Date of writing: October 28, 2004
There are a lot of different IBM Thinkpad A21m. This is a
Type 2628 - G1G, 800 MHZ Pentium III, 20 GB HDD, 128 MB RAM.
Things working fine:
Screen 1024*768, APM, Sound also with special sound keys, diskette drive, HDD, DVD-ROM,
external PS/2 (Microsoft Inteli ;-) ) mouse, external serial modem Elsa Microlink Fun,
USB 1 memory stick, parallel printer connection (tested with HP Deskjet 960c), external
PCMCIA ethernet adapter
Things which I could not get working:
Internal Modem, internal 10/100 Mbit ethernet adapter, external USB typhoon red fun modem,
external monitor
Problems:
Trackpoint: Probably only a configuraton problem. It was working fine together with USB mouse
on Knoppix 3.6
A more detailed description will follow....
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