IBM R51 on MKD10.1

[Guest lformaggia]

Hi, I have a thinkpad R51 laptop and I am running MD10.1 official with the kernel shipped with the distributioon 2.6.8.1-12mdk (I have also tried 2.6.8.1.24, which works better)

 

I have installed configure-thinkpad and tpctl all right yet apparently tpctl require to access /dev/thinkpad, which should be created by a kernel module that I cannot find anyware in the distribution!!!

 

In the release notes of configure-thinkpad I have found a strange note by bgmilne:

 

Tue Dec 23 2003 Buchan Milne 0.1-1mdk

- First Mandrake package

- We need a better solution for the thinkpad device files ...

 

 

Any hint of where I can find the kernel module for the thinkpad device?

 

P.S. All the rest works fine, wireless included (if you use the 2.6.8.1.12 kernel you have to patch ipw2200)

 

Thank you.

[coverup]

Hi, I have a thinkpad R51 laptop and I am running MD10.1 official with the kernel shipped with the distributioon 2.6.8.1-12mdk (I have also tried 2.6.8.1.24, which works better)

 

I have installed configure-thinkpad and tpctl all right yet apparently tpctl require to access /dev/thinkpad, which should be created by a kernel module that I cannot find anyware in the distribution!!!

 

In the release notes of configure-thinkpad I have found a strange note by bgmilne:

 

Tue Dec 23 2003 Buchan Milne 0.1-1mdk

- First Mandrake package

- We need a better solution for the thinkpad device files ...

 

 

Any hint of where I can find the kernel module for the thinkpad device?

 

P.S. All the rest works fine, wireless included (if you use the 2.6.8.1.12 kernel you have to patch ipw2200)

 

Thank you.

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I run 2.4.x kernel on T41. The thinkpad modules are in /lib/modules/2.4.22-26mdk/kernel/3rdparty/thinkpad/. I also have these lines in /etc/modules

 smapi
thinkpadpm
thinkpad

and also, in /etc/modules.conf

#Added by configure-thinkpad to autoload thinkpad drivers
#path[thinkpad]=/lib/modules/2.4.22-26mdk/thinkpad
#options thinkpad enable_smapi=1 enable_superio=1 enable_rtcmosram=1 enable_thinkpadpm=1
alias char-major-10-170 thinkpad
alias /dev/thinkpad thinkpad
alias /dev/thinkpad/thinkpad thinkpad
alias /dev/thinkpad/smapi smapi
alias /dev/thinkpad/superio superio
alias /dev/thinkpad/rtcmosram rtcmosram
alias /dev/thinkpad/thinkpadpm thinkpadpm

The modules loaded (according to lsmod), though frankly I did not notice any advantage from using them. If somebody can tell what are they suppose to do, I would be glad to know...

Edited April 8, 2005 by coverup