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Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-28T19:10:21Z

Scott: /* Wireless Networking */

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs].

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:

<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
</pre>

<b>Important:</b> Disabling the AT-RPMs repository by default (using enabled=0) in the above configuration is important. Some repositories have been known not to play well together. See [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=94861 this post] on the [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ Fedora Forms] for more information. However, AT-RPMs does provide a packaged version of the Intel wireless drivers and firmware that we'll use to set up wireless networking later. As long as AT-RPMs is disabled by default, Yum won't install software from their repository unless we explicitly tell it to do so.

== ATi Video Driver (fglrx) ==

Installing the fglrx driver is easy if you've enabled the Livna.org RPM repository as discribed earlier in this article. Unfortunately, the proprietary ATi driver currently does not support desktop effects or composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

To install the drivers, as root:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There are two things that need to be done to get the driver working. First, we must disable effects by adding these lines to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

<pre>
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
</pre>

Next, we need to add ATi's driver directory to dynamic linker (ld) search path and update the linker configuration:

<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# echo "/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf
[root@scottt60 ~]# ldconfig
</pre>

After ldconfig completes, restart X. You can check if you've completed your installation correctly by running fglrxinfo. Your output should look like this:

<pre>
[scott@scottt60 ~]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6174 (8.31.5)
</pre>

Congratulations, your video configuration is complete.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum --enablerepo=atrpms install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

=External Sources=
*This guide is listed at the [http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html TuxMobil Linux laptop and notebook installation survey (IBM/Lenovo)].

[[Category:Fedora]]

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-28T19:09:29Z

Scott: Updated mixing repos warning, specifially AT-RPMS

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs].

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:

<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
</pre>

<b>Important:</b> Disabling the AT-RPMs repository by default (using enabled=0) in the above configuration is important. Some repositories have been known not to play well together. See [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=94861 this post] on the [http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ Fedora Forms] for more information. However, AT-RPMs does provide a packaged version of the Intel wireless drivers and firmware that we'll use to set up wireless networking later. As long as AT-RPMs is disabled by default, Yum won't install software from their repository unless we explicitly tell it to do so.

== ATi Video Driver (fglrx) ==

Installing the fglrx driver is easy if you've enabled the Livna.org RPM repository as discribed earlier in this article. Unfortunately, the proprietary ATi driver currently does not support desktop effects or composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

To install the drivers, as root:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There are two things that need to be done to get the driver working. First, we must disable effects by adding these lines to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

<pre>
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
</pre>

Next, we need to add ATi's driver directory to dynamic linker (ld) search path and update the linker configuration:

<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# echo "/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf
[root@scottt60 ~]# ldconfig
</pre>

After ldconfig completes, restart X. You can check if you've completed your installation correctly by running fglrxinfo. Your output should look like this:

<pre>
[scott@scottt60 ~]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6174 (8.31.5)
</pre>

Congratulations, your video configuration is complete.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

=External Sources=
*This guide is listed at the [http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html TuxMobil Linux laptop and notebook installation survey (IBM/Lenovo)].

[[Category:Fedora]]

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-22T18:53:25Z

Scott: Removed note about ATi driver not working.

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.
* AFAIK livna does not support mixing its repository with other sources than Fedora Core and Fedora Extras, so try adding software just from one repo.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATi Video Driver (fglrx) ==

Installing the fglrx driver is easy if you've enabled the Livna.org RPM repository as discribed earlier in this article. Unfortunately, the proprietary ATi driver currently does not support desktop effects or composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

To install the drivers, as root:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There are two things that need to be done to get the driver working. First, we must disable effects by adding these lines to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

<pre>
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
</pre>

Next, we need to add ATi's driver directory to dynamic linker (ld) search path and update the linker configuration:

<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# echo "/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf
[root@scottt60 ~]# ldconfig
</pre>

After ldconfig completes, restart X. You can check if you've completed your installation correctly by running fglrxinfo. Your output should look like this:

<pre>
[scott@scottt60 ~]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6174 (8.31.5)
</pre>

Congratulations, your video configuration is complete.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

[[Category:Fedora]]

User:Scott

2006-11-22T18:49:37Z

Scott: /* My Thinkpad */

== My Thinkpad ==

My current Thinkpad is a Lenovo [[:Category:T60 | T60]] 2623-D7U running [[:Category:Fedora | Fedora Core 6]].

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-22T18:46:58Z

Scott: Whitespace cleanup.

