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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:07:23 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>, Michael Lamb <mlamb@o1.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Thinkpad 600E
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030121125627.020e6508@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3E2D41E0.5B2A7B70@portaone.com>
References:  <ABAED2596CA01F49BF2CAE6C82B68071632116@o1-smf2ksvexch.o1.com>

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Hi,

Check your BIOS versions: TP600E BIOS had to be updated for ACPI to work 
with Win2k. The difference may explain the different behaviours.

At 12:49 21/1/03, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>Hmm, strange, pccard works righ OOB on my 600E running current.
>
>-Maxim
>
>Michael Lamb wrote:
> >
> > First time poster and susbscriber, someone suggested that I email my
> > findings to the freebsd-current list, so hopefully this is the right
> > place.
> >
> > I have been playing with FreeBSD 5.0 on my Thinkpad 600E and could not
> > get the pccard to work at at all. So I searched thru some of the
> > archives and pieced some information together enough to get it working.
> >
> > I was able to get it working by disabling acpi by adding the following
> > in /boot/device.hints:
> >
> > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
> >
> > And it was also recommended in some resent posts to the list to add this
> > to the same file to get pccard cardbus to work:
> >
> > hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"
> >
> > >From there I just added the following to /etc/rc.conf:
> > apm_enable="YES"
> > apmd_enable="YES"
> >
> > Hopefully someone might find this information helpful if it has not
> > already been brought up.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Lamb - mlamb@o1.com
> > Sr. Network Engineer - O1 Communications
> >
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