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| | === ThinkPad W500 === | | === ThinkPad W500 === |
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| − | ==== Force Feeding Ubuntu ====
| + | This page gives an overview of the ThinkPad W500. |
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| − | I was unable to get a clean install with a default ThinkPad W500 configuration and a 32 bit Ubuntu 8.10 downloaded ISO burned to CD. I referenced [http://tennessee.ubuntuforums.com/showpost.php?s=a372ee2edc2015c55dfa88a062461249&p=6093814&postcount=4 this post] from the ubuntu forums which allowed me to complete the Ubuntu installation.
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| − | Go into BIOS and change your display settings to:
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| − | * Default Primary Video Device = PCI Express
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| − | * Boot Display Device = ThinPad LCD
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| − | * Graphics Device = Discrete Graphics
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| − | * OS Detection for Switchable Graphics = Disabled
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| − | The W500 has switchable graphics and Ubuntu is unable to determine which graphics card to use without these BIOS settings to point the way.
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| − | After install
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| − | * GUI: Yes
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| − | * Wireless: Yes
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| − | ** My wireless did not work out of the box with a 64-bit 8.10 installation. I had to deactivate the default driver (by going to ''System->Administration->Hardware drivers'' and deactivating ''Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless cards''). Then, it was only a matter of grabbing the madwifi sources, doing ''make'', ''sudo make install'' and ''sudo modprobe ath_pci''. Also, don't forget to place the ath_pci module on ''/etc/modules'' so it gets loaded everytime you boot up. -[[User:Compassnico|Compassnico]]
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| − | ** W500 has multiple wireless options. The Intel AGN 5100 (and reportedly the AGN 5300, although I haven't tested) works out of the box with 32 bit and 64 bit Ubuntu 8.10 (kernel 2.6.27). It does not work with Ubuntu 8.04 (kernel 2.6.24) or earlier kernels. Don't know about kernels between 2.6.24 and 2.6.27, somewhere between the wi-fi for this card was implemented and/or fixed in the kernel. -[[User:gatman3|gatman3]]
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| − | *** wireless(as well as ethernet) support was added in 2.6.27 with the e1000e and iwlagn drivers. But beware, kernel versions before 2.6.27-r4 can brick the ethernet by overwriting the eeeprom -[[User:nils.schlupp|nils.schlupp]]
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| − | * Trackpad: No (Yes when I used [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#TrackPoint_under_Ubuntu_8.10_using_HAL TrackPoint] under Ubuntu 8.10 using HAL)
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| − | Failures and Annoyances
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| − | * Skype: Isn't working. I believe its a microphone issue.
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| − | **The regular Skype build did not work at all (neither sound input nor output) for me, but I installed the ''skype-static-oss'' package from the ''medibuntu'' repository and now everything works, although my mic's volume is a bit low. -[[User:Compassnico|Compassnico]]
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| − | (User [[User:gatman3|gatman3]] reports being able to get an entirely clean out-of-the-box install on W500 model 4062 with Intel AGN 5100 wi-fi using the released Ubuntu 8.10, both 32 bit and 64 bit. Did not have to set Default Primary Video Device to PCI Express. Setting Graphics Device to Integrated (Intel) results in Xorg automatically using the Intel driver, although the default resolution was 1680x1050, not 1920x1200 as my model supports. Setting Graphics Device to Discrete (ATI) results in Xorg automatically using the Radeon driver. For ATI graphics, I recommend switching to the proprietary fglrx driver, which provides very good 3d acceleration, suspend/hibernate work IF Desktop Effects and Xv video playback are not used, and consumes significantly less power - although slightly more than the Intel graphics).
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| − | ==== Slackware 12.2 (with 2.6.28) ====
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| − | After changing the display setting as stated above and installing Slackware 12.2 with the default huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp kernel, I was not able to get wireless to work. It appears the reason is probably due to the fact that {{path|/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c}} does not have an entry for my wireless card (AGN 5350).
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| − | {{cmdroot|lspci}}:
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| − | {{cmdresult|03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 423b}}
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| − | Instead of adding the entry and hoping, I decided that upgrading the kernel would probably work better (since I was going to have to compile one anyways).
