Thinkpad 600e interrupt storm

[Understudy]

Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Karel Miklav wrote:
>
>> tp# kldload smapi
>
>
> Right, and the kernel will display something like this if it finds it.
>
> smapi0: <SMAPI BIOS> at iomem 0xfe9a0-0xfe9bf on motherboard
> smapi0: Version: 0.83, Length: 32, Checksum: 0x43
> smapi0: Information=0x7<REAL_VM86,PROTECTED_16,PROTECTED_32>
>
>> smapi: open(/dev/smapi0, ...): No such file or directory
>> tp# mknod smapi c 0 0   <-- a wild guess
>
>
> Nope, not with DEVFS.
>
> I'm guessing that the orm(4) driver has claimed that BIOS region.  
> You'll have to load the module from the loader.
>
> Add 'smapi_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
>
Thanks for the help here is where I am at. I had the file untarred in 
/tmp already so I just went from there.

Slacker# cd usr.sbin/smapi
Slacker# ee Makefile
I added BINDIR=/usr/sbin tot he Makefile here.
Slacker# make all install
Warning: Object directory not changed from original /tmp/usr.sbin/smapi
install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555   smapi /usr/sbin
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 smapi.8.gz  /usr/share/man/man8
Slacker# kldload smapi
Slacker# kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1    8 0xc0400000 42ec90   kernel
 2    1 0xc1560000 4000     logo_saver.ko
 3    1 0xc1573000 17000    linux.ko
 4    1 0xc19d7000 3000     smapi.ko
Slacker# rehash
Slacker# smapi config serial
[Serial Port Settings]

Commands:
        A/              Serial Port A Settigs
        B/              Serial Port A Settigs
        MWAVE/          Serial Port A Settigs

 Port Enabled  IRQ  Address
----- -------- ---- ------------------------
    A  No(No)  255(4) 0x2f3d-0x2f44(0x3f8-0x3ff)
    B  No(No)  -    -
MWAVE Yes(Yes) 3(3) 0x2f8-0x2ff(0x2f8-0x2ff)

Note: CMOS settings appear inside of ().

Slacker# rehash
Slacker#


Oaky my question is this do I  do this:
mknod smapi c 0 0   <-- a wild guess
or go for another step like
Add 'smapi_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf ?


Sincerely,
Brendhan