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Post subject: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
 Posted: Dec 31, 2005 - 08:51 PM
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| I am considering installing kanotix on an IBM Thinkpad T22 that I just purchased. Any considerations for this particular notebook? |
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Post subject: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Posted: Dec 31, 2005 - 10:58 PM
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| 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. |
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Post subject: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Posted: Jan 01, 2006 - 01:18 PM
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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.
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Post subject: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Posted: Jan 01, 2006 - 07:26 PM
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| 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 |
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Post subject: RE: Kanotix on IBM Thinkpad T22
Posted: Jan 04, 2006 - 05:08 PM
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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  |
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Post subject: thinkpad T22
Posted: May 04, 2006 - 02:13 AM
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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. |
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Post subject: RE: thinkpad T22
Posted: May 04, 2006 - 02:15 AM
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Post subject: RE: thinkpad T22
Posted: May 06, 2006 - 04:45 PM
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| @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. |
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Posted: May 08, 2006 - 02:49 AM
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Kanotix is great. I just wish my lcd screen was a little brighter 
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 
Thinkpads in any flavor are great for kanotix. |
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Posted: May 13, 2006 - 05:15 PM
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| Why not see if you can dual-boot it or use a Kano-CD? |
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Posted: May 16, 2006 - 05:52 AM
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| I have Kanotix installed on my T21 and it works great, supertux doesn't work though (sound skips )... |
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 02:52 AM
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DeepDayze wrote:
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. |
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 03:43 AM
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| The T60 is a rather new machine...not sure if the devices are detected out of the box. |
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 06:28 AM
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DeepDayze wrote:
The T60 is a rather new machine...not sure if the devices are detected out of the box.
they are not detected at all. |
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Posted: May 29, 2006 - 11:09 PM
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Anthony wrote:
DeepDayze wrote:
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.
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Posted: Jun 06, 2006 - 08:53 PM
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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. |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 10:54 PM
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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 
thanks in advance! |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:04 PM
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Let's begin with the network card. Connect it to your router, open Konsole and enter
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ifconfig -a
If interface "eth0" shows up, you can configure it with
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sux
netcardconfig
Select it from the list of interfaces and enable "DHCP" if your router is set to assign IP adresses dynamically. |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:12 PM
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:12 PM
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it doesn't show up
there's nothing in there but lo |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:20 PM
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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 |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:20 PM
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| Shut windows down entirely, no hibernate or suspend. Then try it again. |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:28 PM
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it doesn't show up
there's nothing in there but lo
Did you append the "-a" argument? |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:40 PM
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of course
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 |
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Posted: Aug 16, 2006 - 11:50 PM
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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. |
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