[ltp] Re: ThinkPad Batteries

[Phil Shotton]

# lsmod | grep tp_smapi
[ nothing ]

# modprobe tp_smapi
# lsmod | grep tp_smapi
tp_smapi               29712  0
thinkpad_ec            14736  1 tp_smapi

However:
# /etc/init.d/hdapsd start
 * Not starting hdapsd: /sys/block/sda/queue/protect does not exist, 
please read /usr/share/doc/hdapsd/README.Debian

The document says:
hdapsd needs the hdaps kernel module and the hdaps_protect patch in the 
kernel
so it WON'T work out-of-the-box on a Debian machine yet.

but I thought the whole point of the distro module was that the kernel 
didn't need patching, or have I completely misunderstood?

Re: Please try to keep in mind that top-posting is not very popular.

On the contrary, everyone I know hates bottom-posting because you have 
to wade through the whole trail before you actually find the new post to 
decide whether it's worth reading or not. YMMV.

Cheers
Phil

Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> I'm running Intrepid Ibex. There's no linux-ubuntu-modules-<anything>
>> package :-(
>> Is it in a non-standard repo?
>>     
>
> Have you tried to load the module yet? It may have been installed a part
> of another package.
>
> If the module is missing, you can try the following to find out whether
> it has been packaged and is available from one of the repositories in
> your sources.list:
>
> % sudo aptitude install apt-file
> % sudo apt-file update
> % apt-file search tp_smapi.ko
>
> Regards,
>
> Elias
>
> PS: Did you notice that comment about top-posting at all? You have even
> quoted it, see below.
>
>
>