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General Hardware Specifications of T41:

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

• 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
• Firmware for the PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 installed using livna repo.

    
  	Install the livna-repo RPM
  	Then just do:
  	yum -y install ipw2100-firmware
  	After this You can configurate your wireless with NetworkMAnager without a problem.
     

• mplayer installed using livna repo.

    
  	See the previous item for livna repo configuration
  	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 for k3b installed using livna repo.

    
  	See the previous item for livna repo configuration
  	yum -y install k3b-extras
     

• Support for mp3 in Banshee installed using livna repo.

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

• Using Mplayer fastforward may hang the PC

• df -hl

  	Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  	/dev/hda3             5.0G  4.4G  336M  94% /
  	/dev/hda2              76M   15M   58M  21% /boot
  	tmpfs                 251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
  	/dev/hda6              27G   24G  920M  97% /home
    

• lspci

  	00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
  	00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
  	00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
  	00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
  	00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
  	00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
  	00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
  	01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
  	02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
  	02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
  	02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
  	02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
  

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