[ltp] At a Standstill with 770z

[Andrew Gaffney]

Jon Flanders wrote:
> After several weeks of trying, I still have no sound or wireless with my
> 770z. I have even tried some commercial apps like linuxant without
> success.
> 
> It appears that W98 will be the way to go for wireless and sound.
> 
> I am trying Mandrake 10 at the moment. The pcmcia cards don't even beep
> on bootup. The D-Link card does get recognized as an RTL8180, not that
> it does me any good.
> 
> It would certainly appear that Linux is not ready for prime time on this
> Thinkpad laptop at the moment. It should not be this hard.

I'm running Gentoo Linux on my 770 right now. The only problems I had were getting the 
sound working with ALSA due to the CS4236 not working with ISAPNP. I just google'd until I 
found a working ALSA module config.

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Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548