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.
* AFAIK livna does not support mixing its repository with other sources than Fedora Core and Fedora Extras, so try adding software just from one repo.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATi Video Driver (fglrx) ==

Installing the fglrx driver is easy if you've enabled the Livna.org RPM repository as discribed earlier in this article. Unfortunately, the proprietary ATi driver currently does not support desktop effects or composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

To install the drivers, as root:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There are two things that need to be done to get the driver working. First, we must disable effects by adding these lines to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

<pre>
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
</pre>

Next, we need to add ATi's driver directory to dynamic linker (ld) search path and update the linker configuration:

<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# echo "/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf
[root@scottt60 ~]# ldconfig
</pre>

After ldconfig completes, restart X. You can check if you've completed your installation correctly by running fglrxinfo. Your output should look like this:

<pre>
[scott@scottt60 ~]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6174 (8.31.5)
</pre>

Congratulations, your video configuration is complete.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

[[Category:Fedora]]

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-22T18:43:04Z

Scott: Added fglrx configuration information.

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.
* AFAIK livna does not support mixing its repository with other sources than Fedora Core and Fedora Extras, so try adding software just from one repo.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATi Video Driver (fglrx) ==

Installing the fglrx driver is easy if you've enabled the Livna.org RPM repository as discribed earlier in this article. Unfortunately, the proprietary ATi driver currently does not support desktop effects or composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

To install the drivers, as root:
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx.i686 xorg-x11-drv-fglrx

While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There are two things that need to be done to get the driver working. First, we must disable effects by adding these lines to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

<pre>
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
</pre>

Next, we need to add ATi's driver directory to dynamic linker (ld) search path and update the linker configuration:

<pre>

[root@scottt60 ~]# echo "/usr/lib/ati-fglrx/" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ati-fglrx.conf
[root@scottt60 ~]# ldconfig

</pre>

After ldconfig completes, restart X. You can check if you've completed your installation correctly by running fglrxinfo. Your output should look like this:

<pre>
[scott@scottt60 ~]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6174 (8.31.5)
</pre>

Congratulations, your video configuration is complete.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

[[Category:Fedora]]

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:25:42Z

Scott: /* Setting Up Additional Repositories */

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in:
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:25:07Z

Scott: added chmod to ipw init script.

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, make it executable and add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

# chmod 750 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
# chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:19:37Z

Scott: Updated T60 version number.

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (2623). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installation instructions for the ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:18:55Z

Scott: Added link to FC6 / T60 install.

Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{T60}}.

==Distribution-specific instructions==

*{{Install|Ubuntu| 6.06 Flight 5|T60}}
*{{Install|Fedora| Core 6| T60}}
*{{Install|Fedora| Core 5| T60}}
*{{Install|Suse| 10.1| T60}}
* For Gentoo, there exists [[Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_T60p|installation instructions for T60p]], the sister model.

== Compatibility ==
* [http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/?tab=details&id=358 Thinkpad T60] page on [http://www.emperorlinux.com emperorlinux.com] (compatibility review and custom kernel)

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:17:01Z

Scott:

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

As of 11/06, most things are working well. There are still a few issues related to the proprietary ATi driver that still need to be ironed out. Stay tuned for updates.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-07T04:15:29Z

Scott:

* Note: this page is a work in progress

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* ATi OpenGL Direct Rendering
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-06T18:39:34Z

Scott: /* Works Out of the Box */

* Note: this page is a work in progress

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== Works Out of the Box ==

; Dual Cores (SMP processing)
: As of Kernel 2.6.18, used in Fedora Core 6, there is no loger a single cpu and smp kernel image. SMP is now configured on-the-fly. FC6's kernel will automatically discover the T60's dual core cpu and bring up CPU0 and CPU1.

; Wired Networking
: Kernel recognizes eth0 and correctly loads the e1000 driver.

; Video at 1400x1050
: Fedora does not ship the proprietary ATi driver, as a reult the VESA driver is used. Installation of the ATi fgrlx driver is described later in this article.

; Touchpad / Mouse

; Think-Light

; Sound
: The first-boot sound test fails to play the test sound. However, sound support is correctly configured and the snd-hda-intel driver is loaded at startup.

; Suspend to RAM
: Works out of the box under Gnome. Gnome power management intregrates with HAL (Linux's hardware abstraction layer) and DBUS, which correctly put this computer into a suspsend to RAM state and wake it up correctly.

== Requires Tweaking ==

* Wireless Networking (Requires ipw3945 driver)
* 3d
* MP3 / MP4A Playback
* Suspend to Disk / Hibernate

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

Before completing installation, it's best to get up to date by running yum update as root or by using the new graphical updater, Pup, that ships with Fedora Core 6. After all updates are installed, reboot before continuing the post-install tasks.

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [[yum]] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute: yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Fix your [[Grub]] configuration
# Reboot

On a minimal install, the only dependencies removed were gnome-session, compiz, gnome-volume-manager, and pcmciautils. Getting things back on track required:

# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils

After [Yum] completes, you will have to fix the boot loader or you will be unable to boot after a restart.

