HOWTOs - Driver Installation

Information on how to make additional hardware work on your Thinkpad.

PowerManagement

• SpeedStep on piix4 (How to make SpeedStep (cpufreq) work on Coppermine-piix4-smi based Thinkpads)
• cpufreqd (How to configure the cpufreqd SpeedStep daemon)
• powersaved (How to configure the cpufreqd SpeedStep daemon)

Wireless LAN

• ndiswrapper for Intel 2200bg (ndiswrapper configuration for intel/pro 2200BG)
• ipw2200 Open-source native driver for Intel/PRO Wireless 2200BG
• Madwifi Native driver for cards based on Atheros chipsets

Touchpad/Trackpoint

• Trackpoint

Internal Modem

• Modem Drivers for the various internal (soft)modems

Graphic

• Fglrx ATI Mobility driver

Additional Hardware

• IBM UltraCam II (How to make the IBM UltraCam II work under Linux)