Another 6.1R on a ThinkPad X60s

[Michael Collette]

First off, many thanks to James for getting a thread started on the 
X60s.  I'm not subscribed to the list which makes staying in the thread 
a bit challenging.  Sorry about that.

Anyhow, thought I might have a few tid bits to add about what all is 
working and what isn't.  I'm also very interested in providing for any 
kind of testing of patches that folks a good bit smarter than myself may 
provide.

First off, I tried Ubuntu on here already.  It's not really doing much 
more than what FreeBSD is able to do.  Ubuntu doesn't recognize the 
wireless cards, isn't able to sleep or hibernate, but it does have sound 
working.  I didn't mess with graphics acceleration as that really 
doesn't interest me for this box all that much.

On FreeBSD sound is inop, as has already been stated.  Why on earth 
would a little laptop like this need hi-def audio is beyond me.

I'm unable to put this box to sleep or suspend.  According to the sysctl 
an S3 ACPI request is supported.  What happens is that the screen 
scrolls something like "function not implemented" then the sleep LED 
turns on.  Fans are off, but the back lighting on the screen remains on. 
  There's no waking up from this condition short of a full reboot.

I tried disabling APIC per the handbook suggestion.  No luck.  This box 
won't boot without ACPI support, so I couldn't test APM properly.

While talking about power, it seems that FreeBSD isn't able to tell the 
display to shut off.  This is especially yucky for these LCD displays 
with a limited life span.  This is true at the console with 
"green_saver" loaded, as well as in X.

As for the wireless card, it would appear that the if_ath.ko module 
works.  At least I get a proper entry in the ifconfig listing.  I was 
unable to test actually connecting to a wireless network as of yet. 
Didn't have one handy.  Would be interested in hearing if this works for 
anyone else.

I attempted to get the Sierra Wireless CDMA modem playing.  Added model 
and vendor entries into both umodem.c and usbdevs.  No luck, still 
doesn't see that bugger as a ucom device.  I did this for a PC5740 
PCMCIA card and got it working, but it kernel panics when removing it.

When starting up /etc/rc.d/bluetooth I get back "ERROR: Unsupported 
device:".  I thought that was informative.  I'm guessing the bluetooth 
device in question is the Broadcom (0x0a5c) BCM2045B (0x2110) which 
comes up attached to ugen0.  I haven't made any source code tweaks to 
usbdevs for this one as I'm pretty bluetooth ignorant.  Got a Palm Treo 
to test on it if I can get the service up and going.

On the plus side, a number of things are working properly.  X, fluxbox, 
kde, and firefox are installed on here and working decently.  The 
ethernet is working properly at 1G.  The dual core processor looks to be 
  working solid.

Mostly, the ACPI and sound support are the major show stoppers here for 
me.  Next up would be getting that CDMA card playing properly.  As gravy 
on the top, it'd be pretty cool to get the finger print reader playing, 
which I'll be messing with over the weekend.

If there's any other information I can provide on this box for someone 
interested with supporting this please let me know.

Later on,
-- 
Michael Collette
IT Manager
TestEquity Inc