[CentOS] Linux on a Thinkpad R40

Tue Feb 13 20:14:36 UTC 2007
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 at 3:03pm, Max H. wrote

> John Summerfield wrote:
>> I've just acquired a use IBM Thinkpad R40 model 2722-GDM.
>>
>> The major flies in the ointment are the wireless and the inbuilt modem
>> (Agere something). Google tells me the modem can be made to work, and
>> I'm pretty sure from my Acer that the Atheros wifi also work with some
>> minor fiddling: I've build the driver from source.

In case the OP is not aware:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:R40

> It's extremely stable for me. The only issues I've ever hard are the
> fact that I can't get my machine to wake up correctly when I try to put
> it to sleep, but I've never experimented much on getting it work either
> so it might be something simple. I know I'm not answering your questions
> about RHEL5, but I thought I would share my experience on my R40, and
> specifically mention you can get the RPMs for your wireless through the
> third-party repo.

I had no luck getting my Z61t to wake-up under FC5, but it works *very* 
well under FC6.  I have to imagine, then, that it should work pretty well 
with CentOS5 as well, whereas it may not with CentOS4.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University