Hello,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Shrihari Gopalakrishna wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I had SL40rolling (and updated to SL4.1 as per instructions on this list) on 
> an IBM Thinkpad T42 and would appreciate any help on getting the following 
> working: (I am new to linux setup)

Try googling for "linux ibm thinkpad t42". You'll get pages and pages of 
useful links to bits and pieces of information and software. Put it all 
together, and most of what you want will work. It's no easier than that, 
I'm afraid.

> 1) In (KDE) Control_Center->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard_Layout there is 
> no selection for IBM Thinkpad T42.
> (There is a selection however for IBM Thinkpad 560Z/600/600E/A22E). Is any 
> functionality lost because of this?
>
> 2) None of the Fn-keys work. It will be nice to have the following working: * 
> Video output switcher (Fn-F7) (for hooking up to a projector) * Wireless 
> on/off (Fn-F5) * Suspend to RAM (Fn-F3). Also nice would be: * Sleep (Fn-F4) 
> * Suspend to disk (Fn-F12). In case I can't get these "buttons" to work, is 
> there a way to do these tasks manually?
>
> 3) Pressing the middle (mouse) button above the touchpad and moving the 
> trackpoint is supposed to scroll pages (it does in Windows). How does one get 
> this working?

To get more out of your touchpad, look into the docs for the synpatics 
package coming with SL4. This one is simple, and you may find that there 
are even more convenient ways to scroll.

> 4)  A general wireless question: Is there someway to switch easily between 
> wireless settings when I move from place to place (from home to work and back 
> etc). I think right now I have to edit info in System_settings->Network 
> (system-config-network) for it to work. There is something called "profile" 
> in system-config-network - is this supposed to enable easy switching between 
> access points?

There's one feature of system-config-network-cmd I came across by chance:
You can feed it lines like

   'DeviceList.Wireless.eth1.Wireless.EssId=MY-ESSID'
   'DeviceList.Wireless.eth1.Wireless.Key=0x...'

on stdin. I think that's the most convenient way to switch between a 
number of configurations.

Cheers,
 	Stephan

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