Old IBM Laptop

[Taavi Burns]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:11:55AM -0500, Alex Maynard wrote:
> I'm planning to purchase a used laptop, which I would then install linux
> on.  From previous discussion on this list it sounds like IBM is the best
> bet. Are there any particular models of old IBM laptops to avoid for linux
> or anything else I need to watch or am I basically okay with any laptop?
> Also are distributions of linux particularly suited (or not suited) for
> laptop use?

I'm running Gentoo on my T30, and it works like a charm as a desktop machine.
;)  I say that because I haven't gotten sleep or hibernate working yet.

Also, you may want to avoid the MiniPCI wifi cards (at least the Cisco ones)
if you intend to use the iwtools and/or Kernel 2.6 (Cisco has a driver for
2.4 that seems to work just fine...if you don't mind using their supplied
utility to configure the card).

The battery indicator stuff works beautifully, as does SpeedStep (though it
seems to have a disagreement with the sound driver, which can cause the
sound to break up when it switches speeds).

You may want to join the Linux Thinkpad mailing list, as this is their
speciality.

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