Ethan Dicks wrote: That's odd. I installed Fedora 7 on my T42, and it 'just worked'. All the hardware, from the display to the modem and wireless LAN adapter works perfectly. It's the first laptop I've had that didn't need a special utility to change the power management mode - KPowerSave can do it itself. Very neat. It didn't work completely out of the box, but once I'd set up yum-priorities, the Livna and FreshRPMS repositories, SLModem and MadWiFi, 95% of the hardware worked fine. An hour or so of tweaking and *everything* worked. FWIW, mine's a Type 2373-Q91 -- Atheros AR5212 wireless card, 14.1" 1024x768 LCD, Radeon 7500 graphics (old enough to work with the 'radeon' driver and not require the abomination that is fglrx), 1.8GHz Pentium-M. Pretty standard laptop, really... Maybe RHEL4 is just a little too old for the T42? -- Phil. | (\_/) This is Bunny. Copy and paste Bunny classiccmp at philpem.me.uk | (='.'=) into your signature to help him gain http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | (")_(") world domination.

Ethan Dicks wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Found the problem! Redhat Enterprise is not for workstations no matter what the "WS" stands for. Practically anything else -- ubuntu, Fedore Core, etc. are better and "just work". -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/