Mailing List ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #220

From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Checkini
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:03:54 -0400
To: ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
 "Jon Harrison" <ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:23:53 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

wpsreset V1.0.8 (Jun  7 2008) (C) 1998-2005 Ulrich Möller
Restarts the Workplace Shell process.
Usage: wpsreset -D

6-07-08  1:08a        20,727      0 a---  WPSRESET.EXE

While the version number in RC5 agrees, the files are of different lengths (the one form RC5 is smaller and has a 5/5/2008 date on it). I've attached it for you to test.

For clarity, the file attached is from a running RC5 install with plain eWPS.


Lewis:

I'm running rc4 on my T61.  
Oops! I forgot, Jon. Sorry about that.

The file you sent came across as 26112 bytes, and of course, the
date was modified by the email.
Ugh.

Whatever, it works fine on my T61.

Interesting.

I have the same named file and size on my v1.2 desktop w/ eCenter. I tried that one and it hangs the T61 with the wow-wow of the sound
card endlessly looping due to, I presume, an interrupt problem (why
that should happen on a wps reset is beyond me, seems that
interrupts should be set on the original bootup and not changed by
a wps reset).

I suppose it's because the desktop reset is attempting to reset the sound card and not releasing the interrupt first. We should report this to Paul, if he doesn't catch this thread. That's the only thing I can think of which might cause this (though if the wpsreset utility should be the one to disconnect, it may not be UniAUD's fault). You say that it works without any problem with the latest one in the xwp package, correct? If so, we should report this in the eCS bugtracker, as they should be aware that the version bundled with RC5's eWPS, while reporting the same version string as xwp's, is a different file and not working with this hardware. I don't have an otherwise-unbuggy HDA system aside from the T61 to test to see if it's *just* the T61 (or just *your* T61, as you point out).

The point of my original email was that if anyone w/ a T61 has a
problem w/ Checkini they may want to replace the file in their
checkini directory with a recent wpsreset (from XWP or eWPS) and
rename it to match the file that checkini calls (named
resetwps.exe).

Right. I gathered this after my second reading of your post (the first time I was reading from my phone, and when lines are broken in odd places, it sometimes breaks the flow of logic, as well).

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Lewis
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Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLE, CLP
Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC
Accountants / Network Consultants
New York / Northern Virginia
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