2003-10-11
"After a lot of work my shiny new IBM R40e is up and running with almost working ACPI, internal network adapter and a 3Com 54g wireless PCMCIA card, all on Gentoo Linux.
A Mini HOWTO:
Get an old PCMCIA card for the installation as the internal network adapter is not supported by the Live-CD I choose the Gentoo Stable kernel which is working great Do not enable PCMCIA in the kernel, emerge the pcmcia-cs package instead for continued setting up of the system."
2003-10-03
"I got myself a new laptop the other day, a IBM T40e. It has a pretty good price performance with a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4M. While researching the laptop market it occured to me that most resellers still has not understoiod the difference between Centrino, Pentium 4M and Pentium 4. The vendor I choose happily listed the T40e as a P4 even though it in fact is a P4M.
As a Gentoo fanatic I put the Live CD in an booted - no network."