Vista on a T42

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Lauranmc · #1 Post by **Lauranmc** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:25 pm

I partitioned by 100mg hd and gave 25gb to Vista(evaluation copy rc1).......installed vista from boot of the dvd using a usb dvd drive(not within xp). It is running great. It seems as though I have everything working properly,didn't have to download any drivers from lenovo. Found my wireless network and connected as soon as I gave the code. I am going to play with it for awhile to see if I want to buy it when my evaluation runs out. So far everything works great.

zverg · #2 Post by **zverg** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:12 pm

- My wireless isn't working
- FN+Fx hotkeys aren't working (specifically the one to turn on the wireless antennas, F&)
- My "experience score" is a 2.. because of the ATI Radeon 9600pro.. gosh, I don't even wanna know what it's like with any of the other T42 video cards, the 9600/FireGL_T2 were the best offered!
- the thinkvantage software updater doesn't detect any vista drivers from lenovo, but plenty are on their site (except for my wifi card :'( )

yeah there's a lot of stuff that needs to be accomplished. Oh well, I'll just restart and boot back into arch linux which does eeeverything I need.

After disabling most of the stupid animations and crap that just wastes my time, it doesn't really seem much slower than xp.. but then again, I barely have any software installed yet (just firefox, clamwin, visio 2007, onenote 2007, opera, and some Lenovo drivers).

skanky · #3 Post by **skanky** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:41 pm

zverg wrote: - My "experience score" is a 2.. because of the ATI Radeon 9600pro.. gosh, I don't even wanna know what it's like with any of the other T42 video cards, the 9600/FireGL_T2 were the best offered!

you're lucky, installed it on my t41, no supported drivers for a 7500, so have to use a standard vga driver.

i get a 1.0 rating

Lauranmc · #4 Post by **Lauranmc** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:02 pm

That's one of the things I liked about it......it found my wireless network right away. I press FN + F5 and the wireless panel comes up. I wonder what is different with yours.

zverg · #5 Post by **zverg** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:02 pm

skanky wrote:
zverg wrote: - My "experience score" is a 2.. because of the ATI Radeon 9600pro.. gosh, I don't even wanna know what it's like with any of the other T42 video cards, the 9600/FireGL_T2 were the best offered!
you're lucky, installed it on my t41, no supported drivers for a 7500, so have to use a standard vga driver.

i get a 1.0 rating

oww.

Yeah I guess it could be worse.

Oh and my wireless works now that I plugged it in and ran windows update. Boo @ Lenovo not having them on their site where I can get to them.

zverg · #6 Post by **zverg** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:04 pm

Lauranmc wrote:That's one of the things I liked about it......it found my wireless network right away. I press FN + F5 and the wireless panel comes up. I wonder what is different with yours.

On your T42? Did you upgrade? I don't have Access Connections installed or anything, I did a clean install. They didn't say Access Connections was compatible so I didn't download it. I don't have any hotkeys right now

zverg · #7 Post by **zverg** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:06 pm

Lauranmc wrote:That's one of the things I liked about it......it found my wireless network right away. I press FN + F5 and the wireless panel comes up. I wonder what is different with yours.

Do you have the intel wireless or the ABG IBM Atheros card? I have the Atheros, Microsoft doesn't have the drivers for Atheros stuff

I gotta get the widcomm bluetooth stack too. I was using the Bluetooth II drivers with my Bluetooth III card.. the Microsoft stack is awful, they barely implemented anything.

Lauranmc · #8 Post by **Lauranmc** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:40 pm

came on with vista.....i never could get it to work with xp

zverg · #9 Post by **zverg** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:14 am

Access Connections for vista was released sometime this afternoon. I'm glad to have it back.. I was getting sick of manually launching my vpn client already haha.

Vista on a T42

Vista on a T42

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