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BIOS Upgrade

2006-01-15T17:45:54Z

67.87.7.65: /* Downloads */

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This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
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==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsu1a62.txt update the BIOS first, then immediately update the Control Program]. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
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| {{240X}}
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| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
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|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
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|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
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|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
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|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
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|-
| {{390E}}
|
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| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
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|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
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|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
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|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
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|-
| {{560Z}}
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|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
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|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
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|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
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|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
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|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
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|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
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|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
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|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
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|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
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|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.06]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.24]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.24]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.04]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.03]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 2.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 2.00]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]
|-
| {{Z60m}}, {{Z60t}}
|
|
|
|
|

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

BIOS Upgrade

2006-01-15T17:42:34Z

67.87.7.65: /* Downloads */

{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;white-space:nowrap;" | __TOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
|}
----
==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsu1a62.txt update the BIOS first, then immediately update the Control Program]. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
|
|-
| {{240X}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
|
|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
|
|-
| {{390E}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
|
|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
|
|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
|
|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{560Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
|
|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.06]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.24]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.24]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.04]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.03]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 2.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 2.00]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

BIOS Upgrade

2006-01-15T17:41:31Z

67.87.7.65: /* Downloads */

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|style="vertical-align:top" |
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
|}
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==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsu1a62.txt update the BIOS first, then immediately update the Control Program]. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
|
|-
| {{240X}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
|
|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
|
|-
| {{390E}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
|
|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
|
|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
|
|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{560Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
|
|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.04]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.24]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.24]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.04]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.03]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 2.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 2.00]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

BIOS Upgrade

2006-01-15T17:39:44Z

67.87.7.65: /* Downloads */

{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;white-space:nowrap;" | __TOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
|}
----
==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsu1a62.txt update the BIOS first, then immediately update the Control Program]. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
|
|-
| {{240X}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
|
|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
|
|-
| {{390E}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
|
|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
|
|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
|
|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{560Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
|
|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.04]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.20]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.20]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.22]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.22]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.24]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.24]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.04]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.03]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 2.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 2.00]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

BIOS Upgrade

2006-01-15T17:37:56Z

67.87.7.65: /* Downloads */

{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;white-space:nowrap;" | __TOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.
{{NOTE|
In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 Thinkpad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}
|}
----
==Before You Begin==
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM. However there are work arounds.

{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.

'''Proceed at your own risk!'''

It is also '''important''' to understand that all newer thinkpads have 2 seperate firmwares, the BIOS and the Control Program. A specific version of the Control Program will only work with specific versions of the BIOS. If you go through the readme's on the IBM site they'll clearly state that '''you must''' [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsu1a62.txt update the BIOS first, then immediately update the Control Program]. Otherwise you risk turning your thinkpad into a very nice paper weight.}}

==BIOS Upgrade Paths==

For every firmware (either BIOS or Control Program) update on the IBM site there are two different firmware update programs provided.

===The Diskette Updater===

This installer appears to be a 16bit dos program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy control. The USB Floppy Drive to the new Thinkpads doesn't count.

===The Non Diskette Updater===
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Use at your own risk.}}

This installer appears to be a 32bit windows exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that the .exe is really a wrapper license program arround windows .cab files (this information is in [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these files directly. Run the following:

:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}

You will get 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:

:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}

If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable. Again, proceed at your own risk.

==Downloads==

{{NOTE|Firefox or Konqueror users should disable the '''Use IBM Download Director''' option when downloading files.}}

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| rowspan="3"| '''Models'''
| colspan="2"| '''Non-Diskette'''
| colspan="3"| '''Diskette'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
| colspan="2"| '''BIOS'''
| rowspan="2"| '''Embedded Controller Program'''
|-
| '''Windows'''
| '''Linux'''
|-
| {{240}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.18]
|
|
|-
| {{240X}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-42DLNW 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{365C}}, {{365CD}}, {{365CS}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 2.0.14]
|
|
|-
| {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60567 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.14]
|
|
|-
| {{380XD}}, {{385XD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{380Z}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=DSHY-3XWNVG 1.08]
|
|
|-
| {{390}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-427MCG 5.62]
|
|
|-
| {{390E}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46AKPY 1.55]
|
|
|-
| {{390X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4C5UP9 0.55]
|
|
|-
| {{560}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.20]
|
|
|-
| {{560E}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60522 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{560X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3QYK7L 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{560Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3YTKKV 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{570}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47JS5Z 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{570E}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HT3RD 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HA2BF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{600}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3VRJPK 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645 selected models, 2646)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-46HLKQ 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{600E}} (2645: 55x, 56x, 57x, 58x, A5x, A6x, Bxx [except for BAU], JJ1, JJ2, RRA)
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-43DNQ5 1.15]
|
|
|-
| {{600X}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4HVUYL 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4FYS2U 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{750}}, {{750CS}}, {{755C}}, {{755CS}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.43]
|
|
|-
| {{755CE}}, {{755CSE}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CDV}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-60440 1.44]
|
|
|-
| {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760L}}, {{760LD}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 1.30]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (XGA), {{760ED}} (XGA), {{760XD}}, {{765D}}, {{765L}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{760E}} (SVGA), {{760ED}} (SVGA), {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760XL}}
|
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-59734 2.13]
|
|
|-
| {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-3P2MCB 1.34]
|
|
|-
| {{770X}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1DSHY-42QLVU 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{770Z}}
|
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-47F3VA 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A20m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Z 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTQ 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A20p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4MNN8Y 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4JWNTR 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2165)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A21e}} (2628)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLU 1.13]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KLV 1.13]
|
|
|-
| {{A21m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A21p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Celeron
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNQKX 1.07]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4UNRRF 1.07]
|
|
|-
| {{A22e}} Pentium
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQKLK 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4XQL7B 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM4 1.09]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJMXK 1.09]
|
|
|-
| {{A22m}} (2628-Sxx)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXS2T 1.05]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VXRG4 1.05]
|
|
|-
| {{A22p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4Q2KM3 1.11]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PJN8X 1.11]
|
|
|-
| {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39863 1.18]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40846 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39861 1.18]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-40847 1.08]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1G*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42654 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45771 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42660 1.12]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45900 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45770 1.05]
|-
| {{A31}}, {{A31p}} (Bios 1N*)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44450 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45662 1.05]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44451 1.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45898 1.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45663 1.05]
|-
| {{G40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50672 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50673 1.19]
|
|
|-
| {{G41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58127 1.10]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-58129 1.10]
|
|
|-
| {{R30}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40216 1.38]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40217 1.38]
|
|
|-
| {{R31}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41378 3.11]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-41535 3.11]
|
|
|-
| {{R32}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43571 2.15]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-43572 2.15]
|
|
|-
| {{R40}} (2681, 2682, 2683, 2896, 2898, 2899)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46055 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46061 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40}} (2722, 2723, 2724, 2897)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50320 1.29]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46143 1.14]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50321 1.29]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-46144 1.14]
|-
| {{R40e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50302 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50344 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50301 1.36]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50343 1.04]
|-
| {{R50}}, {{R50p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R50e}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55000 2.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55001 2.04]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (1829, 1830, 1831, 1836)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{R51}} (2883, 2887, 2888, 2889, 2894, 2895)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55003 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54996 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-55004 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-54997 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1870)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59221 1.20]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59184 1.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59220 1.20]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59183 1.04]
|-
| {{R52}} (1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T20}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4MNN8X 1.22]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4JWNJC 1.22]
|
|
|-
| {{T21}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4Q2KM5 1.16]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4PJN8Y 1.16]
|
|
|-
| {{T22}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWPPU 1.12]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4VWP54 1.12]
|
|
|-
| {{T23}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39366 1.18]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40022 1.06a]
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39362 1.18]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-40021 1.06a]
|-
| {{T30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42694 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42711 1.07]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42720 2.09]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-45745 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42725 1.07]
|-
| {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50275 3.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50279 3.04]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50273 3.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50277 3.04]
|-
| {{T43}} (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876)
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59379 1.19]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59439 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59380 1.19]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59440 1.03]
|-
| {{T43}} (2668, 2669, 2678, 2679, 2686, 2687), {{T43p}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59096 1.23]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59120 1.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59097 1.23]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59121 1.03]
|-
| {{TransNote}}
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDSMK 1.02]
|
| [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4UDRRF 1.02]
|
|
|-
| {{X20}}, {{X21}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BM 2.25]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4VQNTP 1.36]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4P52BL 2.25]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4PBMCT 1.36]
|-
| {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39672 1.32]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39806 1.30]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39665 1.32]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-39808 1.30]
|-
| {{X30}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44135 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44152 1.06]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44131 1.08]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-44149 1.06]
|-
| {{X31}}, {{X32}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50298 3.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53480 1.08]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-50308 3.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53479 1.08]
|-
| {{X40}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53881 2.03]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53882 1.60]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53883 2.03]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-53885 1.60]
|-
| {{X41}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59206 2.02]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59208 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59205 2.02]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-59207 1.00]
|-
| {{X41T}}
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60193 2.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60191 1.00]
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60194 2.00]
|
| [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-60189 1.00]