Again as root, fire up your favorite text editor and add the following lines to your grub configuration (/boot/grub/grub.conf) just below the initial comments:

<pre>
title FC6 2.6.18-1.2798
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your computer; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

== ATI Video Driver ==

I still haven't gotten this working. While the driver installs, X fails to use direct Open GL rendering. There appears to be a problem with the fglrx driver not supporting composite rendering used be default in Fedora Core 6.

Stay tuned for the fix once I get it working.

== Wireless Networking ==

To use the T60's built in wireless networking driver, you will need to install ipw3945 driver. The AT-RPMs repository, mentioned earlier in this article, provides the necessary packages. As root:

# yum install ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

Once installed, you must add a startup script to have ipw3945d started at boot. Create the following script in a file named /etc/init.d/ipw3945d
<pre>
#! /bin/bash
#
# ipw3490d Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 09 90
# description: Load / unload Intel ipw3490 daemon
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ipw3490d
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
exit 0
fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ipw3945d: "
/sbin/ipw3945d > /dev/null 2>&1
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ipw3945d: "
killproc ipw3945d
echo
;;
status)
status ipw3945d
;;
restart)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
</pre>

Now, add the script with chkconfig to be started on boot:

chkconfig --add ipw3945d

Make sure things are setup correctly by running chkconfig --list ipw345d. Your output should look something like:

# chkconfig --list ipw3945d
ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If everything looks okay, reboot. Once restarted you should be able to run <code>ifconfig eth1</code> and see information about your wireless card.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-06T18:32:34Z

Scott: Added wireless networking.

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-06T18:21:57Z

Scott:

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-06T18:15:09Z

Scott: /* Getting Up to Date */

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-06T18:12:28Z

Scott: /* Replacing the Kernel */

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-05T00:51:36Z

Scott:

* Note: this page is a work in progress

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== First Boot ==

== Works Out of the Box ==

* Wired ethernet
* Video at 1400x1050(VESA driver)
* Touchpad / Mouse
* Think-light

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [yum] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute
yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Reboot

A complete transaction log of what you may expect:
<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum remove kernel
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
--> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6 for package: gnome-volume-manager
--> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5 for package: pcmciautils
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be erased
---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-volume-manager for package: gnome-session
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-session >= 2.15.90-2.fc6 for package: compiz
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
kernel i586 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 installed 43 M
Removing for dependencies:
compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 installed 1.9 M
gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 installed 1.3 M
gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 installed 1.9 M
pcmciautils i386 014-5 installed 57 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 5 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Removing : pcmciautils ######################### [1/5]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
Removing : kernel ######################### [2/5]
Removing : gnome-session ######################### [3/5]
Removing : compiz ######################### [4/5]
Removing : gnome-volume-manager ######################### [5/5]

Removed: kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Dependency Removed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5
Complete!
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for gnome-session to pack into transaction set.
gnome-session-2.16.0-3.fc 100% |=========================| 30 kB 00:00
---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for pcmciautils to pack into transaction set.
pcmciautils-014-5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00
---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for compiz to pack into transaction set.
compiz-0.0.13-0.32.200608 100% |=========================| 20 kB 00:01
---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set.
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6. 100% |=========================| 206 kB 00:02
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be installed
---> Downloading header for gnome-volume-manager to pack into transaction set.
gnome-volume-manager-2.15 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00
---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 core 426 k
gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 core 408 k
gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 core 403 k
kernel i686 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 core 16 M
pcmciautils i386 014-5 core 29 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 5 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): gnome-session-2.16 100% |=========================| 408 kB 00:03
(2/5): pcmciautils-014-5. 100% |=========================| 29 kB 00:00
(3/5): compiz-0.0.13-0.32 100% |=========================| 426 kB 00:04
(4/5): kernel-2.6.18-1.27 100% |=========================| 16 MB 03:13
(5/5): gnome-volume-manag 100% |=========================| 403 kB 00:04
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: kernel ######################### [1/5]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
Installing: gnome-volume-manager ######################### [2/5]
Installing: gnome-session ######################### [3/5]
Installing: pcmciautils ######################### [4/5]
Installing: compiz ######################### [5/5]

Installed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5
Complete!
[root@scottt60 ~]#

</pre>

=== Setting Up Additional Repositories ===

In order to get the ATI driver and the Intel Wireless working, you will need to add two repositories to your cpmuter; [http://rpm.livna.org/ Livna RPMs] and [http://atrpms.net/ AT-RPMs] repositories to your machine.

; Enabling Livna's Repository
: As root, rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm .

