Installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T410

This article describes the installation of Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit) on a Thinkpad T410 type 2522-3FG (with nVidia graphics card).

Hardware Support Details

Works with limitations

• Intel Gigabit Ethernet Controller PCI-Express only uses 10Mb/s (full duplex) by default, a higher rate is possible with manual configuration: # ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

Works out-of-the-box

• Audio
• DVD burner
• card reader, tested with 8 GB SD card

Works with additional configuration

• nVidia NVS 3100m Graphics: install restricted drivers to get better colors
• 4 GB memory: the default kernel (linux-generic) only uses 3 GB memory, with the linux-generic-pae kernel $ cat /proc/meminfo shows MemTotal: 3977248 kB

Untested

The remaining devices (like webcam, etc.) are currently not tested.

Additional information

• http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=84662