FC3 and ThinkPad T41 - current and prior kernels and other problems.

[Chris Ruprecht]

Hi Harry,

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 18:31 -0500, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Comments in-line:
> 
> 
> hmm, is this a pcmcia card? I have bluetooth but no firewire :-(

yes, they are both PCMCIA cards (the IBM is one of the few machines that
still have 2 slots, I guess - one of the reasons, I bought it). I have
no bluetooth installed at all.

> > 
> > I have the internal IPW2100 card up and running so I can sit in theiving
> > room and watch TV while using the machine ;) - in 11 mbit mode801.11b,
> > not g).
> ah, I have the atheros card (a/b/g) which seems to work very well with 
> the madwifi code.
> 

I had to d/l the firmware and had to build the kernel module initially.
Later FC3 kernels seem to have the module built in.

> > 
> > The only other piece of extra hardware is a Logitech USB optical mouse.
> 
> can't see the mouse making much of a difference
> 

I didn't think it would make a difference either. Would be quite a
blunder if somebody messed that up ;).


> > 
> > Here is a listing of enabled services:
> > K01yum             K50netdump          S09isdn           S54hpoj
> ...
> The list of services looks roughly equiv.
> > 
> > I'm not sure, how much trouble VMWare is - it's telling me when I start
> > it up, that it hasn't been certified on this kernel.
> 
> Yeah, that should be fine... those warning statements are more of a 
> "CYA" clause then anything else. I'm told that versions of VMware 
> workstation before VMwareWorkstation-4.5.2-8848 had troubles but this 
> version works well for me.
> 

That's what I thought, too. 

> > 
> I have the bluetooth, acpi, modem all working and can share code/configs.
> The only trouble I had with acpi was a local mysql server running seems 
> that it needs to be stopped before hibernating.
> pmail me for any of the configs and best of luck.

I have not used the modem at all. The internal ethernet card (Gigabit
wired) is working just fine, too. All my configs are stock standard,
except ntp config where I set up a few other non-redhat time servers.

Maybe the crashes are just part of the package deal for teying to be at
the bleeding edge?

Thanks for the help,
Chris

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