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

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:07:39 -0500, wes schreiner wrote:
> Tino Keitel wrote:
> 
> >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
> > 
> >
> Hmm, I'm compiling pcmcia-cs from source (Debian woody package
> pcmcia-source, containing pcmcia-cs version 3.1.33) and I'm not
> seeing any /proc/bus/pnp unless I boot an -ac kernel. What module
> creates
> /proc/bus/pnp? I have the following pcmcia-cs modules loaded: 

You have to edit the /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/debian/rules file and
add --pnp to the ./Configure calls. Then the modules will be built with
PnP BIOS support.

Regards,
Tino