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Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:30:55Z

Feffemannen: /* Installing Debian/Sarge */

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 1 Gb RAM
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

Extra packaged I installed:
* acpid
* alsa
* ipw2200-source
* module-assistant
* laptop-mode-tools (spins down your hd when on battery)
* hibernate

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).
I had to put the snd_intel8x0m modules into /etc/hotplug/blacklist so that hotplug wouldn't load this faulty (?) module on boot. Otherwise the installation was straight forward.

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. Coming up...

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==Special keys==
I didn't bother with those. Volume, light, bluetooth and backlight works fine out of the box. The others I don't wotn (I especially don't want the standy button (Fn-F4) to work since Ctrl-F4 means switching to worskpace 4 and I'm using that a lot (and my Ctrl on my desktop computer is where the Fn key is on the thinkpad)).

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:30:38Z

Feffemannen: /* Hibernation */

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 1 Gb RAM
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

Extra packaged I installed:
* acpid
* alsa
* ipw2200-source
* module-assistant
* laptop-mode-tools (spins down your hd when on battery)

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).
I had to put the snd_intel8x0m modules into /etc/hotplug/blacklist so that hotplug wouldn't load this faulty (?) module on boot. Otherwise the installation was straight forward.

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. Coming up...

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==Special keys==
I didn't bother with those. Volume, light, bluetooth and backlight works fine out of the box. The others I don't wotn (I especially don't want the standy button (Fn-F4) to work since Ctrl-F4 means switching to worskpace 4 and I'm using that a lot (and my Ctrl on my desktop computer is where the Fn key is on the thinkpad)).

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:28:02Z

Feffemannen:

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 1 Gb RAM
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

Extra packaged I installed:
* acpid
* alsa
* ipw2200-source
* module-assistant
* laptop-mode-tools (spins down your hd when on battery)

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).
I had to put the snd_intel8x0m modules into /etc/hotplug/blacklist so that hotplug wouldn't load this faulty (?) module on boot. Otherwise the installation was straight forward.

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==Special keys==
I didn't bother with those. Volume, light, bluetooth and backlight works fine out of the box. The others I don't wotn (I especially don't want the standy button (Fn-F4) to work since Ctrl-F4 means switching to worskpace 4 and I'm using that a lot (and my Ctrl on my desktop computer is where the Fn key is on the thinkpad)).

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:15:11Z

Feffemannen: /* My specs */

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 1 Gb RAM
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

Extra packaged I installed:
* acpid
* alsa
* ipw2200-source
* module-assistant

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).
I had to put the snd_intel8x0m modules into /etc/hotplug/blacklist so that hotplug wouldn't load this faulty (?) module on boot. Otherwise the installation was straight forward.

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==Special keys==
I didn't bother with those. Volume, light, bluetooth and backlight works fine out of the box.

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:14:43Z

Feffemannen:

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

Extra packaged I installed:
* acpid
* alsa
* ipw2200-source
* module-assistant

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).
I had to put the snd_intel8x0m modules into /etc/hotplug/blacklist so that hotplug wouldn't load this faulty (?) module on boot. Otherwise the installation was straight forward.

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==Special keys==
I didn't bother with those. Volume, light, bluetooth and backlight works fine out of the box.

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:06:34Z

Feffemannen: /* Bluetooth */

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working I had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==My own notes==

* Done:
- Install Kernel 2.6.10 (enabled pccard)
- apt-get install acpid
- apt-get install alsa
- add snd_intel8x0m to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
- compiled cpufreq govenor ondemand
- Change IRQ in BIOS. 11->Auto
- Compile yenta_socket module ls
- Install hsfmodem drivers (paid for)
- Gaim
- MozPlugger
- Printers with CUPS

* ToDo:
- Install fglrx driver
- FireWall
- Hibernate
- Bluetooth

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:06:10Z

Feffemannen:

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working a had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==My own notes==

* Done:
- Install Kernel 2.6.10 (enabled pccard)
- apt-get install acpid
- apt-get install alsa
- add snd_intel8x0m to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
- compiled cpufreq govenor ondemand
- Change IRQ in BIOS. 11->Auto
- Compile yenta_socket module ls
- Install hsfmodem drivers (paid for)
- Gaim
- MozPlugger
- Printers with CUPS

