CPU freq adjustment on toshiba m35x-s161

[briand@aracnet.com]

I'm trying to make cpu freq adjustment work on a toshiba m35x-s161.
My task is complicated as this appears to be some sort of toshiba
branded made in china but not really toshiba laptop (if you followed
all that).  basically it has a phoenix bios so the toshiba specific
tools will not work.

ACPI reports the following from dmesg:

ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]

And in fact the lid switch works, oh joy - and the battery reporting
works also.

I have built all of the kernel options which look relevant.
Here is a list of modules :

acpi.ko                speedstep-ich.ko  speedstep-smi.ko
speedstep-centrino.ko  speedstep-lib.ko

ac.ko       button.ko  processor.ko  toshiba_acpi.ko
battery.ko  fan.ko     thermal.ko

cpufreq_performance.ko  cpufreq_powersave.ko

powernowd reports the following :

Starting powernowd: required sysfs objects not found!

and it is correct, there is no CPU entry in sysfs.

most of my module experimentation results in "no such device" errors.

dryrot:/lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/drivers# modprobe speedstep-ich
FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_ich (/lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-ich.ko): No such device

And I never, ever, see anything show up in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/, which is going to be the key to getting
this to work.

It would be nice if I could get standby to work, but that's probably
asking for too much.

Looking for some help - and yes it's a debian system, although I think
this is not so much debian related as kernel related.

Thanks

Brian