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any issues? debian?

#1 Post by duke1 » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:23 pm

does everything work out of the box under debian? on the t60 or t61 ? Like wifi?
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Re: any issues? debian?

#2 Post by Neil » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:57 pm

I've never used pure Debian on a T60, but have used a couple of Debian based distros and seems everything worked just fine. I only run into problems when I try installing today's OS on a ten year old ThinkPad.

You do know you can boot the live CD to check all this stuff before you install, right?
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Re: any issues? debian?

#3 Post by ThinkRob » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:28 am

duke1 wrote:does everything work out of the box under debian? on the t60 or t61 ? Like wifi?
Pretty much. You'll need to install the firmware for your wireless card if you have an Intel card (thank you lawyers...) -- but that just takes a couple clicks.
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Re: any issues? debian?

#4 Post by ozzymud » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:31 am

A lot of Ubuntu things apply to vanilla Debian, thinkwiki links to a nice post on Ubuntu 10.10 on the T60...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10428211
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