[wplug] IBM Thinkpad APM/ACPI: what to do next?

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:01:44PM -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> 2. Somehow upgrade my BIOS (surely there is community support for such a
> thing?)

It turns out that you can run IBM's BIOS-upgrade-diskette-creator .exe
files just fine under dosemu under linux (the dosemu-freedos Debian
package).

If you have a floppy drive for your laptop, you can then boot that
directly to flash your BIOS.

If not, you can create a bootable CD using the floppy image as the
boot-image.  Check out the archives of the LTP list:
    http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/
(use Google with "site:linux-thinkpad.org", since they don't seem to
have a search function on their site).

This message in particular has instructions:
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u