IBM/Lenovo T42p with CentOS-4/5
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1. The Laptop
Manufacturer: IBM/Lenovo Model: T42p Type 2373 CPU: Intel Pentium-M 1.80GHz RAM: 1.5GB Hard drive capacity: 100GB
2. Hardware
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2] (rev 80) 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03) 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)
- CD/DVD read: OK
- CD/DVD write: OK - using k3b
- LAN: OK
- Wireless: IPW2200 OK - using ipw2200-firmware-3.0-3.nodist.rf from RPMforge
- Sound: OK
- Video: OK with xorg-x11-drv-ati. Have also used ATI proprietary drivers, but they are always problematic on updates.
- USB: OK
- Firewire: Not present
- Media card reader: Not present
- Touchpad or other pointing device: OK - use ksynaptics to disable annoying "click-on-touch" Tapping feature.
- Accelerator buttons (music, DVD, web, other): Not used.
- Adaptive CPU speed: OK
- Sense battery level: OK
- Suspend (manual): Video problematic - I don't use.
- Suspend (close lid): Disabled.
3. Additional information
Using wpa_supplicant with IPW2200 and NetworkManager works after some tweaking.
4. Comments
Works well out-of-the-box with CentOS-4/5. Has also run RH9 and Fedora-4/5/6 without major issues.