[ltp] Which Distro supports T60?

[Aaron Mulder]

Before you ask, I still haven't tried APM.

But I did manage to get the Verizon broadband wireless working under
Linux.  The main formula is here (though you can ignore the udev and
hwconfig files and just use "modprobe usbserial vendor=3D0x1199
product=3D0x0218" if you're not using SuSE):

http://www.evdoforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=3D2095&start=3D0&postdays=3D0&pos=
torder=3Dasc&highlight

One important step is that if the Verizon light on the machine is not
lit and it won't connect, use the wireless power switch on the front
of the machine to turn wireless off and on again, and then the Verizon
should work.

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 3/28/06, Felix E. Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> wrote:
> At Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:06:00 -0500,
> Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > I have no idea.  Is there some simple way to test this without
> > reconfiguring my whole installation?
>
> There are three ways (but there may be a simpler one):
>
> * Look in the documentation included with the system.
>
> * Look in the Hardware Maintenance Manual whether there is any
>   mentioning of APM.  OK, I can do that myself.  Though, it
>
> * If you're using "grub" as boot manager (it's most likely the default
>   of SuSE 10.1), then enable APM and disable ACPI, just during one
>   start.  The relevant kernel parameters: "apm=3Don acpi=3Doff".  Once
>   booted into LINUX, execute "apm" which tells one whether APM is
>   available or not.
>
> > Suspend to RAM did not even give it a go before failing, complaining
> > that the machine is not on a whitelist or something.  There's an
> > override flag I'll try later.  Suspend to disk worked, though there
> > was an error-like message right before the video came back up.
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> > It's the bit in the middle of this excerpt:
>
> No idea, sorry.  It may not even be a problem, perhaps indeed just
> debugging output.
>
> > It also uses a different power adapter and different main and ultrabay
> > batteries.
>
> That's a disadvantage, but I assume that there are technical reasons for
> this switch.
>
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