Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad z60t

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This is a 2533-F4U.

I'd recommend a fresh install. I did an upgrade from Edgy before the Feisty release and I'm not sure if my issues were upgrade- or not-yet-baked-related.

Works without effort

  • Widescreen graphics (Intel 915)
  • Wired network
  • Keylight via Fn key
  • Audio
  • Volume/mute buttons
  • LCD brightness Fn keys
  • Power management w/ UltraBay battery
    • There was a bug in Edgy where the system would shut down when the UltraBay battery hit 0% instead of switching over to the main battery. This is now fixed.

Needed some tweaking

WiFi

WiFi didn't work at all. There are still known issues with the Atheros chipset, the restricted HAL, and the reported signal strength. It turns out that the issue was with the new Gnome Network Manager that ships with Feisty, version 0.6.4.

I now have open & WPA WiFi working by installing the .debs for Gnome Network Manager 0.7.0. (note: can't seem to find the thread right now as there is a LOT of noise about the Network Manager in Feisty; please post the link if you can find it). I was unable to connect to a WEP AP at a friend's house, but he needs to upgrade to WPA anyway.

SD drive

Reads and writes appear to work. I can't seem to unmount the card for ejecting. I'm getting a "mount disagrees with fstab" error.

Still not working

Suspend/Hibernate

This seems not to be Thinkpad specific, but rather something low level.

Microphone

I've not tried to make this work yet, but it's not working by default.

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