Max H. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. >> > > > > To address only the Atheros questions, yes it works, no CentOS doesn't > spin up the drivers themselves. I have an R40 (2682-48U) and I don't > build my own drivers, but you can get them in RPM form at the atrpms > repo. Check out the Repos from the wiki if you want to know how to add > atrpms. > > Everytime there is a kernel upgrade, I just wait a few days until the > new madwifi items are re-spun from the atrpms folks, and life has been > good with my wireless for over 2 years now. > > <http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories> > > I've never fired up my modem, so I'm sure if it works or not. But I can > tell you my Atheros chip functions. > > rpm -qa | grep madwifi > > madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at > madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at > madwifi-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at > > These would be the three packages you need from atrpms for it to load up > your wireless. You can compare my model R40 with yours, and if you need > any hardware comparisons, just let me know. > > lspci -v for my Atheros shows: > > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 > 802.11ab NIC (rev 01) > Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8310 > Flags: fast Back2Back, medium devsel, IRQ 11 > Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 That looks to be the one I found at thinkwiki; mine's 11a/g. I'm sure that as far as the software's concerned it's near enough the same. > > Aside from that, I've been extremely pleased with running CentOS on my > R40. I get all the multimedia items from Dag. Xine works great for DVDs, > and XMMS or mplayer for MP3s. > > 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 I'd forgotten about that; OpenSUSE 10.0 suspended and resumed my Acer very nicely, ootb. FC5 doesn't. > 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'm imagining that RHEL5 will be better in all respects than RHEL4, and like a refined FC6:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list