https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Hwl&feedformat=atomThinkWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T20:39:17ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.12https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_X21&diff=34127Installing Ubuntu on a ThinkPad X212007-10-26T13:21:29Z<p>Hwl: </p>
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<div>Because the {{X21}} does not have room for a CDROM, one must plug it into the dock to perform a CD based install.<br />
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Using the Live CD for any of the {{Ubuntu}} versions listed above, I was able to get the Live CD to boot, but installing {{Ubuntu}} to the Harddrive would hang during loading of the usb-storage module. Looking at the logs, I received the famed "Maybe the USB cable is bad?" error message.<br />
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Using the Alternate CD, was able to install. At the installer's boot screen, F6 and enter a boot parameter of "debian-installer/probe/usb=false" (don't use quotes). Once you're in the text mode installation and have hit your first set of questions, press {{key|Alt}}{{key|F2}} to enter the BusyBox console, then find and delete (rm) "usb-storage.ko" from {{path|/lib/modules/2.6.*/}} Then {{key|Alt}}{{key|F1}} to return to the install, and answer questions as normal. The install process should work fine from here on out, and booting into your fresh installation should go without a hitch.<br />
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Saturday, May 26, 2007<br />
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I used the {{Ubuntu 7.04}} CD. I booted the live CD and clicked the install icon on the Gnome Desktop. It installed without problem. I have 256 meg Ram.<br />
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June 7, 2007<br />
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The Motorola WN825G WiFi cardbus card works. I use ndiswrapper with the Windows driver from Motorola and wifi-radar to connect to encrypted wifi.<br />
To get the card working :<br />
1) Boot Ubuntu<br />
2) Log in into the user account<br />
3) Insert the card : the green led ligts<br />
4) run wifi-radar<br />
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September 25, 2007<br />
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My X21 does not have a cd drive, connected a cd-rom drive via usb (used a standard IDE external cage). Booted off the Ubuntu disc without any problems, and began installation. Due to the speed of the laptop, installation took significantly longer then usual.<br />
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October 26, 2007<br />
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installation problem with PCI Interrupt <br />
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Boot hangs with the last dmesg as<br />
ACPI : PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ11<br />
ACPI : PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11<br />
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The machine is IBM Thinkpad X21. <br />
Tried boot options:<br />
acpi=off, noapic, nolapic, etc. but didn't work. <br />
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The machine works fine with Windows XP, so it shouldn't be hardware problem. <br />
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The machine used to work fine with 6.06LT, but after I install 7.04, it hangs afterwards. 7.10 doesn't help either. <br />
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Would appreciate if anyone can help.<br />
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After another day investigation. <br />
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I tried redhat 9, 8, 7.3, 7.2, and then finally successfully boot up the system with redhat 7<br />
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During redhat 9, 8, and 7.3/7.2 installation, they all showed and hanged:<br />
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PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.1<br />
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0a.0<br />
Redundant entry in serial PCI_table. <br />
Please send the output of <br />
lspci -vv, this message (11c1, 045C, 8086, 2205) and <br />
the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board to serial-PCI-info@lists,sourceforge.net<br />
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After I boot up with redhat 7, lspci command showed output<br />
00:0a.0 as Ethernet Controller, INTEL 82557 (Ethernet Pro 100) rev.0c<br />
00:0a.1 as Serial Controller, Lucent Microelectronics unknow device 045c (rev 01)<br />
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I tried to boot up the system with Ubuntu 6.06LT with PCI3 (ethernet/modem combo card) disabled, but the kernel still hanged as before. <br />
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I remember that this syndrome happened after I boot up my working 6.06LT, then after a kernel update, the system never boot up again thereafter.<br />
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I wonder if recent versions of kernel won't support the combo card anymore. Is there anyway to work around the problem? <br />
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Thanks in advance for any advice.</div>Hwl