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2.6 Kernel

Finally I got the 2.6 kernel going on my Thinkpad T21 laptop. Things are working great. Here are some tips and links:

  • Get your ACPI working: Tips (I have to say, on my Thinkpad T21, things don't fully work yet. It goes to sleep, but waking it up is not always very smooth!

    Somehow my swap was not working anymore. What I had to do was a: 
      mkswap /dev/hda5
swapon -a
  • I am kind of struggling with ALSA support. 
    alsaconf
    helps to set it up, but everytime I reboot, I need to rerun it to make sound work. No clue why.

    Call me brave (includs the new directory indexing feature into ext3 FSes): 
      tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hda3
    I have not tried the IPSec that's built into the kernel, but here is some info: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.ipsec.html and http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/freeswan/

    A good list of changes


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