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Hardware - Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
DeepDayze - 31.12.2005, 20:51 Uhr
Titel: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
I am considering installing kanotix on an IBM Thinkpad T22 that I just purchased. Any considerations for this particular notebook?
Swynndla - 31.12.2005, 22:58 Uhr
Titel: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Some IBM laptops where they have a recovery partition at the start of the hard drive have an issue ... if you want to have windows and linux and want to dual boot, and you install grub to the mbr, but when you reboot you don't get a grub menu and can't boot linux or windows ... the fix (if this happens) is to go into your bios and change the recovery partition setting from "hidden" to unhidden. Then grub understands what's going on and everything will work.
grell - 01.01.2006, 13:18 Uhr
Titel: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
I use 2005-03 on a t23 and I'm quite happy with it. I erased the recovery partition and installed WinXP and Kanotix myself as I was used to. I never bothered to use advanced power-up/down features, I just use the t23 like my desktop machine and everything is fine.
Georg
DeepDayze - 01.01.2006, 19:26 Uhr
Titel: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Thanks for the replies. I do not have the recovery partition as the machine's a refurbished one and the HD is new. It currently has Win2K installed. Will try installing Kanotix on a spare notebook HD I have
DeepDayze - 04.01.2006, 17:08 Uhr
Titel: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
OK, I got Kanotix installed on the Thinkpad and so far works well pretty much out of the box. Even the wireless card worked perfectly without needing ndiswrapper. Just also had to do a little tweaking to get the ACPI features on this machine set up properly. Thanks for a great distro, Kano Cool
dprice - 04.05.2006, 02:13 Uhr
Titel: thinkpad T22
deepdayze:

any chance you could elaborate on acpi tweaking on your T22? i have the same machine and i'd love to get suspend to ram and/or suspend to disk working. i'm still trying to figure out hotswapping in the ultrabay also. thanks for any pointers.
Crust - 04.05.2006, 02:15 Uhr
Titel: RE: thinkpad T22
Thinkpads are probably the best supported notebooks out there.
Check: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

For ACPI,

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_ACPI_work

-Crust
DeepDayze - 06.05.2006, 16:45 Uhr
Titel: RE: thinkpad T22
@dprice: I did not do any special ACPI tweaking on my T22 as I didn't need the suspend to ram feature. When I have time I may play with tweaking the ACPI to make suspend work.
Anthony - 08.05.2006, 02:49 Uhr
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Kanotix is great. I just wish my lcd screen was a little brighter Smilie
I ran Kanotix on a couple different T20's for months and months, now I've been running it on a T23 for months and months and months. I don't need the ACPI, and about the only thing out of the ordinary I do is run the Kanotix Network Card Script manually each boot to activate the lan or wlan. I have a brand new T60, fully loaded, which I would love to install kanotix on. It's running XP pro, but it's my work laptop, and it's a windows shop Traurig

Thinkpads in any flavor are great for kanotix.
DeepDayze - 13.05.2006, 17:15 Uhr
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Why not see if you can dual-boot it or use a Kano-CD?
xxgsf - 16.05.2006, 05:52 Uhr
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I have Kanotix installed on my T21 and it works great, supertux doesn't work though (sound skips Traurig )...
Anthony - 29.05.2006, 02:52 Uhr
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DeepDayze hat folgendes geschrieben::
Why not see if you can dual-boot it or use a Kano-CD?


I did stick the brand new Easter Kanotix CD in the T60. Doesn't detect anything, no sound, no network, no wlan, no nothing.
Not too concerned though. My T23 with the Easter Install is running fine for home/personal use.
DeepDayze - 29.05.2006, 03:43 Uhr
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The T60 is a rather new machine...not sure if the devices are detected out of the box.
Anthony - 29.05.2006, 06:28 Uhr
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DeepDayze hat folgendes geschrieben::
The T60 is a rather new machine...not sure if the devices are detected out of the box.


they are not detected at all.
al3 - 29.05.2006, 23:09 Uhr
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Anthony hat folgendes geschrieben::
DeepDayze hat folgendes geschrieben::
Why not see if you can dual-boot it or use a Kano-CD?


I did stick the brand new Easter Kanotix CD in the T60. Doesn't detect anything, no sound, no network, no wlan, no nothing.
Not too concerned though. My T23 with the Easter Install is running fine for home/personal use.


hmmm. Makes no sense. Did you try with the boot parms:
acpi=off noapic nolapic

Try it and see if that works with the network at least. Sound is another matter.

