Dnia 2008-10-23, czw o godzinie 18:15 -0600, Christopher A. Williams pisze:
I just got a shiny new (OK - since they're black finish, they're not actually shiny <smile>) Lenovo ThinkPad T400 model 2765-T6U. I'm trying to decide if I should:
Yeah, I preferred titanium finish on my earlier z61t. Anyway, I have T400 also.
This new series ThinkPad has _both_ the notorious Intel e1000e Gig-e NIC (the hardware of which a certain recent kernel bug has taken a likening to eating) and the Intel IWL5001 series WiFi card. It also has ATI graphics.
I tried with rawhide first, but couldn't get graphical installation to work; Native, intel driver (I don't have ATI) would halt the computer on load, vesa driver showed only garbage on screen. Intel driver was fixed last week and I have F10 installed now. And suprisingly, almost everything seems to work. Even webcam, thanks to it beeing UVC. I havent tried fingerprint yet, but AFAIK libfprint doesn't have a driver yet -- this is new hardware, different from earlier Thinkpads. Wifi (AGN5300) works even better than iwl3945 from z61t -- it detects more networks and doesn't slowdown to 1MBps after few hours of use.
So go with latest rawhide, by installing from Snap2 or directly by download boot.iso and installing from network.
Oh, and for notorious e1000e bug - it was only lethal on i386, x86_64 kernels were safe.