On 13 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI > > video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also > > the sound is a problem. They all do work but it is not fun. > > Get Intel wireless along with any thinkpad. Always. But don't expect drivers > for less than one-year-old hardware to be fully stable and well supported, > not even Intel always manages that. This is a golden rule, and applies to > every hardware: as usual, the bleeding edge is not a wise place to be if you > are not a driver developer. > > If you are lucky, the thinkpad will have proper e1000 ethernet instead of > sort-of-ok tg3 ethernet (still, the tg3 found in thinkpads are fully > supported by Linux, so it will work well anyway). > > ATI is getting fixed by AMD, fortunately. Don't get one of the new thinkpad > with nVidia GPUs, go for Intel (immediate full Linux support with good open > drivers) or ATI (good drivers are about one year away). > > But the thinkpad *firmware* in the new machines is still going to be trouble > for about one year at the speed I am going with thinkpad-acpi. > > As for the sound, it is just the usual problem with very new hardware, and > it has already been fixed upstream in ALSA AFAIK. >
I made the mistake of reinstalling Sidux on my Z61M in the hope of eliminating the unexplained NMI: 1 0 error (it didn't, but that's another story ...) . I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After trying out all kinds of things in /etc/networking/interfaces, the best I get is repeated failed attempts to make a connection, plus "wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801" (repeated twice). It's lucky that at least the wired connection still works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
