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]

I’m finally getting around to setting up multi-channel audio. I’ve had this machine for awhile now, and most things are humming along.

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OK. getting ACPI to work properly needed to be revisited.

Suspend/Resume on T40 [bellet.info]

This guy originally used APM, but his update on 2004/07/15 makes some good notes, which I followed, notably:

• Local APIC is required for USB to function properly, but it borks all over suspend/poweroff processing. There is a simple enough referenced patch to make it behave…

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So, I have gentoo up and running on my T40, and thought I'd share the resources that helped me get there.

For those interested, here's the currently running kernel config.

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