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| − | Things to keep in mind when upgrading the kernel:
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| − | *If you plan on using fglrx (ATI's closed source driver, I did) then make sure DRM is a module and not compiled in
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| − | **{{kernelconf|DRM|[M]|Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)|Graphics support|Device Drivers||}}
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| − | *The sleep/hibernate scripts that I found and tweeked suggest removing the uhci_usb beforehand, so make a module
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| − | **{{kernelconf|USB_UHCI_HCD|[M]|UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support|Support for Host-side USB|USB support|Device Drivers|}}
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| − | *If you plan on using hibernate, it can't hurt to tell your kernel where your swap is (I don't know what happens if you don't)
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| − | **{{kernelconf|PM_STD_PARTITION|Default resume partition|Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk')|Power management and ACPI options|||}}
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| − | *If you have >3GB of ram then you'll need to make sure your kernel can support it
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| − | **{{kernelconf|HIGHMEM64G|[Y]|64GB|High Memory Support|Processor type and features||}}
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| − | {{NOTE|For some reason I had to rerun mkswap on my swap partition after changing this. Selecting 4GB here gave me only 3GB of physical memory and 1GB of swap}}
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| − | After the kernel upgrade the wireless should work, you may have to put updated firmware ({{path|iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode}}) in {{path|/lib/firmware}}.
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| − | The next step for me was installing fglrx. I used Catalyst 8.12 because 8.10 did not seem to compile with the new kernel, unfortunately 8.12 is almost completely garbage. Despite the fact that getting DRI/Compiz to work is easy and possible, using 8.12 only allowed me to have one instance of X open (opening a second with fglrx causes an error). Using VESA for the second instance works for a bit, until you switch away and come back, then it appears to have screwed up its color depth. Also, closing my xserver and restarting it requires me to either {{cmdroot|modprobe -r fglrx}} before restarting, or receive an error message followed by a crash, whichever I feel like.
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| − | The volume buttons were the next hump to get over. Where as the mute button muted the system, the volume up/down buttons didn't work. Further more {{cmdroot|echo "up" > /proc/acpi/ibm/volume}} and {{cmdroot|echo "down" > /proc/acpi/ibm/volume}} did nothing. Poking around it *appears* that Lenovo made them keyboard buttons instead of controlling a hardware mixer (which is gone now?). I ended up looking for a program to watch my keyboard and run commands based on keys. I stumbled upon [http://www.burghardt.pl/2008/09/ese-key-daemon-124-released/ esekeyd]. It seems to work fine, my esekeyd config file looks as such:
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| − | VOLUMEDOWN:/usr/bin/amixer set Master 2dB-
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| − | VOLUMEUP:/usr/bin/amixer set Master 2dB+
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| − | Annoyingly when in a real console (Vtx) the volume down button worked, but produced a '~' on the command line. Unsatisfied and lazy, I edited {{path|/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.map.gz}} and cleared the entries for 114 (volume down) and 115 (volume up), which were the values I got from {{cmduser|showkey}}. Then over to {{path|/etc/rc.d/rc.local}} to put in {{cmdresult|/bin/loadkeys -d}} to make it load the keymap I just edited.
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| − | The multimedia keys weren't really a priority for me, but since it was so easy, I figured I'd tell my window manager about them anyways. Being lazy I just put them in the default {{path|/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap}}
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| − | keycode 234 = XF86Back
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| − | keycode 233 = XF86Forward
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| − | keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
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| − | keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
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| − | keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
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| − | keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
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| − | The top two keys being the page left and right keys (no clue what they are really called, but they are with the arrow keys), the bottom four the Fn+Arrow audio keys. All values came from {{cmduser|xev}}.
