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| | Ubuntu 9.10 works great on my T500, with suspend, hibernate, sound, wifi, out of the box. I'm amazed. | | Ubuntu 9.10 works great on my T500, with suspend, hibernate, sound, wifi, out of the box. I'm amazed. |
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| − | I dream about a T series Thinkpad since years, but they are very expensive in France.
| + | More info [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Install_Ubuntu_9.10_on_a_ThinkPad_T500 here]: |
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| − | I found a T500 2055-45U on ebay. I like to buy in Ebay, because €/$ is at my advantage this century.
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| − | It's a like new item, just 1 month old in the len,ovo worldwide waranty checker. Seller can send it to France, great.
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| − | It's a 15.4' WSXGA+ panel. Here are some hardware scans.
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| − | lspci
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| − | 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
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| − | 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
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| − | 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
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| − | 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07)
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| − | 00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection (rev 07)
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| − | 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
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| − | 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
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| − | 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
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| − | 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
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| − | 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
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| − | 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
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| − | 15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
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| − | 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
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| − | 15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)
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| − | 15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
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| − | 15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
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| − | </pre>
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| − | lsusb
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| − | Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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| − | Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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| − | Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | Bus 004 Device 006: ID 0a5c:2145 Broadcom Corp.
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| − | Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc.
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| − | Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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| − | </pre>
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| − | cat /proc/cpuinfo
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| − | processor : 0
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| − | vendor_id : GenuineIntel
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| − | cpu family : 6
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| − | model : 23
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| − | model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
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| − | stepping : 10
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| − | cpu MHz : 800.000
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| − | cache size : 6144 KB
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| − | </pre>
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| − | I found an el cheapo 2nd hard drive caddy adapter, always in ebay, to insert a 2nd disk.
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| − | Search about "2nd hard HDD Caddy Adapter For Thinkpad T500" I found mine for 15$ free shipping.
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| − | My second disk was a plain old working ubuntu edgy 8.04 install I made in my Lenovo 3000 N100 I reported here several years ago.
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| − | After booting the linux partition with F12 at boot time, linux start in console mode. Of course, xorg support is obsolete for this new hardware. Good surprise, Ethernet seems working. I plus a cable, a bit of dhcp magic later, I can send the usual update/upgrade sentences.
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| − | <pre>
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| − | apt-get update
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| − | apt-get upgrade
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| − | Now I have an updated version of edgy, I can test a bit of new magic (for me), "do-upgrade-release"
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| − | <pre>
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| − | do-upgrade-release
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| − | </pre>
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| − | After a little time of reflexion (computing 98% CPU), it ask me permission to download 1Go of updates. I have the great pleasure to enjoy an optical fiber access. It downloads at 4300ko/s. I'm still amazed with this access, 1 year later.
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| − | I reboot to enjoy the new kernel 2.6.28
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| − | It spawns gdm in compatibility mode, as this model enjoy a switchable graphics. It can be superseded in the bios.
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| − | I start in graphic mode, just time to see working: sound, wifi (home AP preference is still saved, it connects out of the box), Ethernet, suspend and hibernate.
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| − | Blutooth works out of the box. I connect my logitech blutooth mouse in 2 seconds. Trackpoint and mouse paddle works too.
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| | ==Distro specific instructions== | | ==Distro specific instructions== |
