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:
1) Load Fedora 9 on it until F10 comes out and then upgrade 2) Load the latest F10 build and "ride rawhide" for about 4 weeks 3) Just wait until F10 final gets here and live with the Win XP preload til then
...Obviously I'd prefer option 3 the least!
Here's the catch: 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'm thinking I will load F10b now, add the iwl5001 series firmware, patch to latest rawhide specs and then try not to cause a situation that destroys the NIC.
Any thoughts, pointers, or warnings appreciated!
Cheers,
Chris
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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.
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 08:47 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: <snip...>
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.
<snip...>
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.
F10 x86_64 Snap 2 and then update to Rawhide it shall be then! I appreciate it a lot - Thanks!
BTW, mine is slightly different - No camera, and Intel 5100 series WiFi instead of 5300 (our procurement guy was totally on the cheap getting these for us, grrrr..., but that's a story for a different time), but it does have ATI graphics and the fingerprint reader. We also loaded them up with 4GB RAM as we'll be using them to run VMs for demos and such. We'll be running an implementation of VI3 3.5 via VMware Workstation 6.5 on a ThinkPad T400.
Oh, and for notorious e1000e bug - it was only lethal on i386, x86_64 kernels were safe.
Good to know as well - I'll have to update my coworker who got one of these too (although he's decided to run Ubuntu). He was sure it hit all of the kernels.
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Chris
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