debian problems

[Claudio Leite]

Hello all,

 I'm no newbie to Linux but I am a newbie to laptops- I just got this
TP600 (PII 300, 64mb) less than two weeks ago. My PCMCIA Ethernet has
been working for a week now w/o problems, but as far as sound and the ACP
modem go, it's been no luck.
 At first, the MWAVE module wouldn't even find the hardware, but that was
solved once I upgraded my BIOS to the latest revision. It finds the
hardware and sets it up, but whenever I try to use minicom or any other
utility it is very slow to respond- takes about 10 seconds for the initial
"ATZ" to show up onscreen. Needless to say any attempts at PPP fail
miserably. I have the module from 2.4.17 and mwavemd from Debian woody (my
system is 100% woody at the moment).
 The sound hardware is not found at all by ALSA. I've followed every
single instruction on every TP600 site I've found, but it still says
"CS4236+ soundcard not found or device busy" even after setting all the
IRQs and such. PNP is handled by the bios, pnpdump doesn't find any
non-configured PNP devices.

Does anybody have any idea on how to solve these problems?
Thanks in advance.

-Claudio Leite

PS - after upgrading my BIOS, my hard drive now makes an annoying "clunk"
sound after it writes. Has anybody else experienced this? (I noticed one
post about it about a month ago in the archives w/o replies, so I'm
assuming no.)



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