|}

If you were able to create the boot floppy per the Diskette update method, and you have a Floppy with your Thinkpad, the update should be simple.

==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==

The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.

Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.

Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:

<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
<pre><nowiki>
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.

In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with
a bootable dos diskette for w98
</nowiki></pre>
</blockquote>

But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].

Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}

Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].

===Creating a Floppy Image===
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:

:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}

You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).

You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.

===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.

The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.

It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:

:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}

Note: You don't strictly need the last {{path|bootfloppy.img}}, however some versions of mkisofs get confused about why you would want to create an iso with no contents, and thus won't let you. You don't actually care about the contents of the CD, you only care that the <tt>-b <boot image></tt> is applied to the CD. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.

You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.

To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:

===Does work:===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||
*Lukas KrÃ¤henbÃ¼hl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu>
*Ernesto HernÃ¡ndez-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve >
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net>
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.05 / Embedded Controller 1.03)
*Carsten SÃ¶hrens <casoe at gmx dot de> (Version: Bios 1.24 / Embedded Controller 1.04)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com>
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://hella.breitkopf.usr.ffb.org/en/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||
*Grzegorz KuÅ›nierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx>
|}

===Does not work:===
{|
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''
|}

Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!

==Updating with Network Boot Image==

BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.

This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.

Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.

This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.

==Check List==

The following is important to remember:
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS

When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.

Embedded Security Subsystem

2006-01-15T17:22:07Z

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;" | [[Image:ESS.jpg|IBM Embedded Security Subsystem]] __NOTOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== The Embedded Security Subsystem ===
The Embedded Security Subsystem is nothing but a chip installed on the Thinkpads mainboard that can take care of certain security related tasks conforming to the TCPA standard. It was first introduced among the T23 models and is now under the name Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 an integral part of most of the modern Thinkpads. The functions of the chip are bound to three main groups:
* public key functions
* trusted boot functions
* initialization and management functions

The purpose of the whole thing is to keep the user's sensitive data out of range from software based attacks (like viruses, internet attacks etc.). One way the chip offers to achieve this is by providing storage for keys along with the neccessary functions to handle them within itself, so that a i.e. a private key never has to leave the chip (can't be seen by any piece of software). Besides this there are more complex topics covered by the functionality of the chip. If you want to find out more about it you can find good documents on the [http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/ IBM Research TCPA resources page].</div>
|}

==Trusted or Treacherous?==

TC - Trusted Computing - will be the biggest change of the information landscape since decades. Besides positive features like a more secure hardware storage for cryptographic keys, an analysis of the proposed TCG-standards shows some problematic properties. <br />
As ThinkPads of recent generations following the ThinkPad {{T23}} ([[Embedded Security Subsystem#Models featuring this Technology|see the complete list of models]]) are equipped with this disputed TCG-/TCPA-Technology, it can be interesting, which promises of the TCG are fulfilled inside your ThinkPad and which parts of the TCG-specifications still seem to be a privacy issue for every user of digital devices like a MP3-player or a ThinkPad - so please read [[TCPA/TCG - Trusted or Treacherous|this article]] for more details.

==Linux Support==
Two linux drivers are available, a [[tpm|classical one]] and a [[tpmdd|newer one]].
Coverage of functionality of the first is unknown so far, the second is part of a bigger project aiming to provide a usable security framework.

David Stafford (one of the developers of the tpm code at IBM) on March 10, 2005 sent me the most recent version of the tpm-kml code. With his permission, I quote his email:

"I am attaching our latest driver and library.
This version is in the process of kernel mailing list review, and
will hopefully be accepted into the official kernel. It works
much better across various 2.6 kernels. Note that this builds
three modules tpm, tpm_atmel, and tpm_nsc. You modprobe the
tpm_atmel (for all current shipping atmel based systems), or
tpm_nsc (for the coming national based systems).

Also note that there is a conflict with the snd-intel8x0
kernel module (they each try to grab the LPC bus). You can
either: load the tpm modules first (such as in initrd or
rc.sysinit, before sound), or recompile the snd-intel8x0, turning
off the MIDI and JOYSTICK support. The latest 2.6.11 version
of snd-intel8x0 also reportedly fixes things."

Compiling this library was easy. Compiling the driver on my 2.6.8-686 (debian testing) laptop failed. But the library works with the driver I compiled from the tpm-2.0 package IBM made available on its pages (see the links below).

Gijs

The T43 requires a patch posted to the LKML by Kylene Jo Hall: [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111884603309146&w=2 LKML posting]. An updated patch for linux 2.6.12 is available [http://shamrock.dyndns.org/~ln/linux/tpm_2.6.12.diff here].

The atmel driver comes with 2.6.12.

==Versions & Features==
=== Embedded Security Chip ===
IBM introduced it's TCPA/TCG features with some of the [[:Category:T23|T23]] models. The earlier of them didn't yet have the Embedded Security Subsystem, but a kind of pre 1.0 version called the Embedded Security Chip. This chip had the following capabilities:
*Data communications authentication and encryption
*Storage of encrypted passwords

=== Embedded Security Subsystem (1.0) ===
The original Embedded Security Subsystem (in IBM documents there is no use of the additive version-number 1.0) claims to be compliant with TCG specs, but apparently did not fully implement any specific TCG spec.

The Embedded Security Subsystem has the following features:
*hardware key storage
*multi-factor authentication
*local file encryption
*enhances VPN security

=== Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 ===
The Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 conforms to the TCG TPM 1.1b specification, with a TPM manufactured by either Atmel or National Semiconductor.

The Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 has the following features:
*hardware key storage
*multi-factor authentication
*local file encryption
*enhances VPN security
*TCG compliant

==Models featuring this Technology==
===IBM Embedded Security Chip===
*ThinkPad {{T23}}
===IBM Embedded Security Subsystem===
*ThinkPad {{A30p}}
*ThinkPad {{R31}}
*ThinkPad {{T23}}, {{T30}}, {{T41}}
*ThinkPad {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}

===IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0===
*ThinkPad {{R32}}, {{R40}}, {{R50}}, {{R50p}}, {{R51}}, {{R52}}
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*ThinkPad {{X30}}, {{X31}}, {{X32}}, {{X40}}, {{X41}}, {{X41T}}, {{X60}}, {{X60s}}
*ThinkPad {{Z60m}}, {{Z60t}}
[[Category:Glossary]]

==TCPA/TCG clean models==
*all models produced before 2000
*all i Series models
*ThinkPad [[:Category:240X|240X]]
*ThinkPad [[:Category:A20m|A20m]], [[:Category:A20p|A20p]], [[:Category:A21e|A21e]], [[:Category:A21m|A21m]], [[:Category:A21p|A21p]], [[:Category:A22e|A22e]], [[:Category:A22m|A22m]], [[:Category:A22p|A22p]], [[:Category:A30|A30]]
*ThinkPad [[:Category:T20|T20]], [[:Category:T21|T21]]
*ThinkPad [[:Category:X20|X20]], [[:Category:X21|X21]], [[:Category:X22|X22]]
*ThinkPad [[:Category:TransNote|TransNote]]

==External Sources==
*[http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvantagetech/security.html IBMs ThinkVantage<sup>TM</sup> Technologies Embedded Security Subsystem page]
*[http://www.pc.ibm.com/presentations/us/thinkvantage/56/index.html?shortcut=ess& IBMs ThinkVantage<sup>TM</sup> Technologies Flash presentation - Embedded Security Subsystem]
*[http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/ IBM Research TCPA resources page]
*[http://www.prosec.rub.de/trusted_grub.html Trusted Grub]

Talk:Ordering Recovery CDs

2005-12-11T04:00:55Z

67.87.7.65:

Recovery CDs can only be created once, after that you get a message that you already created the CDs and that the Microsoft license only allows one copy to be made.

Anyone know how to reset this, so another copy can be created?

Madwifi

2005-11-25T17:02:59Z

67.87.7.65: /* Related links */

== Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi ==
Linux driver for 802.11a/b/g universal NIC cards - Cardbus, PCI, or miniPCI - using Atheros chip sets.

The following adapters sold by IBM use the Atheros chips:
* [[IBM Dual-Band 11a/b Wi-Fi Wireless Mini PCI Adapter]]
* [[IBM 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]]
* [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]]
* [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II]]
* [[ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter]]
* IBM 802.11a Wireless LAN Cardbus Adapter
* IBM 11 a/b/g Wireless Cardbus Adapter

=== Project Homepage ===
http://www.madwifi.org (old page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi)

=== Packages ===
*daily cvs snapshots: http://madwifi.otaku42.de
*{{Debian}} Packages: http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi
*{{Debian}} Packages: http://www.users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/madwiki.txt
*{{Fedora}} Packages(1): http://rpm.livna.org
*{{Fedora}} Packages(2): http://www.atrpms.net/name/madwifi/

=== CVS ===
:{{cmduser|cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi}}

=== Installation ===

*Make sure that you've got sysctl support and the net/radio enabled (wireless extensions) in your kernel. Install the driver with make & make install
* further more you like to install the wireless tools from [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html wireless tools]. Make sure the versions fit together by
:{{cmduser|iwconfig --version}}

Setting up [[wpa_supplicant]] with wpa-psk.

=== Status ===
in development, usable

=== OpenSource HAL ===
The "official" driver consists of an opensource wrapper with binary HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). This HAL is not a binary firmware like with the Intel Wireless chips, but a piece of code that needs to runs in the Linux kernel.
The vendors reasoning behind this is, that since the Atheros chip could be tuned to any frequency, and hence interfere with systems operating in those frequencies, that we simply need to accept this binary module.<br>
Obviously this binary HAL is unacceptable to the Linux kernel developers, and the Atheros driver in this state will never become part of the official kernel.<br>
Some OpenBSD developers facing the same issue, reverse engineered the binary HAL and have produced an OpenSource version. Hopefully a driver based on this might be included with the Linux kernel at some point in time, and picked up by the mainstream distributions.

=== Related links ===
* [http://www.madwifi.org/wiki MadWiFi Wiki]
* [http://team.vantronix.net/ar5k/ OpenSource Atheros HAL]
* [http://www.ath-driver.org/ OpenSource Atheros driver for Linux]

[[Category:Drivers]]

KThinkBat

2005-11-24T15:02:17Z

67.87.7.65: and one more

==Description==

[https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/wiki/bin/view/Werkstatt/KThinkBat KThinkBat] is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the Windows Application "Battery Maximizer" which is included with ThinkPads.

Homepage: https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/wiki/bin/view/Werkstatt/KThinkBat

Author: Tobias Roeser

Latest Version: 0.1.4

==Screenshot==
{{NOTE|Screenshots removed. Do not link to external images, especially when those images are on a self-signed ssl enabled webserver causing warning messages}}

Offline Mode: You see how much power left and how much is consumed at the moment.

Online Mode: You see the loading-power. (0W at the moment because ThinkPads load only if you have less the 95%)

==Installation==

KThinkBat uses the autotools. For a standard installation use

./configure

make

su -c 'make install'

==Gentoo==
You can use the the ebuild from this [https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/svn/portage-overlay-lefou/trunk/ portage overlay].

==Download==

* [http://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/download/kthinkbat/ Download directory]
* [https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/svn/portage-overlay-lefou/trunk/app-laptop/kthinkbat/ KThinkPad ebuilds]

[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:Gentoo]]

KThinkBat

2005-11-24T15:00:50Z

67.87.7.65: removed screenshot link to external self-signed SSL webserver

==Description==

[https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/wiki/bin/view/Werkstatt/KThinkBat KThinkBat] is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the Windows Application "Battery Maximizer" which is included with ThinkPads.

Homepage: https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/wiki/bin/view/Werkstatt/KThinkBat

Author: Tobias Roeser

Latest Version: 0.1.4

==Screenshot==

Offline Mode: You see how much power left and how much is consumed at the moment.

https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/download/kthinkbat/screenshot_1.png

Online Mode: You see the loading-power. (0W at the moment because ThinkPads load only if you have less the 95%)

==Installation==

KThinkBat uses the autotools. For a standard installation use

./configure

make

su -c 'make install'

==Gentoo==
You can use the the ebuild from this [https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/svn/portage-overlay-lefou/trunk/ portage overlay].

==Download==

* [http://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/download/kthinkbat/ Download directory]
* [https://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/svn/portage-overlay-lefou/trunk/app-laptop/kthinkbat/ KThinkPad ebuilds]

[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:Gentoo]]

Waproamd

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__TOC__
waproamd is a roaming daemon for wireless IEEE 802.11 NICs supporting the Linux wireless extensions. It is intended to configure the WEP keys according to the networks found.

=== Features ===
*support for multiple devices
*use of native ifup/ifdown scripts
*supports syslog
*WEP and AES key management

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.0pointer.de/lennart/projects/waproamd

=== Packages ===
*[[:Category:Debian | Debian]] packages: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=waproamd
*[[:Category:SUSE | SUSE]] packages: http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=383

=== Subversion ===
Is supposed to reside [https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/waproamd/ here], but the link doesn't work currently.

=== Status ===
*obsolete (see homepage for alternative)

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[[ifplugd]]
*[http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/oss/wlandetect/ wlandetect project] <tt>(an alternative implementation)</tt>
*[http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ Linux WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant]

[[Category:Tools]]

Ifplugd

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__TOC__
ifplugd is a Linux daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled.

=== Features ===
*support for multiple ethernets
*use of native ifup/ifdown scripts
*supports ethtool, mii-diag and mii-tool APIs or can run without cable detection
*supports syslog
*optionally ignores short unplugged periods

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
*Homepage: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/

=== Packages ===
*[[:Category:Debian | Debian]] packages: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=ifplugd
*[[:Category:SUSE | SUSE]] packages: http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=359
*[[:Category:Gentoo | Gentoo]] packages: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ifplugd

=== Subversion ===
Is supposed to reside [https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/ifplugd/ here], but the link doesn't work currently.