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| − | At this point I was getting increasingly lazy, so instead of making separate acpi rules for sleep and hibernate, I just edited {{path|/etc/acpi/acpi_eventhandler.sh}}. It ended up looking like this:
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| − | #!/bin/sh
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| − | # Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
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| − | IFS=${IFS}/
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| − | set $@
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| − | case "$1" in
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| − | button)
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| − | case "$2" in
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| − | power) /sbin/init 0
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| − | ;;
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| − | *) logger "ACPI action $2 is not defined"
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| − | ;;
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| − | esac
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| − | ;;
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| − | ibm)
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| − | case "$2" in
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| − | hotkey)
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| − | case "$5" in
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| − | 00001004) #Sleep button Fn+F4
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| − | /etc/acpi/sleep.sh
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| − | ;;
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| − | 0000100c) #Hibernate button Fn+F12
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| − | /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh
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| − | ;;
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| − | *)
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| − | logger "ibm / hotkey $5 undefined"
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| − | ;;
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| − | esac
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| − | ;;
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| − | *)
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| − | logger "IBM $1 / $2 / $3 / $4 / $5 / is not defined"
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| − | ;;
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| − | esac
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| − | ;;
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| − | *)
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| − | logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
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| − | ;;
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| − | esac
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| − | The sleep script {{path|/etc/acpi/sleep.sh}} was completely ripped off from [[How to configure acpid]]. For {{path|/etc/acpi/hibernate.sh}} I just reused sleep by changing "mem" into "disk" and had it disconnect me from the network before going down.
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| − | At this point I have confirmed working
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| − | *Graphics/DRI with fglrx
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| − | *Volume/multimedia buttons
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| − | *Wireless ethernet
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| − | *Wired ethernet
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| − | *Sleep and hibernate
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| − | *The "nub"
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| − | Things that don't appear to work right now
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| − | *The fingerprint reader, looks like there aren't Linux drivers for it yet (January 8th, 2008)
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| − | What I have not tried
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| − | *SD card reader
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| − | *Vga out
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| − | *DisplayPort out
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| − | *Modem
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| − | *Firewire
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| − | *PCMCIA
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| − | *Microphone/ headphone
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| − | *The touch pad, I hate them so much that the first thing I did after receiving the laptop was disable it, before even booting it once.
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| | ==== Standard Features ==== | | ==== Standard Features ==== |
| − | | + | * [[Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn)]] 2.4, 2.6, 2.8GHz 1066MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache CPU |
| − | * Intel Core 2 Duo (Penryn) 2.4, , 2.6, 2.8 GHz 1066MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache CPU* | + | * [[Switchable Graphics]] graphics with the following graphics cards |
