From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.15]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2333575 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:38:15 -0500 Message-ID: <49A557B7.4020804@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:37:43 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] A new/odd wrinkle: Phone rings; T60 sound goes wacko! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/24/09 09:05 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > Here's a new one for the books! > > I was using the T60, writing a message, when my cordless telephone > [Panasonic - 2.4GHz] started ringing. Not unusual, but then the sound > on the TPad started a constant, high-pitched alarm-like tone. Only by > using the ThinkVantage [blue rectangle] button to mute the sound would > it stop. > > I should also mention that, contrary to what some others have > experienced, the 'ThinkPad On-Screen Display' tool works for me to > raise/lower/mute the sound. This is why I instinctly pushed the 'mute' > button. > > Was it a coincidence? Or was there really a cause-effect action here? > > Anyone else ever seen such a thing? > > I might expect the cordless phone to disrupt your Wi-Fi, but I've never heard of a feedback condition or an alarm sounding from the unit. Does your model have Bluetooth in it (there would be an icon next to the Wi-Fi indicator)? Naturally, the BT won't do you any good under OS/2 (yet - you never know when we may get support for BT), but the hardware could be awake... -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------