=== Status ===
*stable and active

=== Interesting links related to this project ===

*[[waproamd]]

[[Category:Tools]]

TrackPoint

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|style="vertical-align:top;padding-right:20px;width:10px;" | [[Image:Trackpoint.jpg|IBM TrackPoint]] __NOTOC__
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== IBM TrackPoint ===
The TrackPoint is IBMs name for the stick that sits between the g, h an b keys of the keyboard. It is used as a pointing device and hence as an alternative to an external mouse or a touchpad. What sets it apart from devices found in notebooks of other manufacturers is that it has no moving parts. It works using a solid state strain gauge. Its tap-to-click feature, which means that you can tap the stick to do a left click instead of using the left mouse button, is also handy.
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|}

==Linux Support==
The TrackPoint uses the PS/2 interface so it is supported by the standard psaux mouse input driver included in the Linux kernel.

Note that the "IMPS/2" driver of the X server is incompatible with most TrackPoints. You'll have to use "PS/2" in the protocol option of your input section if your mouse pointer always jumps to the lower left corner of the screen. This seems to be solved with the T4x generation of ThinkPads.

However, to make use of advanced features like configuring sensitivity or enabling "tap-to-click" there are different solutions available depending on the kernel you are using.
* For 2.4 type kernels it is recommended to use the [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/pers/tp4utils/ Linux Trackpoint utilities].
* 2.6.14rc1 and newer has TrackPoint support as part of the regular PS/2 Mouse support
* For older 2.6 kernels, you can get the [[Patch to enable advanced trackpoint configuration]].

If you are using GNOME with the 2.6 kernel TrackPoint support, you might want to use [http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/configure-trackpoint.html configure-trackpoint] as a graphical frontend to it.

*Have a look at [[How to configure the TrackPoint]].

==Models featuring this Technology==
'''TrackPoint II'''
*{{350}}, {{350C}}, {{355}}, {{355Cs}}, {{355C}}
*{{360}}, {{360Cs}}, {{360C}}, {{360P}}, {{360CSE}}, {{360CE}}, {{360PE}}
*{{370C}}
*{{500}}, {{510Cs}}
*{{720}}, {{720C}}
*{{700}}, {{700C}}
*{{750}}, {{750Cs}}, {{750C}}, {{750P}}
*{{755Cs}}, {{755C}}
'''TrackPoint III'''
*{{310}}, {{310D}}, {{310E}}, {{310ED}}
*{{345CS}}, {{345C}}
*{{365CS}}, {{365C}}, {{365CSD}}, {{365CD}}, {{365E}}, {{365ED}}, {{365X}}, {{365XD}}
*{{380}}, {{380D}}, {{380E}}, {{380ED}}, {{380XD}}, {{385D}}, {{385ED}}, {{385XD}}
*{{560}}, {{560E}}, {{560X}}
*{{701C}}, {{701CS}}
*{{755CSE}}, {{755CE}}, {{755CX}}, {{755CV}}, {{755CD}}, {{755CDV}}
*{{760L}}, {{760LD}}, {{760C}}, {{760CD}}, {{760EL}}, {{760ELD}}, {{760E}}, {{760ED}}, {{760XL}}, {{760XD}}, {{765L}}, {{765D}}
*{{820}}, {{850}}, {{860}}
'''TrackPoint IV'''
*{{240}}, {{240X}}
*{{380Z}}, {{390}}, {{390E}}, {{390X}}
*{{560Z}}, {{570}}, {{570E}}
*{{600}}, {{600E}}, {{600X}}
*{{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}, {{770X}}, {{770Z}}
*{{I Series}}
*{{A Series}}
*{{G Series}}
*{{R Series}}
*{{S30}}, {{S31}}
*{{T Series}}
*{{X Series}}
*{{TransNote}}

==External Sources==
*[http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-51536 IBMs page on configuring the third TrackPoint button under Linux]

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Hardware Specifications

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==Hardware specs and information about the specific Thinkpad Models.==
* Choose a model name to to get a list of all currently available information related to this Model.
* Choose a type-and-model number to get the specs of that specific model.
* Compare the [[Thinkpad series]] (R, T, X, G), get an overview of the [[ThinkPad History]] or learn about the name [[ThinkPad]].
* '''Lenovo ThinkPads'''
** For current Lenovo ThinkPad G, R, T and X series models look for the official specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tabook.pdf tabook.pdf]
** For withdrawn Lenovo ThinkPads, look at [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/ltwbook.pdf ltwbook.pdf]
* '''Withdrawn IBM ThinkPads'''
** For A, G, T and X series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tawbook.pdf tawbook.pdf]
** For R series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/trwbook.pdf trwbook.pdf]
** For i series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tiwbook.pdf tiwbook.pdf]
** For 200, 300, 500, 600 and 700 series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/twbook.pdf twbook.pdf]<br>
** Or try searching the IBM announcements letters [http://www.ibm.com/news/usalet/ here].

==Available Models==
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|- style="text-align:left;"
!Numbered!!A series!!G series!!R series!!S series!!T series!!X series!!others
|- style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"
|
'''[[:Category:390X | ThinkPad 390X]]'''
*[[2626-L0U]]

'''[[:Category:600X | ThinkPad 600X]]'''

'''[[:Category:700 | ThinkPad 700]]'''

'''[[:Category:760ED | ThinkPad 760ED]]'''

'''[[:Category:760XD | ThinkPad 760XD]]'''

'''[[:Category:770E | ThinkPad 770E]]'''
*[[9548-510]]
*[[9548-51U]]
*[[9548-52U]]

'''[[:Category:770X | ThinkPad 770X]]'''
*[[9549-7AO]]
'''[[:Category:770Z | ThinkPad 770Z]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:A20m | ThinkPad A20m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A20p | ThinkPad A20p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21e | ThinkPad A21e]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21m | ThinkPad A21m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21p | ThinkPad A21p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22e | ThinkPad A22e]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22m | ThinkPad A22m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22p | ThinkPad A22p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A30 | ThinkPad A30]]'''

'''[[:Category:A30p | ThinkPad A30p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A31 | ThinkPad A31]]'''

'''[[:Category:A31p | ThinkPad A31p]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:G40 | ThinkPad G40]]'''

'''[[:Category:G41 | ThinkPad G41]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:R30 | ThinkPad R30]]'''

'''[[:Category:R31 | ThinkPad R31]]'''

'''[[:Category:R32 | ThinkPad R32]]'''

'''[[:Category:R40 | ThinkPad R40]]'''
*[[2722-9BM]]
*[[2722-DG1]]

'''[[:Category:R40e | ThinkPad R40e]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50 | ThinkPad R50]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50p | ThinkPad R50p]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50e | ThinkPad R50e]]'''

'''[[:Category:R51 | ThinkPad R51]]'''
*[[1829-K6G]]
*[[1830-DG4]]

'''[[:Category:R52 | ThinkPad R52]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:S30|ThinkPad S30]]'''

'''[[:Category:S31|ThinkPad S31]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:T20|ThinkPad T20]]'''
*[[2647-44G]]

'''[[:Category:T21|ThinkPad T21]]'''
*[[2647-97G]]

'''[[:Category:T22|ThinkPad T22]]'''

'''[[:Category:T23 | ThinkPad T23]]'''
*[[2647-9RG]]
*[[2647-7G1]]

'''[[:Category:T30 | ThinkPad T30]]'''
*[[2366-52U]]
*[[2366-FBG]]
*[[2366-JBG]]
*[[2366-R7G]]

'''[[:Category:T40 | ThinkPad T40]]'''

'''[[:Category:T40p | ThinkPad T40p]]'''
*[[2372-G1U]]

'''[[:Category:T41 | ThinkPad T41]]'''

'''[[:Category:T41p | ThinkPad T41p]]'''
*[[2373-315]]
*[[2373-GEG]]
*[[2373-GGG]]
*[[2373-GHG]]

'''[[:Category:T42 | ThinkPad T42]]'''
*[[2373-6ZG]]
*[[2373-9XU]]
*[[2373-F1G]]
*[[2378-FVU]]
*[[2373-FWG]]
*[[2373-WGK]]
*[[2378-RSU]]
*[[2379-DXU]]
*[[2373-M1G]]

