Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote:
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>> Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41 and T42
>> notebooks on Ebay, which seem to be selling for a little more than $100 at
>> auction. These systems have 1.6GHz Pentium M CPUs, 512MB of RAM and 20GB
>> or 40GB hard drives, 14-inch SVGA 1024x768 screens, CD/DVD-writers and
>> built-in 56K modems, ethernet NICs, etc. Just big screen netbooks.
>>
>> Is anyone running Linux successfully on one of these older IBM
>> Thinkpad models? I'll be interested to hear about any experiences
>> and problems.
>
> Until my T41's fan died recently, I'd run both CentOS and Ubuntu on it
> with no real problems. I never used the modem, so I don't know whether
> it works under Linux or not.
Oh. I forgot that: pretty much no. It is one of the nasty software modems,
so theoretically you can run the slmodem stuff, but I never got it to work,
and it never really kept up with the steady march of time.
(As you might expect from a binary blob from a vendor, of course.)
Daniel
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