Installing Gentoo on IBM T41

allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

the access ibm program is installed on another partition of your hard drive separate from windows. it is still there unless you explicitly removed it.

Butts · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 40

Could I see someone's grub.conf that is dual booting with WinXP. I keep getting Error 18.

Thanks.

Matt

geekporn · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-48NT8D

this is ibm stuff... not tested with gentoo but there are resources at the bottom of the page that might help in configureing bluetooth, wireless, accessing recovery partition, etc.

!db! · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

Butts wrote

sebbb · Guru Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 400 Location: [FR] - Paris

Butts · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 40

I have cpufreqd working, but I want to be able to adjust the frequency myself. I am trying to do this with the gkrellm plugin, but it keeps hanging.

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

Butts · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 40

Also, when I shutdown my system from Gentoo, everything halts, but the system never fully powers down. I have to hold the power button for five seconds.

What is causing this and how do I fix it?

Matt

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allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

kdag

hi t41 users!
i just found this thread, i have had a gentoo only stage2 install since 4months now,
finally i have some time to try to "fix" my xorg.conf so to be able to control any video projector as a second screen, i have tried tweaking the xorg.conf file but no luck yet, i have drm working and im afriad of messing to much to break it all. is there someone ho has it already working?

i mean, t41 with a ati 7500, 1024x768?

plis share it with me )

and second Q. i have this partition map:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5 37768+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6 72 506520 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 73 3948 29302560 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3949 5168 9223200 83 Linux

i have the IBM restore cds, i planned before to install the windows but someone told me that they run installing all into the 1st partition and i dont want to do that. So, is it possible to do the install in that last partition hda4?? if not can someone tell me how to make it of any use since i have it as a free space.

thnks

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lahaine · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 17 Location: England

Hi, thanks a lot for the guide - it was very useful!

However, although I successfully installed Gentoo side-by-side with XP Pro on my T41, and dual-booting worked fine, and most of the laptop features were working under Gentoo, I had to remove Gentoo.

The problem was that I could see the linux partitions under Windows! They were there as raw partitions, which meant it gave them drive letters, which made Explorer hard to use - every time I accidentally selected on of the linux drives, it offered to format it!

I scoured the forums, I scoured Google, I tried reinstalling Gentoo twice, starting from scratch, but to no avail. I tried ext2, ext3 and reiserfs, and it also happened with the swap partition. I've installed Gentoo successfully on many machines, mostly dual-booting with Windows 2000 or XP, and never seen this elsewhere.

Anyone any ideas? I had a large NTFS partition for Win XP (shrunk from the original 60 GB), then hda2 was boot, hda3 was swap, hda4 was root - all primaries. Nothing else there.

Boworr · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

lahaine,

Windows can't read Linux formatted file systems natively unless you choose FAT32 (VFAT). When you booted into Windows it offered to format your drives because it couldn't find any filesystem it knew about.

There are some utilities/drivers that allow you to access linux filesystems from Windows but I use Paragon's Mount Everything http://www.mount-everything.com/

SiggiS · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Germany

Hi,

I got my T41p some weeks ago and now I want to install it on this machine. So anyone here who installed gentoo from scratched in the last few weeks and get tell me how it works and how long it takes ... Im not sure if I do a install from boostrap.

I hope for some answers

Greetings Marc

zbindere · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 356 Location: Switzerland

I have problems getting wireless to work. I emerged ipw2100 and then:

daff · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

I was under the impression that most of the IBM Thinkpads use an Atheros based wireless card, not an Intel Pro Wireless, at least I was told so in some other thread in OTW. Maybe you should try using the madwifi drivers? Just a thought.
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lahaine · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 17 Location: England

The Centrino Thinkpads have the Intel Pro Wireless by definition, and that's how mine came.

However, as that only does 802.11b, I whipped that out and installed the IBM a/b/g wifi card, which is based on the Atheros chipset. (The a coverage at work is much better than the g). You can get this IBM card as a standard install thing, depends which model you choose.

I believe newer Centrino kits can do b and g now.

The cool thing was, the BIOS screen when I first booted after changing cards changed form a big Centrino logo to a small Pentium M logo. I guess the 855 chipset checks each of the three Centrino components...

daff · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

Hm that's good to know! So the Centrino-Thinkpads have an IPW chip and the non-Centrinos are Atheros based. So I suppose this T41p (which I plan to get) has an Atheros card since I don't see any indication that it is a Centrino model.
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lahaine · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 17 Location: England

daff, yes - your model laptop is very similar to mine, and as it says

'IBM 11a/b/g Wi-Fi Wireless'

it contains the Atheros chip for wifi, which is what I upgraded to.

woodwizzle · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 225

I'm thinking about getting a thinkpad to put gentoo on as well! Great article. Is it possible to get the fingerprint scanners to work in linux?

stgreek · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:16 am Post subject:

markandrew · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

lahaine - did you tag the partitions as linux ones? if you used windows to create the partitions in the firts place they were prob tagged as windows, even if you later formatted them with ext2 or whatever.

euphorium · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 14

I posted a comment here about an emerge problem I have but it has to do with my wireless problem as well. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here that has posted has gotten their wireless card working.

I have been working with gentoo for a few years now, but this new networking setup is a bit confusing to me. Easier yes but, way different than 6 - 12 months ago. Any ideas would be great!

I am running a T41:
Pentium M 1600
1 GB Memory
ATI Mobility - radeon
Intel Wireless - ipw2100
Gigafast Net - e1000

Here is the error I get with:

dmesg | grep ipw2100