'''[[:Category:T42p | ThinkPad T42p]]'''
*[[2373-HTG]]
*[[2373-W6M]]
*[[2373-Y4M]]

'''[[:Category:T43 | Thinkpad T43]]'''
*[[2668-C2U]]

'''[[:Category:T43p | Thinkpad T43p]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:X20 | ThinkPad X20]]'''

'''[[:Category:X21 | ThinkPad X21]]'''
*[[2662-66U]]

'''[[:Category:X22 | ThinkPad X22]]'''
*[[2662-95U]]
*[[2662-9BU]]

'''[[:Category:X23 | ThinkPad X23]]'''

'''[[:Category:X24 | ThinkPad X24]]'''

'''[[:Category:X30 | ThinkPad X30]]'''

'''[[:Category:X31 | ThinkPad X31]]'''

'''[[:Category:X40 | ThinkPad X40]]'''

'''[[:Category:X41 | ThinkPad X41]]'''

'''[[:Category:X41 Tablet | ThinkPad X41 Tablet]]'''
||
'''[[:Template:I_Series | I Series]]'''
'''[[:Category:PC110 | PC110]]'''
*[[PC110]]
'''[[:Category:TransNote|TransNote]]'''
*[[2675-61G]]
|}

[[Category:Models]]
Category:TransNote|TransNote

Hardware Specifications

2005-08-12T01:07:19Z

67.87.7.65: /* Hardware specs and information about the specific Thinkpad Models. */

==Hardware specs and information about the specific Thinkpad Models.==
* Choose a model name to to get a list of all currently available information related to this Model.
* Choose a type-and-model number to get the specs of that specific model.
* Compare the [[Thinkpad series]] (R, T, X, G), get an overview of the [[ThinkPad History]] or learn about the name [[ThinkPad]].
* '''Lenovo ThinkPads'''
** For current Lenovo ThinkPad G, R, T and X series models look for the official specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tabook.pdf tabook.pdf]
** For withdrawn Lenovo ThinkPads, look at [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/ltwbook.pdf]
* '''Withdrawn IBM ThinkPads'''
** For A, G, T and X series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tawbook.pdf tawbook.pdf]
** For R series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/trwbook.pdf trwbook.pdf]
** For i series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/tiwbook.pdf tiwbook.pdf]
** For 200, 300, 500, 600 and 700 series models look for the official IBM specs listed in [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitute/psref/twbook.pdf twbook.pdf]<br>
** Or try searching the IBM announcements letters [http://www.ibm.com/news/usalet/ here].

==Available Models==
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1"
|- style="text-align:left;"
!Numbered!!A series!!G series!!R series!!S series!!T series!!X series!!others
|- style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;"
|
'''[[:Category:390X | ThinkPad 390X]]'''
*[[2626-L0U]]

'''[[:Category:600X | ThinkPad 600X]]'''

'''[[:Category:700 | ThinkPad 700]]'''

'''[[:Category:760ED | ThinkPad 760ED]]'''

'''[[:Category:760XD | ThinkPad 760XD]]'''

'''[[:Category:770E | ThinkPad 770E]]'''
*[[9548-510]]
*[[9548-51U]]
*[[9548-52U]]

'''[[:Category:770X | ThinkPad 770X]]'''
*[[9549-7AO]]
'''[[:Category:770Z | ThinkPad 770Z]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:A20m | ThinkPad A20m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A20p | ThinkPad A20p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21e | ThinkPad A21e]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21m | ThinkPad A21m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A21p | ThinkPad A21p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22e | ThinkPad A22e]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22m | ThinkPad A22m]]'''

'''[[:Category:A22p | ThinkPad A22p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A30 | ThinkPad A30]]'''

'''[[:Category:A30p | ThinkPad A30p]]'''

'''[[:Category:A31 | ThinkPad A31]]'''

'''[[:Category:A31p | ThinkPad A31p]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:G40 | ThinkPad G40]]'''

'''[[:Category:G41 | ThinkPad G41]]'''

||
'''[[:Category:R30 | ThinkPad R30]]'''

'''[[:Category:R31 | ThinkPad R31]]'''

'''[[:Category:R32 | ThinkPad R32]]'''

'''[[:Category:R40 | ThinkPad R40]]'''
*[[2722-9BM]]
*[[2722-DG1]]

'''[[:Category:R40e | ThinkPad R40e]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50 | ThinkPad R50]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50p | ThinkPad R50p]]'''

'''[[:Category:R50e | ThinkPad R50e]]'''

'''[[:Category:R51 | ThinkPad R51]]'''
*[[1829-K6G]]
*[[1830-DG4]]

'''[[:Category:R52 | ThinkPad R52]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:S30|ThinkPad S30]]'''

'''[[:Category:S31|ThinkPad S31]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:T20|ThinkPad T20]]'''
*[[2647-44G]]

'''[[:Category:T21|ThinkPad T21]]'''
*[[2647-97G]]

'''[[:Category:T22|ThinkPad T22]]'''

'''[[:Category:T23 | ThinkPad T23]]'''
*[[2647-9RG]]
*[[2647-7G1]]

'''[[:Category:T30 | ThinkPad T30]]'''
*[[2366-52U]]
*[[2366-FBG]]
*[[2366-JBG]]
*[[2366-R7G]]

'''[[:Category:T40 | ThinkPad T40]]'''

'''[[:Category:T40p | ThinkPad T40p]]'''
*[[2372-G1U]]

'''[[:Category:T41 | ThinkPad T41]]'''

'''[[:Category:T41p | ThinkPad T41p]]'''
*[[2373-315]]
*[[2373-GEG]]
*[[2373-GGG]]
*[[2373-GHG]]

'''[[:Category:T42 | ThinkPad T42]]'''
*[[2373-6ZG]]
*[[2373-9XU]]
*[[2373-F1G]]
*[[2378-FVU]]
*[[2373-FWG]]
*[[2373-WGK]]
*[[2378-RSU]]
*[[2379-DXU]]
*[[2373-M1G]]

'''[[:Category:T42p | ThinkPad T42p]]'''
*[[2373-HTG]]
*[[2373-W6M]]
*[[2373-Y4M]]

'''[[:Category:T43 | Thinkpad T43]]'''
*[[2668-C2U]]

'''[[:Category:T43p | Thinkpad T43p]]'''
||
'''[[:Category:X20 | ThinkPad X20]]'''

'''[[:Category:X21 | ThinkPad X21]]'''
*[[2662-66U]]

'''[[:Category:X22 | ThinkPad X22]]'''
*[[2662-95U]]
*[[2662-9BU]]

'''[[:Category:X23 | ThinkPad X23]]'''

'''[[:Category:X24 | ThinkPad X24]]'''

'''[[:Category:X30 | ThinkPad X30]]'''

'''[[:Category:X31 | ThinkPad X31]]'''

'''[[:Category:X40 | ThinkPad X40]]'''

'''[[:Category:X41 | ThinkPad X41]]'''

'''[[:Category:X41 Tablet | ThinkPad X41 Tablet]]'''
||
'''[[:Template:I_Series | I Series]]'''
'''[[:Category:PC110 | PC110]]'''
*[[PC110]]
'''[[:Category:TransNote|TransNote]]'''
*[[2675-61G]]
|}

