[ltp] 600E-2645-4AU and serial port problems

[Tino Keitel]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 02:18:59 -0500, wes schreiner wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
> 
> >lspnp doesn't work, because I'm using a 2.4 kernel, so there's no 
> >"proc/bus/pnp" as is expected by lspnp. It seems that setpnp/lspnp has 
> >been deprecated in favour of isa-pnp.
> >
> 
> No, PNP support is too new for the the mainline 2.4.x kernel, but you 
> can get it in the -ac patches and it is probably included in others. For 
> example, even a kernel as recent as 2.4.21-pre6 doesn't have PNP, but 
> 2.4.x-ac kernels have had it for about a year. Some vendor kernels may 
> be patched for PNP but I don't know which ones. PNP doesn't really have 
> anything to do with isa-pnp, and isa-pnp devices are obsolescent. Once 
> you boot a kernel with PNP support you will have /proc/bus/pnp, and 
> lspnp/setpnp will work fine.

Another way to get /proc/bus/pnp is to use the pcmcia modules from the
pcmcia-cs package instead of the kernel pcmcia modules. This will also
work with the mainline 2.4.x kernel.

Regards,
Tino