[wplug] IBM Laptop

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:27, Henry Umansky wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm about to purchase and IBM Thinkpad R32 and I wanted to install Linux on
> that machine.  I was just wondering if anyone knew of any hardware problems
> with that laptop??  Will everything work with it, especially the built-in
> modem and ethernet?  Also, I heard rumors of being able to decline the MS
> agreement when you first start your laptop, install Linux,  and you can get
> a refund of some kind.  It sounds bogus, but I just wanted to double-check.

<self-promotion mode>
Well, you could have a look at a tutorial I've put up at
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/howto.html
for my experiences installing Red Hat 7.3 on a T23.
</self-promotion mode>

On the T23 everything works fine (little trouble with modem, dunno about IrDA 
but people have reported that both work)

- From there on, see if there are major differences in the hardware and make 
your decision.

The refund stuff will work if you're ready to argue big time with your vendor 
- - if you get the chance though, do it.

(our CMU laptops came "preconfigured", so we didn't have a chance to accept 
any EULA before using them...)

- -A
- -- 
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc
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