Installing Debian 4.1 on a ThinkPad T61p
A short guide to get you working with X, Wireless intel 4965, and sound.
I installed the Debian Etch 4.1 release and thereafter edited the /etc/apt/sources.list. Replaced etch with testing and there after apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.
Install the linux-image-2.6.22-5-i686 and the linux-headers-image-2.6.22-5-i686 then reboot to reflect the changes and load the new kernel.
X:
Download NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.07-pkg1.run from Nvidia sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.07-pkg1.run and follow the instructions
Wireless:
iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44-17.tgz
mac80211-8.0.2.tgz
iwlwifi-1.0.0-1.tgz
unpack the above files eg. tar xzvf <filename>
From iwllwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17
cp iwlwifi-4965.ucode /lib/firmware
From mac80211-8.0.2 make patch_kernel
From iwlwifi-1.0.0.1
make
make install
./load debug=0
iwconfig (Wlan0 should now be available to you)
Sound
There is a bug in the kernel which silences the output from your speakers. To fix this, run the following userspace program as root. Do a google on "t61_audio_hack.py" thanks to Andrew Clunis
Save the following to a file eg t61p_sound.py and run it as root $ sh t61p_sound.py
#!/usr/bin/env python KIOCSOUND = 0x4B2F import fcntl, sys import time # Do a constant beep. # Reset the beep every five seconds, in case it is cleared by another program. while(True): fd = open("/dev/console") fcntl.ioctl(fd, KIOCSOUND, 500) fd.close()
