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• Contact: [http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1512 wolfchri]

• Make: IBM
• Brand: Thinkpad
• Model: 600E

• Website: [http://www.lenovo.com/Search/?q=600E&v=15&lang=en&cc=us&en=utf&Search.x=29&Search.y=11&Search=Search http://www.lenovo.com]

Current Issues

Hardware details

Notes

Your main ressource for Linux on the Thinkpad 600E is the [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:600E Thinkpad Linux Wiki].

I. Sound

Since hardware detection routines on Linux misinterpret the built-in soundchip, sound does not work out of the box, although the sound chip is perfectly supported in Linux.

So you need to tell the system manually to use the right sound driver.

* First, you need to make sure that the wrong sound driver is not being loaded from the hardware detection routine. Edit the driver blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add these lines:

# To fix the sound issue on the Thinkpad 600e

blacklist snd_cs46xx

* Second, tell the system which drivers to load instead by adding the following lines to /etc/rc.local:

modprobe ad1848

modprobe uart401

modprobe snd-cs4236

* Third, you need to tell the system that you want to use a specific driver for your sound card and some hardware details about the sound device. Add to your file /etc/modprobe.d/sound the following lines:

alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236

options snd-cs4236 port=0x530 cport=0x538 isapnp=0 dma1=0 dma2=1 irq=5

Attention: You might have to find out the right hardware addresses, IRQ and DMA channel of your sound device. You can use the PS2.exe program in order to do so.

Also turn off the "Quick-Boot" option in the Thinkpad BIOS if you have troubles with the right parameters for the sound driver. In order to get into the BIOS menu, press XXXX (forgot the key ) during boot-up.

You might have to update your BIOS - go [http://www.lenovo.com/search/?en=utf&v=14&lang=en&cc=us&lv=c&q=600E+BIOS&x=13&y=12 here] or [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade here] for more information how to do that. Keep in mind that a BIOS upgrade IS DANGEROUS!!! - it can destroy your Thinkpad!

Links to external resources that might be helpful:

http://hardware.mcse.ms/message161125.html

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Cirrus+Logic&card=CS4237B&chip=CS4237B&module=cs4236#modp

http://augart.com/thinkpad600/thinkpad-600-sound.html

--> PS2.exe, Link to guides here

II. PCMCIA

In order to get PCMCIA working, you need to add at least the following kernel parameter (in /boot/grub/menu.lst): pci=noacpi

Some people (depending on your BIOS settings) also need in addition: pnpbios=off acpi=off

Add that to the end of the line in which your kernel is being loaded, i.e.:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-amd64-generic root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet splash pci=noacpi

This line can typically be found close to the ## ## End Default Options ## tag.

III. PCMCIA network cards

For the FA511, get the FA511 Windows drivers from the Netgear webpage or from your driver CD. Unzip them to a local directory. Use ndisgtk to install them for ndiswrapper. The card will be identified as a WLAN device in the network setup, but is working perfectly. Just make sure you leave the fields for SSID and the WEP setup empty.

2. Netgear WG511 (WLAN)

If you use ndiswrapper, you have to prevent that the prism54 driver is being loaded at startup.

Add blacklist prism54 to your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.