[ltp] lspnp & setpnp which distros?

Tony Sequeira linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:51:02 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:48:21 +0100, Michael Hagemann wrote

> 
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:33:24 -0600 wes schreiner wrote:
> 
> > Bert Haskins wrote:
> > 
> > > Which distros have lspnp & setpnp?
> > > These don't seem to be available on RedHat, can they be added?
> > > Thanks, Bert
> >
> > lspnp/setpnp come with the pcmcia package.  But the real question
is 
> > which distros have PNP support patched in, as PNP support is not in 
> > mainline 2.4.x, though it is in 2.6.  I think RedHat has it, but
not 
> > Debian, and I don't know about other distros.
> 
> Actually it is in 2.4 for a while now (2.4.18?).  The problem was,
that
> the IBM pnp implementation isn't standard.  The -ac patches used fix
> this (because Alan Cox owns a thinkpad, too), but I think at least the
> 2.4.23 kernel incorporates those by now...

I can confirm that it does, I recently upgraded from 2.4.22-ac4 to
2.4.23 and all is well.

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Tony