Tag: T61

Thinkpad T61 Hardware Maintenance Manual

I thought I'd upload the hardware maintenance manual [PDF] for my Lenovo Thinkpad T61… Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 years ago, on January 31, 2013, at 14:01 | Comments closed

Gentoo update: WiFi drivers (iwl4965)

When I got the Wireless working on this laptop (a Lenovo T61), I was using Linux kernel 2.6.25. I remember that it was quite a pain, because the iwlwifi stuff had only just stabilized enough to replace the (now deprecated) ipw stuff. One of the things I didn't get working at the time was Monitor mode. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on June 11, 2009, at 11:06 | Comments closed

Gentoo update: e2fsprogs blocks e2fsprogs

Yesterday evening, I dropped by at Wiebe's with my laptop to start updating our Gentoo systems together. I hadn't updated this machine since first installing it in spring last year, so I expected quite a few problems. The first blockage that we both had to solve was caused by e2fsprogs. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on January 28, 2009, at 23:01 | 5 comments

My quest for the ultimate Bash prompt

On my new laptop (a Lenovo T61) I was still using the default Gentoo prompt in Bash. This was kind of a shame since my last Gentoo installation (on what is now my sister's Ubuntu machine) had a beautifully customized prompt. It was time to dig up the old escape codes. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on December 05, 2008, at 00:12 | 3 comments

Using Caps Lock as an extra Control key

With me mostly posting about computer stuff on this weblog, it might surprise you that, until May this year, I hadn't owned a personal computer in years while the last one that I did own was a slow pig grown from some old parts of an even slower pig and some second-hand replacements. So, you can image my joy when I got a shiny, new Lenovo Thinkpad 61 this spring. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on July 15, 2008, at 12:07 | 2 comments

My CD-RW drive can read everything it writes

The HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD drive in my Lenovo T61 laptop, has a certain peculiarity. I was burning an ISO image, wich exceeded the supported size of a standard 80 minute CD by 7 MB. (The image was 707 MB.) Using cdrecord with the -overburn option seemed to work, until I tried to mount the CD-ROM. It would inevitably— Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade ago, on July 14, 2008, at 18:07 | Comments closed