[TriLUG] Thinkpad T60 opinions?

[Brian Henning]

I have a T60p that I bought a few weeks ago.  My only hassle so far is 
getting the wireless NIC to do any sort of encryption.  I can only get 
it to associate with my WAP if I turn off all encryption (I can't even 
get WEP to work)..  I'm about to post a beer offer if someone might be 
willing to make a house call for me...

Otherwise it seems to work great.  Oh, well, one other issue is that I 
haven't been able to successfully suspend or hibernate it, either. 
Going into Hibernate works, but coming out of it locks up..  But I've 
seen some info about that; I just haven't had time to troubleshoot it much.

I can make the keyboard light come on, though!  whee!  And its onboard 
FireGL chipset is supported at least by the proprietary ATI drivers, and 
its acceleration makes my head spin.

Cheers,
~Brian

Jim Tuttle wrote:
> I'm looking for a new laptop and think I'll probably get a Thinkpad T60.
>  I was wondering if anyone here had any comments or recommendations for
> or against.  Whatever I get, I'll shrink the ntfs partition down and
> install Ubuntu so Linux compatibility is important.  In fact, I see that
> you can get Suse pre-loaded.  Of course, it costs about twice as much
> that way!
> 
> The actual configuration I'm considering is at
> http://www.trilug.org/~jjtuttle/thinkpad-t60.pdf if anyone cares to look.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 

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