https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Danken 2026-05-25T10:47:15Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.31.12 https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_R40&diff=17060 2005-08-24T00:39:09Z

<p>Danken: </p> <hr /> <div>Since I upgraded my system from FC1 to FC4 (if this is the correct term), I suffer from plenty of problems. Sobbing about them in private would not help, but maybe sharing them could.<br /> Here is how I configured my system, my successes and my failures. Some of the stuff here is not too strongly connected to ThinkPad, but I hope it helps.<br /> Please let me know if you can do better.<br /> <br /> ==Wireless (WiFi)==<br /> After installing up-to-date RPMs from [http://atrpms.net/dist/fc4/ipw2100/ ATrpms], my previously-defined wlan0 started working nicely.<br /> rpm -Uvh ipw2100-1.1.0-32.rhfc4.at.i386.rpm \<br /> ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.at.noarch.rpm \ <br /> ipw2100-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-1.1.0-32.rhfc4.at.i686.rpm<br /> I failed when I tried to play with [http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Kismet] or anything else that needs raw monitoring of the channel.<br /> <br /> ==NTFS==<br /> A Windows partition comes with the machine, and in order to access it, you should install a proper kernel module from [http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora4.html linux-ntfs]<br /> rpm -Uvh kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-2.1.22-0.rr.7.4.i686.rpm<br /> <br /> ==modem==<br /> Total failure thusfar. Doubly painful since the Smart Link slmdm-2.7.10.tar.gz driver worked nicely with FC1's 2.4.x kernel.<br /> <br /> ==ACPI==<br /> '''Plain horror'''. Could it be that FC4 lacks any support for going to sleep nicely (to say nothing about proper hibernation) that FC1 had? I hope I am missing something huge here.<br /> <br /> To enable the nice blue {{key|Fn}} keys, add<br /> echo enable,0xffff &gt; /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey<br /> to your /etc/rc.local .<br /> After this, the system will be kind enough to read your /etc/acpi/events/ directory and act as the files therein tell it. See [[How_to_configure_acpid]] for more details. Note that the scripts there are not perfect and needs tweaking that I did not perform (yet?); for example, they do not unload the WiFi module on suspend.<br /> <br /> ==yum==<br /> Rather simple. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo (and any other repository you are using) to reflect your favorite mirror and run<br /> yum check-update<br /> to see which of your RPMs has rotten. Is there a simple way for yum to tell me WHAT have changed in the updated RPMs (such as diffing my current --change-log with the new one)?<br /> <br /> ==up2date==<br /> It has nice a icon, and it worked in FC1 when I told it to use yum as its &quot;transport&quot;. Total failure in FC4.<br /> <br /> ==S-Video==<br /> Total failure.<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:R40]]</div>

Danken