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