06.18.06
Installing Dapper Drake on a Thinkpad x31
So, I recently upgraded to Dapper on my thinkpad laptop. Everything seems to work now, but I had some major problems when installing it from the docking station. When I installed Dapper using the dvd-drive in the docking station, it couldn’t mount the root partition unless it was connected to the docking station. When attached to the docking station, everything worked fine. There are a bunch of proposed solutions to things of this nature, but all involve recompiling the kernel and I just didn’t want to do that. Instead, I reinstalled Breezy and upgraded it. The only problem now is that I can’t get the docking station to work. All the old fixes for getting the middle button to scroll and such still work and NetworkManager is integrated much better into Gnome. To get my wireless card (Linksys) I had to blacklist the built-in driver (which doesn’t work).