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Installing Fedora Core 6 on IBM Thinkpad T23

Last updated: 2007-JUN-20

General Hardware Specifications of T23:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
14.1 TFT Display	Works	Select Generic LCD Display in Installer
S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR	Works	No special procedure required during installation (Driver:savage)
1024MB, SDRAM, 2DIMMs	Works	No special procedure required during installation
40 GB IBM/Hitachi HTS541040G9AT00 (Later addition)	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller	Works	No special procedure required during installation (Driver:e100)
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller	Not even try to	No plan to
8x-3.3x DVD drive, 24x-10x CD-ROM drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (FRU:12P3657, later addition)	Works	No special procedure required during installation (Driver:hostap_pci)
Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller	Works	No special procedure required (Driver:snd-intel8x0)

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6

Basic Installation of Fedora Core 6:

I'd installed Fedora Core 6 because I'm on the RedHat line ;-), no time to learn other distros
Obtaining Fedora Core 6, just donwload it from any of the mirrors

mplayer installed using livna repo.

  
	Install the livna-repo RPM
	Then just do
	yum -y install mplayer mplayerplug-in
	mplayerplug-in provides the Firefox's plugin.
	I've downloaded the "All codecs" package from mplayer Package then, as root, extracted to /usr/lib/win32

Support for mp3 in Banshee installed using livna repo.

  
	See the previous item for livna repo configuration
	yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Unresolved issues

Using Mplayer fastforward may hang the PC

More Specific Information. Specific stuff such as:

df -hl

	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
	/dev/hda3              36G   12G   23G  34% /
	/dev/hda1             101M   15M   81M  16% /boot
	tmpfs                 505M     0  505M   0% /dev/shm

lspci

	00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
	00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
	00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
	00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
	00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
	00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
	00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
	00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
	00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
	00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
	00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
	01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
	02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
	02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
	02:02.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
	02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)

Contact Information

e-mail address:carlos.sepulveda[at]gmail.com
ICQ:31472448
GTALK:carlos.sepulveda[at]gmail.com

Links:

Livna
My Syte
Laptop manufacturer T23
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