Installing OpenSUSE 11.3 on a ThinkPad T410s
Contents
Model
Lenovo Thinkpad T410s 2912-W1C, BIOS 1.11
General
This installation instruction describes these parts that do not or do not completely work after my OpenSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7 DVD installation using KDE 4 as window manager.
Graphics
Enabling compositing crashes X due to a bug in the Intel 2010Q1 graphics package. Fixed packages are available [1].
Network
Because of bug [2], the laptop pattern must be installed manually using YaST. Then, YaST must be used to switch to NetworkManager instead of traditional ifup.
Wireless WAN
The optional Wireless WAN (WWAN) adapter Qualcomm Gobi 2000 does not work out of the box. First, the current (2.6.34) qcserial kernel driver module does not support the 2000 version of the Qualcomm Gobi. Second, the application that uploads the firmware to the WWAN device is broken since kernel 2.6.32 [3]. Thus, you need kernel 2.6.35 or to backport the related patches manually [4].