[[Category:Models]]
Category:TransNote|TransNote

Category:T42

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|style="vertical-align:top" |
[[image:ThinkPadT40.jpg|ThinkPad T42]]
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== ThinkPad T42 ===
This pages gives an overview of all ThinkPad T42 related topics.
==== Features ====
* On of the following processors:
** [[Intel Pentium M (Banias)]] 1.5 GHz
** [[Intel Pentium M (Dothan)]] 1.6, 1.7 or 1.8 GHz
* One of the following graphics controllers:
** [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7500]] with 32MB
** [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9000]] with 64MB
** [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9600]] with 64MB
* One of the following displays:
** 14.1" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution (XGA)
** 14.1" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution (SXGA+)
** 15.0" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution (XGA)
** 15.0" TFT display with 1400x1050 resolution (SXGA+)
* 256, 512MB or 1GB memory standard, 2GB maximum
* 30, 40, 60 or 80GB HDD
* AD1981B AC'97 Audio controller
* [[Ethernet Controllers|Intel 10/100/1000 Ethernet]]
* [[UltraBay|UltraBay Slim]] with one of the following:
** DVD-ROM
** DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo
** DVD-RW
* CDC slot with one of the following:
** [[IBM Integrated 56K Modem (MDC-2)]]
** [[IBM Integrated Bluetooth III with 56K Modem (BMDC-2)]]
* MiniPCI slot with one of the following:
** none (open)
** [[IBM 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]]
** [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter]]
** [[IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter II]]
** [[Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter]]
** [[Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter]]
* [[Embedded Security Subsystem|IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0]]
* [[Active Protection System|IBM Active Protection System]]
* [[Integrated Fingerprint Reader]] on selected systems
</div>
|}
* [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/13n6243.pdf ThinkPad T40/p, T41/p, T42/p - Hardware Maintenance Manual (April 2004)] (5,391,719 Bytes)

[[Category:Models]]

3Com 10/100 Ethernet Mini-PCI Adapter with 56K Modem

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=== 3Com 10/100 Ethernet Mini-PCI Adapter with 56K Modem ===
This is a Mini-PCI combination Ethernet and Modem Adapter that is installed in a Mini-PCI slot.

=== Ethernet Features ===
* Chipset: 3Com 3c556b
* Speeds: 10/100
=== Modem Features ===
* Chipset: 3Com
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|}
=== IBM Partnumbers ===
IBM Option PN: 09N9774<br>
IBM FRU PN: 22P6444, 06P3829, 00N8117, 22P6753, 22P7594

=== Also known (in IBM literature) as.... ===
* 10/100 EtherJet Mini-PCI Adapter with 56K Modem (3Com)
* 10/100 EtherJet Mini-PCI Adapter with 56K Modem by 3Com
* 3Com Ethernet/Modem Mini PCI combo card
* Mini PCI combo card (3Com)
=== Firmware ===
A 'Boot Agent' (PXE boot) firmware update for this adapter is available from IBM.
The updated version is 4.32 and is available [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-4WDU4F here].

=== Linux Ethernet driver ===
This card will work with the standard '3c59x' Linux driver as part of any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel<br>
This card doesn't seem to work with recent 2.6 kernels when using acpi. See [[Problem with 3Com 10/100 Ethernet card not being recognized|problem page]] for detailed info.<br>

=== Linux Modem driver ===
No Linux Modem driver exists for this adapter

=== ThinkPad's this card may be found in ===
* {{A20m}}, {{A20p}}, {{A21e}}, {{A21m}}
* {{A30}}, {{A30p}}, {{A31}}, {{A31p}}
* {{T20}}, {{T21}}, {{T22}}
* {{X20}}, {{X21}}, {{X22}}
* {{TransNote}}

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Enhanced DVD Multi-Burner Plus

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=== Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus===
This is an DVD Writer for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM
** DVD-ROM
* Write capabilities
** CD-R (24x)
** CD-RW (10x)
** DVD-R (8x)
** DVD-RW (4x)
** DVD-RAM
** DVD+R (8x)
** DVD+RW (4x)

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 73P3312

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
* ThinkPad {{R50}}, {{R50p}}, {{R51}}, {{R52}}

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Enhanced CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive V

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=== Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive ===
This is an CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM (24x)
** DVD-ROM (8x)
* Write capabilities
** CD-R (24x)
** CD-RW (24x)

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 73P3275

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{R50}}, {{R50p}}, {{R51}}, {{R52}}

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Devices

2005-08-11T02:41:54Z

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Devices==
* UltraBay 1.44MB FDD
* UltraBay 2.88MB FDD
* UltraBay Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)
* UltraBay IBM Wireless Modem for ARDIS
* UltraBay TV Tuner
* UltraBay HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Battery
* UltraBay PCMCIA Cartridge

==UltraBay II Devices==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Devices==

==UltraSlimBay Devices==

==UltraBay 2000 Devices==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* [[UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive]]
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive]]
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner]]
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus]]
* [[UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter]]
* [[UltraBay Slim Battery]]

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==
* [[UltraBay Enhanced CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive]]
* [[UltraBay Enhanced DVD Multi-Burner Plus]]

Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive ===
This is an CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM (24x)
** DVD-ROM (8x)
* Write capabilities
** CD-R (24x)
** CD-RW (24x)

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 73P3288

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Slim DVD-ROM Drive

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim DVD-ROM Drive ===
This is an DVD Reader for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM
** DVD-ROM (8x)

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 73P3270

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Devices

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Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner

2005-08-11T02:24:52Z

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__NOTOC__
{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner ===
This is an DVD Writer for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM
** DVD-ROM
* Write capabilities
** CD-R
** CD-RW
** DVD-R
** DVD-RW
** DVD-RAM

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: ?

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus===
This is an DVD Writer for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM
** DVD-ROM
* Write capabilities
** CD-R (24x)
** CD-RW (10x)
** DVD-R (2x)
** DVD-RW (2x)
** DVD-RAM
** DVD+R (2.4x)
** DVD+RW (2.4x)

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 73P3342

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Devices

2005-08-11T02:20:12Z

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Devices==
* UltraBay 1.44MB FDD
* UltraBay 2.88MB FDD
* UltraBay Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)
* UltraBay IBM Wireless Modem for ARDIS
* UltraBay TV Tuner
* UltraBay HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Battery
* UltraBay PCMCIA Cartridge

==UltraBay II Devices==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Devices==

==UltraSlimBay Devices==

==UltraBay 2000 Devices==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner]]
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus]]
* [[UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter]]
* [[UltraBay Slim Battery]]

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==

Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi-Burner ===
This is an DVD Writer for the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Read capabilities
** CD-ROM
** DVD-ROM
* Write capabilities
** CD-R
** CD-RW
** DVD-R
** DVD-RW

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: ?

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Slim Battery

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim Battery ===
This is a battery that slides into a supported Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* 10.8V Lithium-Ion
* Up to 8 hours of battery life on select systems in combination with main battery

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 08K8190

=== Linux Support ===
Second battery is correctly detected by either the APM or ACPI subsystem

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}

=== NOT supported with ===
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Slim PATA HDD Adapter

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay Slim HDD Adapter ===
This is an adapter to connect an additional HDD to the Ultrabay Slim

=== Features ===
* Takes any T40 series or simular 9.5mm thick, 2.5" HDD

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
Order PN: 62P4554

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is /dev/hdc

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43}}, {{T43p}}
*[[UltraBase X4]], [[ThinkPad X4 Dock]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Devices

2005-08-11T01:44:36Z

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Devices==
* UltraBay 1.44MB FDD
* UltraBay 2.88MB FDD
* UltraBay Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)
* UltraBay IBM Wireless Modem for ARDIS
* UltraBay TV Tuner
* UltraBay HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Battery
* UltraBay PCMCIA Cartridge

==UltraBay II Devices==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Devices==

==UltraSlimBay Devices==

==UltraBay 2000 Devices==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive
* [[UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner]]
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus
* [[UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter]]
* [[UltraBay Slim Battery]]

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==

UltraBay II HDD Adapter

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__NOTOC__
{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Ultrabay II HDD Adapter Tray ===
This is an adapter to connect an additional HDD to the Ultrabay II

=== Features ===
* Takes any 700 series HDD's that are contained in a 770-style "sardine-tin" or a 760-style push-on HDD.
* Can be used with any 2.5" HDD, if you gut a push-on HDD for the adapter.

