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Ubuntu & Thinkpad T43

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Thread Starter 
Im pressed for time folks so please excuse me.

Anybody here have their Thinkpad T43 fully functioning under this OS?

List of things that don't work - what would you recommend?

1) Wireless - Atheros IBM ABG II
2) Trackpad scroll button (the middle one)
3) Forward and Backward browser buttons (located just above the right and left arrow buttons.)

#2 and #3 I figure maybe they could be somewhat new and they probably don't have a driver for it yet, but I seem to recall the wireless eventually working for TP owners. Not sure though. Plus, these are the things that Ive noticed so far after about little over a month's time.. there maybe be more but I haven't found any other problems yet.

Everything else pretty much works like a dream... so far I think this is the best distro of Linux to work for me on a laptop yet.





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For the wireless:
http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/

Ubuntu seems to be lacking in its wireless drivers, as I had to build and install the rt2x00 drivers for Hoary.
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Thread Starter 
Thanks Colin. Appreciated.




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Number 2 I cant help you right off right off hand, but if you google it you should find a solution for it, it should be supported I believe.

Number 3 could be as simple as making sure that those keys are actually mapped to something, as by default they probably arent recognized since they are oddball keys. I think there is a program called ACME in Gnome that makes this a bit easy, but I honestly dont remember if that is the name or not. Again googling it probably wouldnt be a bad idea, look around for programming hotkeys.

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