Re: Bizzare crashes on IBM Thinkpad A22e

Tester
2001-08-31T16:49:13Z

Another thing,

Linuxcare has certified this laptop as being compatible with Linux 7.1
http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/ibm/thinkpad/A22e/pada22e-2655-rh7-sys.epl

Did they do something that I dont know of? Is there anyone left there?

Tester

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Sean Hunter wrote:

> <Possibly not relevant to your problem>

It is indeed not relevant.. I dont have any pcmcia card as there is an
integrated Network adapter... (Intel EEPro100)

> I have a thinkpad and had all sorts of wierd and unpredictable crashes until I
> removed the old 3com pcmcia network card and replaced it with a new cardbus
> card. The old card works fine in all sorts of other laptops, but the thinkpad
> just wasn't having it.
>
> Since replacing the card its worked great.
> </>
>
> Sean
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:30:27PM -0400, Tester wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Its a 256 megs machine.. Celeron 800..
> > I tried using mem=255M or mem=200M and it did not change anything and
> > still crashed. The celeron A22e seems to have the same bios as the A21e...
> >
> > Btw, I received it as part of a ThinkPad University program (laptop at
> > school) from IBM with the old mandrake installed. And they IS guy of the
> > university told us that they didnt install the latest released because IBM
> > had not approved it... IBM probably already knows of the problem... So a
> > message to IBM and IBMers: Why dont you fix your known bugs?
> >
> > Also it works correctly in w2k, but win2k uses ACPI and not APM (and it
> > has a IBM pm driver...)
> >
> > Tester
> > tester@videotron.ca
> >
>

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