Installing Debian 4.0 (Etch) with Linux 2.6.20.1 on a Thinkpad x60s

Lenovo Thinkpad X60s (UK156FR) Type 1704-56G On Debian Etch (Kernel 2.6.20.1) --Monphpnet 18:19, 4 March 2007 (CET) The first install on debian stable releases doesn't work due to a lot of problems with sata disk on this model. I'm take a daily built installation disk on testing release i used the netinstaller iso images with an external usb-cdrom drive (work fine) with Debian GNU/Linux testing "Etch" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST

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This netinstaller is used for portability with IBM-systems Compatible.

after netinstaller and first reboot i'm take a Kernel 2.6.20.1 from the kernel.org And make package with modules and initrd image linux-image-2.6.20.1_2.6.20.1_i386.deb

> lspci (for this specific model) 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b4) 15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 09) 15:00.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 18) 16:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) This additional pcmcia Card is a Linksys WPC54G-FR used with ipw2100 module. Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) This Internal Wireless Lan adapter require [ipw3945] modules compiled in Kernel and a specific Deamon to activate them and link up This Network Adapter.