[OmniBook] omnibook 500 - docking station - cdrom

[Grant Grundler]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:29:40AM +0800, kusazero wrote:
> 1) is there a way to know if my notebook is connected to the docking station
> correctly

Does the IDE controller in the docking station show up?

e.g.
grundler <506>lspci -vt
-[00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
      +-01.0-[01]----00.0  ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
      +-07.0  Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA
      +-07.1  Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
      +-07.2  Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
      +-07.3  Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
      +-0a.0  Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller
      +-0b.0  3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus [Cyclone]
      +-0b.1  3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem
      +-0d.0  ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator
      \-11.0  Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0648

11.0 is the IDE controller in the docking station.

> 2) how would i remedy my problem, i was considering reinstalling winxp (or
> winME, winxp seems a little slow)

Installing some version of windows is certainly another valid way
to verify the HW is ok.


If the SI0648 IDE controller is visible, then make sure you have
all the necessary modules loaded in your kernel:
grundler <516>lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
usb_storage           109360  0 
sd_mod                 13712  0 
scsi_mod              117256  2 usb_storage,sd_mod
videodev                7200  0 
orinoco_cs             15048  1 
ipt_MASQUERADE          2464  1 
iptable_nat             6436  1 
ipt_TOS                 1856  2 
iptable_mangle          2048  1 
ipt_state               1376  12 
ipt_ULOG                6308  3 
iptable_filter          2144  1 
ip_tables              18048  7 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_TOS,iptable_mangle,ipt_state,ipt_ULOG,iptable_filter
ide_cd                 38468  0 
cdrom                  38208  1 ide_cd
cmd64x                 10652  0 [permanent]
snd_maestro3           22244  0 
snd_ac97_codec         94816  1 snd_maestro3
snd_ac97_bus            1728  1 snd_ac97_codec
usbhid                 29188  0 
uhci_hcd               31340  0 
ip_nat_irc              1888  0 
ip_conntrack_irc        5136  1 ip_nat_irc
ip_nat_ftp              2688  0 
ip_nat                 16108  4 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_ftp        6384  1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack           46668  8 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_state,ip_nat_irc,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_nat_ftp,ip_nat,ip_conntrack_ftp
nfnetlink               4792  2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack
usbkbd                  5728  0 
grundler <517>


Everything works fine if I install the ob500 in the docking station,
then boot linux. I don't trust hotplug/docking while linux is running.

Kernels that "work for me" are available on:
	ftp://gsyprf10.external.hp.com/kernels/ob500/

I reccomend grabbing the /boot/config-2.6.* file from one
of the tar balls and rebuild your own kernel from a kernel.org
source tree to be sure of the content.

grant