Installing Gentoo on IBM T41

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allucid · Post by **allucid** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:20 am

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 · Post by **Butts** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:47 pm

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

Thanks.

Matt

geekporn · Post by **geekporn** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:07 am

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-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! · Post by **!db!** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:16 pm

Butts wrote

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

Not sure if this helps, but dual booting works in my case with this very basic setup

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default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=GENTOO 2.6.7-r8
root (hd0,1)
kernel /kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda4 video=vesa,mtrr

title=WINDOWS XPpro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

You can look up additional 'related' settings (fstab, etc.) on the previous page.

sebbb · Post by **sebbb** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:19 pm

miju wrote:the only thing that i don't like is to restart the computer if i want to use atitvout...

Sorry for my english...
How to use atitvout ?

I've always (even with '-f' argument) :

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VBE call failed

I'm using gentoo-source (2.4)

Must I use the 2.6 kernel sources ?

Thanks

Butts · Post by **Butts** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:40 pm

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 · Post by **Butts** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:41 pm

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

sebbb · Post by **sebbb** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:47 am

Butts wrote: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

Have you include the APM support in your kernel ?

Who have a .config for the 2.6 kernel version ?

allucid · Post by **allucid** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:56 pm

squareHat wrote:So for I have found that you need to have:

Local APIC support on uniprocessors has to be disabled for the machine to shutdown properly

kdag · Post by **kdag** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:10 pm

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

/a

lahaine · Post by **lahaine** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:39 am

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 · Post by **Boworr** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:41 pm

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 · Post by **SiggiS** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:42 pm

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 · Post by **zbindere** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:25 am

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

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modprobe ipw2100

lsmod gives:

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Module                  Size  Used by
ipw2100                88412  0
firmware_class          7680  1 ipw2100
ieee80211              15236  1 ipw2100
ieee80211_crypt         4484  1 ieee80211
sg                     28960  0
snd_mixer_oss          17408  1
snd_intel8x0           28584  2
snd_ac97_codec         67280  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                81928  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              20996  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7560  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         6144  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            19364  1 snd_mpu401_uart
nls_iso8859_1           3968  1
nls_cp437               5632  1
vfat                   11904  1
fat                    38688  1 vfat

when I do:

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ifconfig -a

I only see the ethernet card (eth0) but no wireless card. do I really need the hostab driver? when I emerged ipw2100 I didn't get a message that I needed that driver.

any suggestions?

daff · Post by **daff** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:50 am

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.

lahaine · Post by **lahaine** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 12:11 pm

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 · Post by **daff** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:09 pm

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.

lahaine · Post by **lahaine** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 10:34 am

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 · Post by **woodwizzle** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:14 am

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 · Post by **stgreek** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:16 am

woodwizzle wrote: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?

I dont think there is Linux software yet, but judging from IBM's past it shouldn't be long before it is added. However, if you only use the scanner on boot it is OS-irrelevant, so you should be fine.

markandrew · Post by **markandrew** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:03 pm

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 · Post by **euphorium** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:42 pm

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

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ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.2
ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
ipw2100: eth0: Firmware 'ipw2100-1.3.fw' not available or load failed.
ipw2100: eth0: ipw2100_get_firmware failed: -2
ipw2100: eth0: Failed to power on the adapter.
ipw2100: eth0: Failed to start the firmware.
ipw2100Error calling register_netdev.
ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:02.0 failed with error -5

Thanks!

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