Linux on IBM Thinkpad R40 / R41

The following sections is information related to the installation of Linux to a IBM Thinkpad R40 / R41. This is a laptop that I built for my brother.

BIOS Updates

It's worth checking from time to time for BIOS updates and so on at IBM. There are reasonably full technical specifications from IBM are here.

Page keys

There are a couple of special keys above the left and right arrow keys, which I gather are bound to Forward and Back in Internet Explorer under Windows. Using xev, I identified their keycodes as 233 and 234, and I put the following into my ~/.Xmodmap:

keycode 233 = Next_Virtual_Screen
keycode 234 = Prev_Virtual_Screen

More references

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadR40-2681
http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/thinkpad/tpr40/
http://priyadi.net/archives/2004/12/20/gentoo-linux-under-thinkpad-t41p/

Wireless Broadband using Huawei E220

HOWTO: 3G Connection to Internet with Huawei E220

System Rescue

Get System Rescue CD from http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
One of my favourites is Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/

Screen

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/09/27/a-guide-to-gnu-screen/

Free Books

http://freebooks.homelinux.org/