Max H. wrote:
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John Summerfield wrote:
I've just acquired a use IBM Thinkpad R40 model 2722-GDM.
The major flies in the ointment are the wireless and the inbuilt modem
(Agere something). Google tells me the modem can be made to work, and
I'm pretty sure from my Acer that the Atheros wifi also work with some
minor fiddling: I've build the driver from source.
To address only the Atheros questions, yes it works, no CentOS doesn't
spin up the drivers themselves. I have an R40 (2682-48U) and I don't
build my own drivers, but you can get them in RPM form at the atrpms
repo. Check out the Repos from the wiki if you want to know how to add
atrpms.
Everytime there is a kernel upgrade, I just wait a few days until the
new madwifi items are re-spun from the atrpms folks, and life has been
good with my wireless for over 2 years now.
<http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories>
I've never fired up my modem, so I'm sure if it works or not. But I can
tell you my Atheros chip functions.
rpm -qa | grep madwifi
madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at
madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at
madwifi-0.9.2.1-29.el4.at
These would be the three packages you need from atrpms for it to load up
your wireless. You can compare my model R40 with yours, and if you need
any hardware comparisons, just let me know.
lspci -v for my Atheros shows:
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211
802.11ab NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 17ab:8310
Flags: fast Back2Back, medium devsel, IRQ 11
Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
That looks to be the one I found at thinkwiki; mine's 11a/g. I'm sure
that as far as the software's concerned it's near enough the same.
Aside from that, I've been extremely pleased with running CentOS on my
R40. I get all the multimedia items from Dag. Xine works great for DVDs,
and XMMS or mplayer for MP3s.
It's extremely stable for me. The only issues I've ever hard are the
fact that I can't get my machine to wake up correctly when I try to put
I'd forgotten about that; OpenSUSE 10.0 suspended and resumed my Acer
very nicely, ootb.
FC5 doesn't.
it to sleep, but I've never experimented much on getting it work either
so it might be something simple. I know I'm not answering your questions
about RHEL5, but I thought I would share my experience on my R40, and
specifically mention you can get the RPMs for your wireless through the
third-party repo.
I'm imagining that RHEL5 will be better in all respects than RHEL4, and
like a refined FC6:-)
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Cheers
John
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