* ToDo:
- Install fglrx driver
- FireWall
- Hibernate
- Bluetooth

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T10:05:33Z

Feffemannen:

==My specs==
I've just got a Thinkpad T42 (2373-9VG) with the following specs:

* Pentium M745 (1.8GHz, 2Mb L2 Cahce)
* 80GB 5400rpm HDD
* 14.1 SXGA+(1400x1050) TFT LCD
* 64MB ATI Radeon 9600
* 24x24x24x/8x CD-RW/DVD
* Intel 802.11b/g wireless(MPCI)
* Bluetooth/Modem(CDC)
* 1Gb Ethernet(LOM)

==Preparing==
First I had to start up Windows and check that everything worked out well. It did. Next step was to go into BIOS and disable the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewhere.

Then I repartitioned the disc (one small windows partition, one swap and one ext3 partition).

==Installing Debian/Sarge==

Boot up the Debian Installion CD. Remeber to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.
Everything worked just fine. Remeber to choose the radeon display-driver for X though.

==2.6.10 kernel==
Then a downloaded the source for the 2.6.10 kernel. I stoled a 2.6.9-config file and did a "make oldconfig". [http://configfile This is] what came out
that process. I didn't use any patch, it's simply not needed with kernel 2.6.10.

==Display drivers==

I choosed to stick with the opensource driver radeon since there were reports on problems with hibernation with the driver [[Fglrx | ATI drivers]]. However it should be pointed out thet the opensource driver is much slower, so if that bugs you...

==Modem==
Some people have reported that the [http://www.smlink.com/content.aspx?id=132 SmartLink] drivers (sl-modem) worked. However, for me they did not (I did get AT-commands to work, but not the dialing out). Instead the [http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/downloads-installer.php Linuxant] driver (hsfmodem) worked just fine (the 14.4kbps is free but you'll have to pay a rather small amount for the full version of the driver).

==Bluetooth==
I did a "apt-get install bluez-utils" and, voila, the bluetooth worked. I use the multisync package to sync my SonyEricsson T610 with Evolution and it works great.

To get gprs working a had to do a bit of work. I followed the instructions on [http://nix.fulhack.nu/z600/ | this page] and got it working in the end.

==Wireless==
Not yet tested but shouldn't be a problem with the [Ipw2200 | ipw2200] driver.

==Hibernation==
I decided to don't care about standy-mode (when do you really use that?) since the ACPI standby-mode needs quite a lot of battry-power. However I wanted the hiberantion mode. After doing a "apt-get install hibernate" I made a script for hibernation

==Cpufreq speedstepping==
The cpufreq speedstepping in the 2.6.10 kernel works fine (wothout any patch). However it boots up with the "userspace cpufreq-govenor" which means that it does not take command over the setting the cpu frequincies itself. A "echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor" on boot fixes this (a made a small init.d-script for this). You can check the current cpu-freq with "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq" and you can tweak the ondemand govenor by setting the values in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand (I haven't though).

==My own notes==

* Done:
- Install Kernel 2.6.10 (enabled pccard)
- apt-get install acpid
- apt-get install alsa
- add snd_intel8x0m to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
- compiled cpufreq govenor ondemand
- Change IRQ in BIOS. 11->Auto
- Compile yenta_socket module ls
- Install hsfmodem drivers (paid for)
- Gaim
- MozPlugger
- Printers with CUPS

* ToDo:
- Install fglrx driver
- FireWall
- Hibernate
- Bluetooth

[[Category:T42p]] [[Category:Debian]]

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T42

2005-02-27T09:55:20Z

Feffemannen:

Talk:Installing Debian Sid (September 2004) on a ThinkPad T42p

2005-02-25T23:17:00Z

Feffemannen: sl-modem drivers

Not sure if the sl-modem drivers work. At least they didn't work with my T42. The [http://www.linuxant.com Linuxant] hsfmodem driver works perfectly though.