From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.201.247]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2340252 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:14:05 -0500 Message-ID: <49A82D4B.5020301@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:13:31 -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 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 02/25/09 12:29 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:37:43 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > It was just a single, constant tone... I've had this kind of noise > before. I think it was caused by two different programs trying to > create sound at the same time. > > I agree that an IRQ (or other resource) conflict could cause this symptom. I'm just wondering what a 2.4GHz cordless phone might have had to do with it... >> 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... >> > > T60 does have BT. I've never tried to use it. W/O looking, I > have no clue if it is ON/OFF. Since eCS has no support, I've > never bothered to look at it. > > The hardware manual says that the light is on when it is awake and off when it is not. (It also says that the Wi-Fi indicator is on solid when the Wi-Fi is enabled, and blonking when data is transmitted...) Not much help on this one, I'm afraid. -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------