Could not load thinkpad_ec on Karmic (ThinkPad X61s)

[Thomas Schewe]

I got an error while modpobing thinkpad_ec:

thosch@Thinka:/etc$ sudo modprobe thinkpad_ec tp_smapi hdaps
FATAL: Error inserting thinkpad_ec (/lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic/extra/thinkpad_ec.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

What dmesg tells me:
[52633.650326] thinkpad_ec: Unknown parameter `tp_smapi'

Output of lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

tp-smapi-source:
  Installiert: 0.40-5
  Kandidat: 0.40-5
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.40-5 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

I think this is just incorrect usage of modprobe, see --help output, it only accepts one module at a time and interprets the following pieces as module-options:

$ modprobe -h
Usage: modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-d <dirname> ] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o <modname>] [ --dump-modversions ] <modname> [parameters...]
modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ...
modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...]

So the correct way would be to do this in separate steps like this:
 sudo modprobe thinkpad_ec
 sudo modprobe tp_smapi
 sudo modprobe hdaps

Therefore I am closing this as invalid, please try it this way and reopen if there are other errors reported in dmesg this way.

[Thomas Schewe (thosch66)]

@Dominik
Thanks for information and sorry for the unnecessary work.

I copied the command-line from an artikel in the ThinkWiki. The author used this syntax and I didn't check it. :-(

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

You can also use option "-a" with modprobe to load multiple modules at once.

I fixed the description at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_9.04_%28Jaunty_Jackalope%29_on_a_ThinkPad_T61#Enabling_Active_Protection_System