[thinkpad] [ltp] tpctl

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
17 Jan 2003 09:31:58 +0100


On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:19, Bjorn Knutsson wrote:
> on my old 600X, all you needed to do was to use
> cardctl.... I think I even had it working from apmd so that it
> would shut them down when you pressed the hibernate key combo

That doesn't always work.  Sometimes you need to cardctl eject
before you request the suspend, otherwise the firmware will
detect the pcmcia card and reject the request.  It is better
to use a little script that does
    cardctl eject
    apm --suspend

--
Thomas


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