Subject: Re: thinkpad?
To: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/17/2004 13:16:11
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Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> writes:
> Thanks to Perry I have a current kernel on my ThinkPad T41
> which recognizes the onboard ethernet (wm0) and wireless adapters (ath0).
>
> I noticed though that dhclient couldn't get a lease using wm0.
> In fact even configuring it manually (after killing off dhclient)
> I could not get any traffic out of it.
>
> BUT as soon as I ran tcpdump on it - it started working.
> This hints that there's some extra initialization step needed.
> (hopefully putting it into/outof promiscuous mode isn't it ;-)

This doesn't happen for me -- my machine seems to be doing fine.

> Also, does anyone have an XFree86 config suitable for the T41?

I do.


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Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=XF86Config
Content-Description: X configuration for T41

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/local"
	FontPath     "/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "wsmouse"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/wsmouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "IBM"
	ModelName    "Thinkpad LCD"
	#Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelOff"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DDCMode"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CloneDisplay"       	# <i>
        #Option     "CloneMode"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "CloneHSync"         	# [<str>]
        #Option     "CloneVRefresh"      	# [<str>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "radeon"
	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
	BoardName   "Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	#Option      "NoINT10"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	#SubSection "Display"
	#	Depth     8
	#EndSubSection
	#SubSection "Display"
	#	Depth     15
	#EndSubSection
	#SubSection "Display"
	#	Depth     16
	#EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection


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