Al
h2 - 06.06.2006, 20:53 Uhr
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t41 works great too, as noted, if you want a laptop that is going to have great support, get an ibm. Except for the very latest, since support for those probalby is still not in the kernel, the new ibms do a lot of really annoying stuff that I know I don't want.

Just so you know, read recently, all of redhat uses ibm/lenova laptops, I believe it's the laptop of choice of the free software foundation, gnu, etc.

I haven't tested my wireless so I can't say if it works or not, suspend to ram works, you need to use kpowersaved, not klaptopd, which has been abandonned and is not being developed anymore.

I had a glitch with my swap, or else my suspend to swap would also work, I'll fix that one of these days, powersave just doesn' t know about my swap partition but would write to it if it could learn where it is.

Sound works perfectly. I don't use that hidden stuff, it's a reformatted hard drive with standard xp/kanotix dual booting, though I basically never use xp, I should shrink its partition down.
Anthony - 16.08.2006, 22:54 Uhr
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after much debate on whether or not to install kanotix on my T60, I decided to go ahead and install. (easter edition)
Installed to the hard drive great, kept windows, kept the ibm service partition and everything.

Only problem is I have no network and no wlan.

the internal network card is an Intel E1000 Network Card
the wlan is IPW3945 Card from Intel

If anyone can help me get either of these going, without using ndiswrapper, beer twelve packs will come your way Winken

thanks in advance!
ockham23 - 16.08.2006, 23:04 Uhr
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Let's begin with the network card. Connect it to your router, open Konsole and enter
Code:
ifconfig -a

If interface "eth0" shows up, you can configure it with
Code:
sux
netcardconfig

Select it from the list of interfaces and enable "DHCP" if your router is set to assign IP adresses dynamically.
ockham23 - 16.08.2006, 23:12 Uhr
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WLAN may be a different story: http://kanotix.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-19743-highlight-ipw3945.html
Or try ndiswrapper. There's nothing wrong with using Windows drivers on Linux.
Anthony - 16.08.2006, 23:12 Uhr
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it doesn't show up
there's nothing in there but lo
Anthony - 16.08.2006, 23:20 Uhr
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give me a moment to install the .17 smp kernel and see what happens.

I am on aol im = keeblin90210 if anyone wants to chat Winken
ockham23 - 16.08.2006, 23:20 Uhr
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Shut windows down entirely, no hibernate or suspend. Then try it again.
ockham23 - 16.08.2006, 23:28 Uhr
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Zitat:
it doesn't show up
there's nothing in there but lo

Did you append the "-a" argument?
Anthony - 16.08.2006, 23:40 Uhr
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of course Smilie

after upgrading to kernel 2.6.17.8-slh-smp-1, I now have the internal lan working out of the box with netcardconfig.

Now working on the wlan
Anthony - 16.08.2006, 23:50 Uhr
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hmm. i installed the ipw3945*.deb's after the kernel upgrade like the kanotix faq on kernel upgrades suggest, and I thought that would do it, but nothing.
I have lan right now, I can throw in an old pcmcia card that I know works if I wish. but the internal wlan is my ultimate goal on this bad boy.
ockham23 - 16.08.2006, 23:59 Uhr
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A user from Germany reported that he had to unload and reload the module to make the driver work:
http://kanotix.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-19443-highlight-ipw3945.html
slh - 17.08.2006, 00:02 Uhr
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ipw3945 is still guessing in the dark for us, it differs quite a lot from other wlan drivers due to stupid regulatory domain dæmon issues and we don't have any way to test or debug it ourselves; although some things seem to be progressing slowly right now.
Anthony - 17.08.2006, 00:10 Uhr
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i'm doing a dist-upgrade right now on the T60, so the compter's tied up right now, but how do you unload and reload the modules...
I don't speak German very well Traurig
ockham23 - 17.08.2006, 08:36 Uhr
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Go to the thread that I posted earlier and ask your question in English. Chances are guido17 will read it and give you some more information.
Anthony - 17.08.2006, 22:45 Uhr
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OK, here is how I did it Winken

I installed fresh copy of 2006-easter-rc4
I installed 2.6.17.8-slh-smp-1 kernel
I went to install ipw3945-modules-2.6.17.8-slh-smp-1 from the kernel zip archive...
But it told me I needed ipw3945-ucode, ipw3945-ucode-1.13, and ipw3945d

I used my other computer, downloaded those 3 .deb's to a thumbdrive and installed them on the T60.

Then I went back and installed the ipw3945-modules-2.6.17.8-slh-smp-1 from the kernel zip archive.

When I want to run the ipw3945 daemon, I run as root, /sbin/ipw3945d
Then I run the Kanotix netcardconfig and it will connect even with WPA2 at 54.

Smilie
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