Installing Gentoo on a ThinkPad X1carbon
Specific installation notes for Gentoo on the ThinkPad X1.
Link to X1 main page X1 main page (with standard features list)
USB ethernet dongle U2L100P-Y1
This is the dongle that Lenovo ships with the X1. The device is seen by dmesg as AX88772B
Make menuconfig and enable the following:
- Device Drivers --->
- [*] Network device support --->
- USB Network Adapters --->
- <M> Multi-purpose USB Networking Framework
- <M> ASIX AX88xxx Based USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapters
Get the driver from http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=driverdetail&PItemID=105 (need v4.4.1)
Unzip, edit asix.c and add the device id 0x17ef:0x7203 if it's missing
- static const struct usb_device_id products [] = {
- USB_DEVICE (0x04f1, 0x3008),
- .driver_info = (unsigned long) &ax8817x_info,
- }, {
- // Lenovo 10/100
- USB_DEVICE (0x17ef, 0x7203),
- .driver_info = (unsigned long) &ax88772_info,
- }, {
- // ASIX AX88772B 10/100
- USB_DEVICE (0x0b95, 0x772b),
- .driver_info = (unsigned long) &ax88772_info,
Then
- make && make install
- modprobe asix