| − | ** [[ATI FireGL V5700]] (512 MB) | + | ** [[ATI Mobility FireGL V5700]] (512 MB) |
| − | * One of the following displays: | + | ** [[ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650]] (256 MB) |
| | + | ** [[Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD]] |
| | + | * One of the following [[TFT display]]s: |
| | ** 15.4" TFT display with 1680x1050 (WSXGA+) resolution | | ** 15.4" TFT display with 1680x1050 (WSXGA+) resolution |
| | ** 15.4" TFT display with 1920x1200 (WUXGA) resolution | | ** 15.4" TFT display with 1920x1200 (WUXGA) resolution |
| − | * 2 GB [[PC3-8500]] memory standard upgradable to 8 GB | + | * 2GB [[PC3-8500]] memory standard upgradable to 8GB |
| − | * 200 GB 7200 rpm 2.5" SATA HDD (available with encryption) | + | * 80GB 2.5" SATA HDD |
| − | * 320 GB 5400 rpm 2.5" SATA HDD | + | * 100GB 2.5" SATA HDD |
| − | * 64 GB 1.8" Solid State Disk | + | * 160GB 2.5" SATA HDD |
| | + | * 200GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA HDD (available with encryption) |
| | + | * 250GB 2.5" SATA HDD |
| | + | * 320GB 5400rpm 2.5" SATA HDD |
| | + | * 64GB 1.8" SSD HDD (Solid State Disk) |
| | + | * 80GB 1.8" SSD HDD (Solid State Disk) |
| | + | * 128GB 1.8" SSD HDD (Solid State Disk) |
| | ** [[Full Disk Encryption (FDE)]] Available on some models | | ** [[Full Disk Encryption (FDE)]] Available on some models |
| − | * [[Ethernet Controllers#Intel Gigabit (10/100/1000)|Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller]] | + | * [[Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express]] |
| − | * [[UltraBay|UltraBay Slim]] with one of the following: | + | * [[ThinkPad Modem (MDC-3.0, 56kbps HDA)]] |
| − | ** [[UltraBay Slim Super Multi-Burner Drive]] | + | * [[Ultrabay|Serial Ultrabay Slim]] with one of the following: |
| | + | **[[Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD-ROM Drive]] |
| | + | **[[Serial Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD combo Drive]] |
| | + | **[[Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Burner]] |
| | + | **[[Serial Ultrabay Slim Blu-ray Burner]] |
| | * [[MiniPCI Express slot]] 1 with one of the following: | | * [[MiniPCI Express slot]] 1 with one of the following: |
| | ** None (empty) | | ** None (empty) |
| − | ** [[Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller]] | + | ** [[Intel Wifi Link 5100 (AGN)]] |
| | + | ** [[Intel Wifi Link 5300 (AGN)]] |
| | ** [[Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150/5350 WiFi/WiMAX controller]] | | ** [[Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150/5350 WiFi/WiMAX controller]] |
| | * [[MiniPCI Express slot]] 2 with one of the following: | | * [[MiniPCI Express slot]] 2 with one of the following: |
| | ** None (empty) | | ** None (empty) |
| − | ** [[Verizon 1xEV-DO WWAN]] (It seems to be a Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem) | + | ** [[Sierra Wireless MC5725|Verizon Mobile Broadband]] |
| − | ** [[Cingular HSDPA WWAN]] (Sierra Wireless MC8775) | + | ** [[Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband Module|AT&T Mobile Broadband with GPS]] |
| | ** [[Intel® Turbo Memory hard drive cache]] up to 2GB | | ** [[Intel® Turbo Memory hard drive cache]] up to 2GB |
| | * 1 [[CardBus slot]] (Type 2) | | * 1 [[CardBus slot]] (Type 2) |
| | * 1 Slot with one of the following: | | * 1 Slot with one of the following: |
| | ** [[ExpressCard slot|ExpressCard/54 slot]] | | ** [[ExpressCard slot|ExpressCard/54 slot]] |
| − | ** SmartCard reader | + | ** [[Lenovo Integrated Smart Card Reader]] |
| | * [[Ricoh_R5C843|4-in-1 Memory reader]] | | * [[Ricoh_R5C843|4-in-1 Memory reader]] |
| − | * [[Integrated Webcam on some models, USB ID 17ef:4807]] | + | * 1.3MP [[Integrated camera]] on select models |
| − | * [[Embedded Security Subsystem|IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0]] | + | * [[Embedded Security Subsystem|Trusted Computing Group TPM 1.2]] |
| − | * [[Active Protection System|IBM Active Protection System]] | + | * [[Active Protection System]] |
| | * [[Integrated Fingerprint Reader]] on select models | | * [[Integrated Fingerprint Reader]] on select models |
| − | * [[ThinkPad_Bluetooth_with_Enhanced_Data_Rate_(BDC-2)|Bluetooth]] on select models | + | * [[ThinkPad_Bluetooth_with_Enhanced_Data_Rate_(BDC-2.1)|Bluetooth]] on select models |
| | * [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo) | | * [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo) |
| − | * IEEE1394 Firewire on select models | + | * [[Firewire Port|Firewire 400]] (IEEE1394a) |
| − | * Displayport | + | * [[DisplayPort]] |
| | * [[Intel Active Management Technology (AMT)]] on select models | | * [[Intel Active Management Technology (AMT)]] on select models |
| − | * [[Intel 82801I HDA]] (ICH9 Family) HD Audio controller | + | * Intel HD Audio with a [[CX20561]] codec |
| | </div> | | </div> |
| | |style="vertical-align:top" | | | |style="vertical-align:top" | |
| | + | [[Image:ThinkPadW500.jpg|ThinkPad W500|300px]] |
| | |} | | |} |
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| | + | === Linux Installation === |
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| − | | + | *[[Install Mandriva 2009.0 on a ThinkPad W500]] |
| | + | *[[Install Lucid Lynx on a ThinkPad W500]] |
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| | [[Category:W Series]] | | [[Category:W Series]] |
