Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

I have what I tried below, but I eventually dropped the attempt. The Lenovo modules hung up VMWare any time I tried to boot it that way, and while I could mount the NTFS partition used by WinXP R/W with the tools below, I could not easily get WinXP to look at the lion's share of the drive. (My fault, really - if I weren't so attached to other filesystem types, I could probably have made this work).

Got a new T60 yay!, here's my brain dump on getting it to work with gentoo (2006.1).

See also (Updated as new parts are added):

• Part 2: NTFS
• Part 3: Networking
  

Gathering some links to get wireless working (better) on my T40. I'm trying to figure out how to get some semblance of roaming... sigh

References:

• HOWTO Wireless Configuration and Startup[gentoo-wiki.com]
• Wireless Networking[Gentoo Linux Handbook]

Those distfiles... /usr/portage/distfiles can get pretty big, and cleaning it out periodically can save a lot of disk space. The brute force approach is to just clear out the whole thing, which can be more practical if you have a fast connection. If redownloading what you need is no big deal, then cleaning out distfiles can be the faster way to go.