Fedora 7 on the T60p

Wireless Issues
The default iwl drivers in the F7 kernel seem to still be a bit buggy. I'm going to try setting up the known working drivers from atrpms.

Using the init script from here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=179781
 * 1) !/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions

PID= case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting IPW3945d" [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/ipw3945d --quiet if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then stat_fail else echo $PID > /var/run/ipw3945d.pid add_daemon ipw3945d stat_done fi stop) stat_busy "Stopping IPW3945d" [ ! -z "$PID" ]  && ipw3945d --kill if [ $? -gt 0 ] ; then stat_fail else rm /var/run/ipw3945d.pid rm_daemon ipw3945d stat_done fi restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0

Display issues
I'm having some issues getting the display drivers to work in Fedora 7 on the T60p. The vesa drivers seem to work just fine on FC6 and RHEL 5. I'm trying to use some of the boot options defined in the Fedora 7 Installation Guide, Appendix A. Boot Options

Right now I'm trying an install from the i386 DVD using a vnc display with syslog messages sent to my desktop. The boot options are: vmlinux initrd=initrd.img vnc vncconnect=rusharri-lnx.cisco.com:5500 syslog=64.102.35.33:514

This seems to work fine but of course firstboot doesn't work well since the system comes up in runlevel 3. I was able to run firstboot by starting a vncserver with the following config file.


 * 1) !/bin/sh

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -nowin -connect rusharri-lnx.cisco.com:5500 & firstboot &

Its good enough enven though it is obviously missing a window manager as the dialogs come up in random locations without borders.

Packages to include

 * deskbar-applet
 * nautilus-actions
 * liferea
 * xchat
 * yumex

Packages to install
After a default install there are a few packages missing


 * emacs-nox can't be selected from Anaconda .  If you install the emacs listed there you get the X11 bits as well.
 * yum-allowdowngrade
 * yum-changelog
 * yum-fastestmirror
 * yum-fedorakmod
 * yum-kernel-module
 * yum-merge-conf
 * yum-priorities
 * yum-protectbase
 * yum-refresh-updatesd
 * yum-security
 * yum-skip-broken
 * yum-utils
 * yumex