; Enabling AT-RPMs Repository
: As root, use your favorite editor to create /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo and type in;
<pre>
[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
</pre>

=== ATI Video Driver ===

Installing Fedora Core 6 on a ThinkPad T60

2006-11-05T00:20:31Z

Scott:

* Note: this page is a work in progress

== Installation ==

Installation of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) on a Thinkpad T60 (xxxx). The installation completes successfully but installs the i586 kernel instead of the required i686 kernel. The wrong kernel is due to a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 known bug] in the Anaconda installer.

== First Boot ==

== Post Install ==

=== Getting Up to Date ===

=== Replacing the Kernel ===

As previously mentioned, the i586 kernel is installed on this machine instead of the i686 version. The i686 version is required to install the ATI video drivers and Intel Wireless drivers required to get this machine 100% operational.

Installing the new kernel can be done by various methods as documented on the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 Red Hat Bugzilla bug]. However, the safest method is to use [yum] to do the kernel swap.

To swap kernels:
# Open up a terminal window are become root.
# Execute
yum remove kernel
# Make note of any other packages that will be removed due to dependency issues. The packages will have to be reinstalled in the next step.
# Install the kernel.i686 package and any other packages removed in the previous step.
# Reboot

A complete transaction log of what you may expect:
<pre>
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum remove kernel
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
--> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6 for package: gnome-volume-manager
--> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5 for package: pcmciautils
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be erased
---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-volume-manager for package: gnome-session
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: gnome-session >= 2.15.90-2.fc6 for package: compiz
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
kernel i586 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 installed 43 M
Removing for dependencies:
compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 installed 1.9 M
gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 installed 1.3 M
gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 installed 1.9 M
pcmciautils i386 014-5 installed 57 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 5 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Removing : pcmciautils ######################### [1/5]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
Removing : kernel ######################### [2/5]
Removing : gnome-session ######################### [3/5]
Removing : compiz ######################### [4/5]
Removing : gnome-volume-manager ######################### [5/5]

Removed: kernel.i586 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Dependency Removed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5
Complete!
[root@scottt60 ~]# yum install kernel.i686 gnome-session compiz gnome-volume-manager pcmciautils
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for gnome-session to pack into transaction set.
gnome-session-2.16.0-3.fc 100% |=========================| 30 kB 00:00
---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for pcmciautils to pack into transaction set.
pcmciautils-014-5.i386.rp 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00
---> Package pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for compiz to pack into transaction set.
compiz-0.0.13-0.32.200608 100% |=========================| 20 kB 00:01
---> Package compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set.
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6. 100% |=========================| 206 kB 00:02
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 set to be installed
---> Downloading header for gnome-volume-manager to pack into transaction set.
gnome-volume-manager-2.15 100% |=========================| 22 kB 00:00
---> Package gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
compiz i386 0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 core 426 k
gnome-session i386 2.16.0-3.fc6 core 408 k
gnome-volume-manager i386 2.15.0-2.fc6 core 403 k
kernel i686 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 core 16 M
pcmciautils i386 014-5 core 29 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 5 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 17 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/5): gnome-session-2.16 100% |=========================| 408 kB 00:03
(2/5): pcmciautils-014-5. 100% |=========================| 29 kB 00:00
(3/5): compiz-0.0.13-0.32 100% |=========================| 426 kB 00:04
(4/5): kernel-2.6.18-1.27 100% |=========================| 16 MB 03:13
(5/5): gnome-volume-manag 100% |=========================| 403 kB 00:04
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: kernel ######################### [1/5]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
Installing: gnome-volume-manager ######################### [2/5]
Installing: gnome-session ######################### [3/5]
Installing: pcmciautils ######################### [4/5]
Installing: compiz ######################### [5/5]

Installed: compiz.i386 0:0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-3.fc6 gnome-volume-manager.i386 0:2.15.0-2.fc6 kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 pcmciautils.i386 0:014-5
Complete!
[root@scottt60 ~]#

</pre>

User:Scott

2006-08-17T22:16:40Z

Scott:

== My Thinkpad ==

My current Thinkpad is a Lenovo [[:Category:T60 | T60]] 2623-D7U running [[:Category:Fedora | Fedora Core 5]].

Installation instructions for the ThinkPad T60

2006-08-17T21:27:45Z

Scott: Fixed link to Fedora distribution article.

Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{T60}}.

==Distribution-specific instructions==

*{{Install|Ubuntu| 6.06 Flight 5|T60}}
*{{Install|Fedora| Core 5| T60}}
*{{Install|Suse| 10.1| T60}}
== Compatibility ==
* [http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/?tab=details&id=358 Thinkpad T60] page on [http://www.emperorlinux.com emperorlinux.com] (compatibility review and custom kernel)