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psrivats

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 23

Docking station support for thinkpad R50p

I have a docking station with my thinkpad R50p but I cannot use it. Power is recognized, but nothing else is (e keyboard/mouse/network).  Here is the acpi list:

[psrivats@R50p ~]$ ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/acpi
total 204
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5916 Mar 15 16:10 ac.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9116 Mar 15 16:10 acpi_pad.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13955 Mar 15 16:10 battery.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9174 Mar 15 16:10 button.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5178 Mar 15 16:10 container.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6162 Mar 15 16:10 fan.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7780 Mar 15 16:10 pci_slot.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13683 Mar 15 16:10 power_meter.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44889 Mar 15 16:10 processor.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6860 Mar 15 16:10 sbshc.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15099 Mar 15 16:10 sbs.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19147 Mar 15 16:10 thermal.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27878 Mar 15 16:10 video.ko

Here is the output from hwdetect:

[psrivats@R50p ~]$  hwdetect --modules 
MODULES=(ac battery button processor thermal video floppy cdrom agpgart\
 intel-agp intel-rng lp nvram ppdev hid i2c-i801 i2c-core evdev joydev pcspkr psmouse\
 serio_raw led-class parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp thinkpad_acpi rtc-cmos \
rtc-core rtc-lib output iTCO_vendor_support iTCO_wdt crc-ccitt ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss\
 snd-pcm-oss snd snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 \
snd-intel8x0m soundcore scsi_mod ata_piix e1000 irtty-sir nsc-ircc sir-dev ppp_generic\
 slhc irda mac80211 rfkill ath5k ath cfg80211 pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket\
usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd sd_mod sr_mod st) 
[psrivats@R50p ~]$

'dock' seems to be missing in the modules list from hwdetect ... what should I do to enable docking station support? I am running 2.6.32-ARCH i686.

Last edited by psrivats (2010-03-29 17:28:23)

psrivats

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 23

Re: Docking station support for thinkpad R50p

Anyone?