Pleh

Volker Braun has been working on a series of Linux kernels for T4x Thinkpads. They enable ACPI, software suspend to disk, and the IPW2100/2200 wireless devices and — bonus! — they work. (At least, they work on a T40 Thinkpad with FC4 and the IPW fireware installed. YMMV) I’ve been very happy with them, but have to recompile to make a minor configuration tweak. I like to have the ibm_acpi module compiled as a module so that I can enable the experimental options. (In Volker’s version, it’s compiled into the kernel.)

Today, I discovered another tweak I needed to make. I was suffering /sitting through my Nth IPv6 conference, when I decided to see if I could set up IPv6 connectivity over the wireless offered in the conference room. I had done it a while ago, got the dancing turtle, then decided I wanted to connect to other sites and went back to IPv4. When I tried to insert the IPv6 module into the kernel, I found that Volker doesn’t configure in IPv6.

Since this was a little more complex than just changing a configuration option that’s already there, I now present Voker’s kernel with IPv6 and ibm_acpi compiled as a module. Here are the pre-compiled i686 binaries…

kernel-T4x-2.6.14.3-4pt3.i686.rpm

kernel-T4x-ipw2100-2.6.14.3-4pt3.i686.rpm

kernel-T4x-ipw2200-2.6.14.3-4pt3.i686.rpm

…and here’s the SRPM for your own RPM-compiling fun.

kernel-T4x-2.6.14.3-4pt3.src.rpm

Thanks to Volker for putting this all together.