Guide for Thinkpad T41

Hi,

Does anybody have any info or links on setting up Gentoo on
a Thinkpad
T41? I have found allot of mixed info on it. Some outdated,
some
incomplete etc...  In particular, I am looking for solid
info on the
following:

Set up the hard drive and power management stuff rignt, 
Use the best and most up to date graphics driver
Set up xorg.cong to make use of a second display, usb mouse
etc...
Wireless networking (hopefully a great gui to scan for
access points!)
CDRW 

I plan on using gnome, xcdroast, open office, evolution,
gnucash, etc...

I really just want to make sure that I start off on the
right foot. I
don't have much experience with laptops.

Thanks
rick

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> Sent: 21 February 2007 14:11
> To: gentoo-laptoplists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Guide for Thinkpad T41
> 
> Does anybody have any info or links on setting up
Gentoo on a Thinkpad
> T41? I have found allot of mixed info on it. Some
outdated, some
> incomplete etc...  In particular, I am looking for
solid info on the
> following:
> 
> Set up the hard drive and power management stuff rignt,

> Use the best and most up to date graphics driver
> Set up xorg.cong to make use of a second display, usb
mouse etc...
> Wireless networking (hopefully a great gui to scan for
access points!)
> CDRW 

Guide for the Thinkpad T42
http://fu
rius.ca/techdoc/misc/thinkpad.html

Gentoo Forum Thread
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=946188#946188


Linux on Laptops
http://www.l
inux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html

Any use?


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mail schrieb:

> Does anybody have any info or links on setting up
Gentoo on a Thinkpad
> T41? I have found allot of mixed info on it. Some
outdated, some
> incomplete etc...  In particular, I am looking for
solid info on the
> following:

Try http://thinkwiki.
org/wiki/ThinkWiki

> Set up the hard drive and power management stuff rignt,


HDAPS, Suspend-to-disk, Suspend-to-ram, tp-fancontrol and
cpufreqd works
just fine.
lm_sensors won't work but you can get all the important
information in
/proc/acpi/ibm/*

> Use the best and most up to date graphics driver

x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati (6.6.3) works well.
I don't think you need an up to date graphics driver for an
old laptop.
There are no more changes in the support for the Radeon
Mobility 7500.

> Wireless networking (hopefully a great gui to scan for
access points!)

There are different wireless cards used in the T41.
Atheros AR5212 is well supported
(madwifi, wpa_supplicant, etc.)


Have fun!
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Mike Shaw schrieb:

> I would have to disagree on the "well
supported" part of ththe above
> comment.  In my experience it depends on what you are
doing.  I have
> found trying to use madwifi along with wpa_supplicant
and trying to do
> WEP or LEAP just does not work, at least with DHCP.  I
have tested and
> tried multiple kernel, madwifi and wpa_supplicant
versions and with all
> the same result.  My test bed is T41 and my home
Linksys WRT54G(which
> has run both native Linksys and DD-WRT software) and
IBM's own internal
> network.

My AP is an Asus WL500G Premium with OpenWRT. I have no
problems with
WPA and WPA2, both with DHCP.
Even aircrack is working fine(haven't tested injection yet,
but scanning
and airodump work)

Maybe the WEP support is a bit buggy.
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