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
11J8941

=== Linux Support ===
If connected at boot time, the drive is hdc. Hotplugging between this & another non-IDE device works fine (the kernel doesn't realise it's disconnected), between this and DVD the kernel will recognise the new drive, but panic.

=== Also known (in IBM literature) as.... ===

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}, {{770X}}, {{770Z}}
*[[SelectaDock III]]

[[Category:Components]]

UltraBay II Floppy Drive

2005-08-11T01:35:40Z

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__NOTOC__
{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== UltraBay II Floppy drive ===
This is the 3.5" floppy drive for the UltraBay II slot.

The drive allows to be to be connected to a proprietary external FDD connector port, freeing the UltraBay for use of another device at the same time. This requires a special cable (similar interface to a 760ED external floppy? The floppy end connector is the same as the ThinkPad end connector on a 760ED).

=== Features ===
* 3.5" 1.44Mb
* additional connector for external attachment

</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== IBM Partnumbers ===
12J0425, cable 12J0432

=== Linux Support ===
In case you have two floppy drives, or want to attach the floppy drive externally after boot, the floppy drivers hardware autodetection cannot be relied upon.<br />
You can force the floppy driver to use both of them by adding the following line to {{path|/etc/modprobe.conf}}:
options floppy floppy=1,4,cmos
This gives you support for either external floppy or ultrabay floppy or both if you plug them in after boot time.

If at boot there is a floppy drive attached to the external port, this is fd0 and the ultrabay is fd1. Otherwise (no floppies attached at boot/floppy in ultrabay at boot), then ultrabay is fd0 and external port is fd1. An ACPI-aware floppy driver would have the ablility to stop the devices swapping around, but such a thing doesn't exist.

=== Also known (in IBM literature) as.... ===

=== Supported with ===
*ThinkPad {{770}}, {{770E}}, {{770ED}}, {{770X}}, {{770Z}}
*[[SelectaDock III]]

[[Category:Components]]

Ultrabay Devices

2005-08-11T01:29:05Z

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Devices==
* UltraBay 1.44MB FDD
* UltraBay 2.88MB FDD
* UltraBay Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)
* UltraBay IBM Wireless Modem for ARDIS
* UltraBay TV Tuner
* UltraBay HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Battery
* UltraBay PCMCIA Cartridge

==UltraBay II Devices==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Devices==

==UltraSlimBay Devices==

==UltraBay 2000 Devices==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus
* UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Slim Battery

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==

Ultrabay Devices

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Devices==

==UltraBay II Devices==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Devices==

==UltraSlimBay Devices==

==UltraBay 2000 Devices==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus
* UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Slim Battery

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==

Ultrabay Devices

2005-08-11T01:25:50Z

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==UltraBay Adapters==
*[[UltraBay II optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Enhanced optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Slim optical drive adapter]]
*[[Ultrabay Plus Device Carrier]]

==UltraBay Drives==

==UltraBay II Drives==
*[[UltraBay II Floppy Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II DVD Drive]]
*[[UltraBay II HDD adapter tray]]

==UltraBay FX Drives==

==UltraSlimBay Drives==

==UltraBay 2000 Drives==

==UltraBay Plus Devices==

==UltraBay Slim Devices==
* UltraBay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD-ROM Drive
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner
* UltraBay Slim DVD Multi-Burner Plus
* UltraBay Slim HDD Adapter
* UltraBay Slim Battery

==UltraBay Enhanced Drives==

ATI Mobility FireGL 9000

2005-08-11T01:09:18Z

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{| width="100%"
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 ===
This is a ATI video adapter

=== Features ===
* Chipset: ATI RV250 (M9)
* PCI ID: 1002:4c66
* AGP 4X
* 64MB DDR-SDRAM video memory
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux driver - OpenSource ===
This adapter is supported by recent versions of the 'radeon' driver as found in X.Org and XFree86.

External (VGA, DVI, SVideo) ??

=== Linux driver - Proprietary ===
ATI has [[fglrx|a proprietary driver]] with 3D acceleration on their support website [http://support.ati.com/ support.ati.com].

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{T40p}}

[[Category:Components]]

Category:770X

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{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
[[image:ThinkPad770z.jpg|ThinkPad 770X]]
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== ThinkPad 770X ===
This pages gives an overview of all ThinkPad 770X related topics.
==== Features ====
* [[Intel Mobile Pentium II]] 300 CPU
* [[Trident Cyber9397DVD]] with 4 or 8MB
** 14.1" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
** 13.7" TFT display with 1280x1024 resolution
* 64 or 128MB memory standard
* 8.1GB HDD
* [[CS4239]]/[[CS4610]] Audio controller
* [[MWave MDSP3780|MWave Modem]]
* IrDA 1.1
* [[UltraBay|UltraBay II]] with one of the following:
** [[UltraBay II Floppy Drive|1.44MB FDD]]
** CD-ROM drive
** DVD-ROM drive

==== IBM Links ====
* [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=LWIK-3YEM7Z User's Guide]
* [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=PFAN-3TSMGJ Hardware Maintenance Manual]
</div>
|}

[[Category:Models]]

Hard disk drives

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IBM Travelstar harddisk drives are rebranded Hitachi Travelstar drives.

==IBM/Hitachi harddisk naming scheme==
Hitachi harddisk names (on modern drives) are a set of letters and numbers that in fact tell a lot about the specifications of the drive. The designation follows the pattern:

{| style="text-align:center;"
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | H
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | T
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | S
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 72
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 60
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 60
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | M
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 9
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | AT
| style="background-color:#eeeeee;" | 00
|-
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | H
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [t]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [?]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [rr]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [??]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [ss]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [?]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [h]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [ii]
| style="background-color:#dddddd;" | [??]
|}

*the H is for Hitachi
*[t] is a single letter designating the drive type, like
** T = Travelstar
** D = Deskstar
** E = Endurastar
*following is a mystical single letter.
*[rr] is the first two digits of speed in RPM, i.e. 54 for 5400 RPM.
*next two are strange, they match the marketing/branding name for the drives, like 7K60 would be HTS7260... . So they might just separate drive generations or something like that. But they also match the size of the biggest available drive in that series.
*[ss] is two digits giving the size in GB. 100gig drives have a 10 here.
*following is a letter that is probably placed as a riddle for anyone who wants to interpret the naming scheme.
*[h] is the drives height in full millimeters, first digit, i.e. 9 for 9.5mm .
*[ii] is a two digit code for the drives interface, like this:
**AT = IDE/ATA
**SA = IDE/SATA
**CE = IDE/ZIF
**CF = Compact Flash
**L3 = SCSI/Ultra320
**LF = FC-AL
*two numerical digits are following, might be some kind of revision, might be something else.

==Drives found in ThinkPads==
=== 60GB, 7200 RPM ===
Model: Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00<br />
IBM FRU/PartNr.: 13N6807, 13N6799<br />
Hitachi PartNr: 08K0849

This drive can be found in the following ThinkPads:
* {{T41p}}, {{T42p}}, {{T43p}}

[[Category:Components]]

Intel 830MP

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{| width="100%"
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<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">
=== Intel 830MP ===
This is a Intel Northbridge

=== Features ===
* Intel 830MP chipset
* 82830MP Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH-M)
* 82801CAM ICH3-M I/O Controller Hub (ATA-100/66 EIDE, PCI bus, Low Pin Count (LPC) interface, USB [Bluetooth])
* Intel 82802AC Firmware Hub / PCI bus 2.2 32-bit, 33MHz
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux support ===
This chipset is supported by recent 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{A30}}, {{A30p}}
* {{T23}}
* {{X22}}, {{X23}}, {{X24}}

[[Category:Components]]

Chipsets

2005-08-10T02:53:59Z

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==General information==
A variety of chipsets have been use from ALi, ATi and Intel.

