I installed Ubuntu on my Thinkpad last night.

So far, I’ve had some issues with it locking up completely when I leave it for a period. I think it might have to do with ACPI vs. APM, which worked fine under Debian but gives PCI errors on bootup with Ubuntu.

It’s GNOME 2.8 which I had under Sarge, and the wireless is only half working. I can see networks with Kismet but it doesn’t want to associate. That might be something else though, not the laptop.

I made some progress with Bluetooth - I can load the firmware for the dongle (I love that word) but it crashes out elsewhere. I think it’s a USB 2.0 vs 1.1 issue.

Even with these troubles, I’ll be keeping it.

Edit: 21/12/2004 - 12:55AM
The wireless is the router: rebooting it lets me connect now, with a 64bit WEP key. I am sure i used 128 before…

Edit: 21/12/2004 - 12:57AM
I can now use 128bit WEP :) Good ol’ power-cycle fixed the router. This firmware is actually not too stable. Might try out some more over the Christmas break.