From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.22]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPSA id 1877908 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:48:32 -0400 Message-ID: <48173541.8070309@2rosenthals.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:48:33 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080326 MultiZilla/1.8.3.4e SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] eCS 1.2R installation References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/29/08 10:32 am, Chuck McKinnis thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> On 04/29/08 12:36 am, Chuck McKinnis thus wrote : >>> Paul Smedley wrote: >>>> Hi Chuck, >>>> >>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:12 -0600 >>>> "Chuck McKinnis" wrote: >>>>> Now for the details. >>>>> Do not install a sound driver, it will not work either. However, >>>>> you do >>>>> want the multimedia support so that UniAud can be added later. I >>>>> tried >>>>> UniAud 1.9.3, but it seems to hang when populating the desktop. I >>>>> then >>>>> copied in the working uniaud16.sys from eCS 2.0 w/ACPI installed, >>>>> and it >>>>> hung opening the WPS as well. I suspect an IRQ issue. I commented >>>>> out >>>>> the uniaud drivers and was able to boot normally. Suggestions >>>>> welcome. >>>> >>>> For now - use Uniaud 1.9.2 for HDA devices - works fine and no >>>> hangs here. The code that make it work is a kludge though that >>>> breaks other non-HDA devices. >>>> >>>> Still working on a solution for 1.9.4 that will work on all devices. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Paul. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the tip. Got in a tight loop on the first re-boot, but >>> the next re-boot seemed to clear it up. >>> >> Chuck, your directions imply the availability of a floppy device. >> What about for those who do not have a docking station available? I'm >> thinking that the only fix would be to modify the CD image and re-burn. >> > > USB floppy is the easiest solution. > I was under the impression that we lost control over the USB port at that point, but I guess that early on, it's BIOS-controlled (no drivers loaded yet). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------