==Chipsets found in ThinkPads==
*ALi
**ALi M1521
**ALi M1531
**ALi M1621
**ALi M1632
*ATi
** [[ATI Radeon IGP 330M]]
*Intel
**Intel 430MX
**Intel 430TX
**Intel 440BX
**Intel 440DX
**Intel 440MX
**Intel 440ZXM
**Intel 830MG
**[[Intel 830MP]]
**[[Intel 845MP]]
**Intel 852GM
**Intel 852GME
**Intel 855GM
**Intel 855GME
**Intel 855MP
**[[Intel 855PM]]
**Intel 910GML
**Intel 915GM
**Intel 915PM

Intel 845MP

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{| width="100%"
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=== Intel 845MP ===
This is a Intel Northbridge

=== Features ===
* Intel 845MP chipset
* 82845MP Memory Controller Hub (MCH-M)
* 82801CAM ICH3-M I/O Controller Hub (ATA-100 EIDE, PCI bus, ethernet MAC, Low Pin Count (LPC) interface, USB [Bluetooth], Firmware Hub)
* PCI bus 2.2 32-bit, 33MHz
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

=== Linux support ===
This chipset is supported by recent 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{A31}}, {{A31p}}
* {{R32}}
* {{R40}}
* {{T30}}

[[Category:Components]]

Chipsets

2005-08-10T02:45:39Z

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==General information==
A variety of chipsets have been use from ALi, ATi and Intel.

==Chipsets found in ThinkPads==
*ALi
**ALi M1521
**ALi M1531
**ALi M1621
**ALi M1632
*ATi
** [[ATI Radeon IGP 330M]]
*Intel
**Intel 430MX
**Intel 430TX
**Intel 440BX
**Intel 440DX
**Intel 440MX
**Intel 440ZXM
**Intel 830MG
**Intel 830MP
**[[Intel 845MP]]
**Intel 852GM
**Intel 852GME
**Intel 855GM
**Intel 855GME
**Intel 855MP
**[[Intel 855PM]]
**Intel 910GML
**Intel 915GM
**Intel 915PM

Intel 855PM

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=== Intel 855PM ===
This is a Intel Northbridge

=== Features ===
* Intel 855PM chipset
* 82855PM Memory Controller Hub (MCH-M)
* 82801DBM ICH4-M I/O Controller Hub (ATA-100 EIDE, PCI bus, ethernet MAC, Low Pin Count [LPC] interface, USB, [Bluetooth])
* PCI bus 2.2 32-bit, 33MHz
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=== Linux support ===
This chipset is supported by recent 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{R40}}
* {{R50}}, {{R50p}}, {{R51}}
* {{T40}}, {{T40p}}, {{T41}}, {{T41p}}, {{T42}}, {{T42p}}
* {{X31}}, {{X32}}

[[Category:Components]]

Chipsets

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==General information==
A variety of chipsets have been use from ALi, ATi and Intel.

==Chipsets found in ThinkPads==
*ALi
**ALi M1521
**ALi M1531
**ALi M1621
**ALi M1632
*ATi
** [[ATI Radeon IGP 330M]]
*Intel
**Intel 430MX
**Intel 430TX
**Intel 440BX
**Intel 440DX
**Intel 440MX
**Intel 440ZXM
**Intel 830MG
**Intel 830MP
**Intel 845MP
**Intel 852GM
**Intel 852GME
**Intel 855GM
**Intel 855GME
**Intel 855MP
**[[Intel 855PM]]
**Intel 910GML
**Intel 915GM
**Intel 915PM

ATI Radeon IGP 330M

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=== ATI Radeon IGP 330M ===
This is a ATI North Bridge with integrated video adapter

=== Features ===
* Video Chipset: ATI RS200
* Video PCI ID: 1002:4337
* Video Memory: 16MB DDR-SDRAM
* Southbridge: ALi M1535+
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=== Linux driver - OpenSource ===
This adapter is supported by recent versions of the 'radeon' driver as found in X.Org and XFree86.

In kernel >= 2.6.10 works switching via /proc/acpi/ibm/video (module ibm_acpi required).

=== Linux driver - Proprietary ===
This chip is not supported by the proprietary ATI driver

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{R40e}}

[[Category:Components]]

ATI Radeon IGP 330M

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=== ATI Radeon IGP 330M ===
This is a ATI North Bridge with integrated video adapter

=== Features ===
* Chipset: ATI RS200
* PCI ID: 1002:4337
* Integrated in ATI Northbridge
* 16MB DDR-SDRAM video memory
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=== Linux driver - OpenSource ===
This adapter is supported by recent versions of the 'radeon' driver as found in X.Org and XFree86.

In kernel >= 2.6.10 works switching via /proc/acpi/ibm/video (module ibm_acpi required).

=== Linux driver - Proprietary ===
This chip is not supported by the proprietary ATI driver

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{R40e}}

[[Category:Components]]

Chipsets

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==General information==
A variety of chipsets have been use from ALi, ATi and Intel.

==Chipsets found in ThinkPads==
*ALi
**ALi M1521
**ALi M1531
**ALi M1621
**ALi M1632
*ATi
** ATI Radeon IGP 330M
*Intel
**Intel 430MX
**Intel 430TX
**Intel 440BX
**Intel 440DX
**Intel 440MX
**Intel 440ZXM
**Intel 830MG
**Intel 830MP
**Intel 845MP
**Intel 852GM
**Intel 852GME
**Intel 855GM
**Intel 855GME
**Intel 855MP
**[[Intel 855PM]]
**Intel 910GML
**Intel 915GM
**Intel 915PM

Chipsets

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==General information==
A variety of chipsets have been use from ALi, ATi and Intel.

==Chipsets found in ThinkPads==
*ALi
**ALi M1521
**ALi M1531
**ALi M1621
**ALi M1632
*ATi
** ATI Radeon IGP 330M
*Intel
**Intel 430MX
**Intel 430TX
**Intel 440BX
**Intel 440DX
**Intel 440MX
**Intel 440ZXM
**Intel 830MG
**Intel 830MP
**Intel 845MP
**Intel 852GM
**Intel 852GME
**Intel 855GM
**Intel 855GME
**Intel 855MP
**Intel 855PM
**Intel 910GML
**Intel 915GM
**Intel 915PM

Components and AddOns

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Read about components builtin your Thinkpad and how to make use of them:

*[[Audio Subsystems]]
*[[Bluetooth Adapters]]
*[[Chipsets]]
*[[Ethernet Controllers]]
*[[Harddisk Drives]]
*[[Input Devices]]
*[[IrDA]]
*[[Modem Devices]]
*[[Processors]]
*[[UltraBay Devices]]
*[[Video Controllers]]
*[[Wireless Network Adapters]]

ES1946

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=== ES1946 ===
This is a ESS Technology Audio controller

=== Features ===
* Chipset: Solo1
* Interface: PCI
* PCI ID: 125d:1969
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=== Linux OSS driver ===
This sound chip is supported by the esssolo1 kernel module.

Recording doesn't seem to work on at least two Thinkpad240 models with OSS drivers, neither from Line in, nor from internal/external Microphone.

=== Linux ALSA driver ===
This sound chip is supported by the snd-es1938 kernel module.

=== ThinkPad's this chip may be found in ===
* {{240}}
* {{390E}}, {{390X}}
* {{I1412}}, {{I1452}}, {{I1472}}
* {{i1420}}, {{I1421}}, {{I1422}}, {{I1441}}, {{I1442}}, {{I1460}}, {{I1480}}, {{I1482}}, {{I1483}}, {{I1492}}
* {{I1512}}, {{I1540}}, {{I1541}}, {{I1542}}, {{I1552}}, {{I1560}}, {{I1562}}, {{I1592}}
[[Category:Components]]